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Publication, Part of Prescribing Costs in Hospitals and the Community
Hospital Prescribing - England, 2009
Official statistics- Publication Date:
- 29 Oct 2010
- Geographic Coverage:
- England
- Geographical Granularity:
- Regions, Country, Strategic Health Authorities
- Date Range:
- 01 Jan 2009 to 31 Dec 2009
Summary
This report describes use of drugs in hospitals in England in 2009. In order to put this use in context it also shows use in primary care and where a prescription was written in hospital but dispensed in the community.
Highlights
- The overall NHS expenditure on medicines in 2009 was £12.3 billion
- In 2009 hospital use accounted for 30.9 per cent of the total cost, up from 28.8 per cent in 2008
- The cost of medicines rose by 5.6 per cent overall but by 13.2 per cent in hospitals
- Of the drugs positively appraised by NICE, the greatest overall cost was for atorvastatin but etanercept incurred the greatest cost in hospitals
- The route by which patients receive drugs for dementia varies between Strategic Health Authorities. For example, in 2009 the proportion of drugs for dementia (measured in Defined Daily Doses) used in hospitals ranged from 4.1 per cent to 24.2 per cent.
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