Request

Please could you give me the figures for the number of prescriptions for Ritalin and other drugs prescribed for ADHD to children and those aged 18-24 years old?

An understanding of how these figures have changed over the last 10 years and 20 years would be very helpful too.

Could you also give me the data for anti-depressant prescriptions to children and young adults and how this has changed over the same period?

Date Range: 05/04/2003 -05/04/2023

Response

Under Section 21 of the Act, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you. The information you requested is available via the link below. This is to our Medicines used in Mental Health stats:

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/medicines-used-mental-health-england

Please note this information is from 2015 only as patient identifiable information was not available prior to this date.

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://applications.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/FOI/foiRequestDetail.do?bo_id=01267