Request

Please can you provide the overall total of items dispensed per year, broken down per year for the last 5 years?

Are you also able to identify the total number of items that were paid for, from the total items dispensed per year, for the last 5 years?

Finally is there anywhere else I'd be able to request the overall total of items prescribed please?

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 from web link:

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/prescription-cost-analysis-england/prescription-cost-analysis-england-202223

To locate the data you are requesting, please head to the section titled “Resource List” and chose the link for “Additional Tables”.

The information you require on chargeable and exempt items is held on “Table A4: Total items and cost by charge status, 2014/2015 to 2022/2023”

Data regarding the total of items prescribed can be found in Table A1, although this only covers the sum of the exempt and charged items covered in Table A4.