Thank you for your request for information about the following:    Further to this request, can you also tell me how many patients have received prescriptions for unlicensed cannabis-based products for medicinal use, both NHS and private, each month since November 2018?   Your request was received on 2 August 2023, and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.   

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://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01304

Private Patients

We cannot accurately provide private patient count information as this is not routinely captured for private prescriptions. This data would require an additional process to capture this information which is currently not possible.

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

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01352

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