The PCA release is an Official Statistic with National Statistic designation.
The lowest granularity of data in the publication for both financial and calendar year is added here. PCA contains information on all prescription items dispensed in England and submitted to the NHSBSA for reimbursement.
PCA provides details of the costs and volumes of all prescriptions dispensed in the community in England. Data relating to medicines supplied as the Pharmacy First Clinical Pathways advanced service have been included in this publication.
The full statistical release, including more information on what the statistics contain, can be found on our website and you can specifically read the Prescription Cost Analysis
Background Information and Methodology to understand more about the data.
Notices
12 July 2023
It was identified that data had been assigned to the incorrect SNOMED code in the Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) Annual Statistics data release for Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) - Financial Year 2022/23. This is due to products being assigned the pack level SNOMED code in March instead of the product level SNOMED code.
This issue has now been fixed and the correct data for Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) - Financial Year 2022/23 is now available from this page
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