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Cost of hospital prescriber FP10HP for acute trust in Dorset Between 2022 and 2025 I would be grateful if you could provide the Prescription Pricing Authority's figures for the number and value of FP10HP prescriptions dispensed in the community for the following trusts in Dorset (University Hospitals Dorset) Poole Hospital, Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Christchurch Hospital.

On 27 May 2025 you clarified the following:

I would like the number of items dispensed in the community and the associated net ingredient cost (which I assume includes the dispensing fee) charged to the trust from FP10s written by prescribers within the trust. Please aggregate by month.

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 22 April 2025.

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Our response

I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds the information you have requested and a copy of the information is attached.

Please read the below notes to ensure correct understanding of the data.

Total number of items, and associated Actual Cost (£), for prescriptions prescribed in Hospital Trusts and dispensed within the community.

NHSBSA

NHS Prescription Services process prescriptions for Pharmacy Contractors, Appliance Contractors, Dispensing Doctors and Personal Administration with information then used to make payments to pharmacists and appliance contractors in England for prescriptions dispensed in primary care settings (other arrangements are in place for making payments to Dispensing Doctors and Personal Administration). This involves processing over 1 billion prescription items and payments totalling over £9 billion each year. The information gathered from this process is then used to provide information on costs and trends in prescribing in England and Wales to over 25,000 registered NHS and Department of Health and Social Care users.

Data Source: ePACT2

Data in ePACT2 is sourced from the NHSBSA Data Warehouse and is derived from products prescribed on prescriptions and dispensed in the Community. The data captured from prescription processing is used to calculate reimbursement and remuneration. It includes items prescribed in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Guernsey / Alderney, Jersey, and Isle of Man which have been dispensed in the community in England. English prescribing that has been dispensed in Wales, Scotland, Guernsey / Alderney, Jersey, and Isle of Man is also included.

The Data excludes:

• Items not dispensed, disallowed and those returned to the contractor for further clarification.

• Prescriptions prescribed and dispensed in Prisons, Hospitals and Private prescriptions.

• Items prescribed but not presented for dispensing or not submitted to NHS Prescription Services by the dispenser.

Time Period:

Monthly data for January 2022-March 2025. March 2025 is currently the most recent month of prescribing data available.

Organisation Data:

The data is for items prescribed by hospitals within the University Hospitals Dorset and The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trusts and dispensed within the community.

A date with the letter 'C' in brackets - example (C 01-May-23) against Trust Name indicates that this organisation is closed as of the date stated.

Items:

Shows the number of times a product appears on a prescription form not the quantity prescribed.

Actual Cost (£)

From April 2024 onwards Actual Cost is based on the Net Ingredient Cost of the item(s) supplied, less the appropriate discount rate of the prescribed product plus Payment for Consumables, Out of Pocket Expenses and Payment for Containers.

Before this date the actual cost was the basic price of the drug less the National Average Discount Percentage (NADP) plus Payment for Consumables, Out of Pocket Expenses and Payment for Containers (10p for splitting packs).

Data Queries

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http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

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