Jackson Carlaw
Conservative
Question S3W-33736
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people (a) under and (b) over 18 years of age are on anticoagulation therapy, broken down by NHS board.
Shona Robison
Scottish National Party
The numbers of patients receiving these medicines are not centrally available. However, the number of prescriptions for anticoagulants are available and he following table shows the numbers of items prescribed in Scotland during the financial year ending 31 March 2008 to 2009 inclusive, by NHS board.
Table 1. Numbers of items prescribed in Scotland during the financial year ending 31 March 2008 to 2009 inclusive, by NHS board:
| Health Board | Exemption Group1 | ||
| 18 or under | Over 18 | Total | |
| NHS Ayrshire and Arran | 183 | 49,997 | 50,180 |
| NHS Borders | 55 | 22,901 | 22,956 |
| NHS Dumfries and Galloway | 69 | 29,408 | 29,477 |
| NHS Fife | 133 | 41,179 | 41,312 |
| NHS Forth Valley | 190 | 42,057 | 42,247 |
| NHS Grampian | 217 | 74,660 | 74,877 |
| NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 642 | 153,082 | 153,724 |
| NHS Highland | 203 | 60,418 | 60,621 |
| NHS Lanarkshire | 386 | 73,914 | 74,300 |
| NHS Lothian | 268 | 75,969 | 76,237 |
| NHS Orkney | 32 | 3,522 | 3,554 |
| NHS Shetland | 12 | 4,677 | 4,689 |
| NHS Tayside | 137 | 59,725 | 59,862 |
| NHS Western Isles | 8 | 7,215 | 7,223 |
| Total | 2,535 | 698,724 | 701,259 |
Source: Information Services Division Scotland. 1. Where "under 16 years of age", "16 to 18 and in full-time education" box has been checked. For the over 18, this is the total of all other exemption categories and includes charged prescriptions.
For the over 18, this is the total of all other exemption categories and includes charged prescriptions. British National Formulary sub sections 020801 (parenteral anticoagulants) and 020802 (Oral anticoagulants).
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