Health written question – answered at on 13 November 2001.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the level of spending against their drugs budget by (a) PCTs and (b) health authorities this year.
holding answer
Health authorities and primary care trusts are responsible for setting primary care drugs budgets; decisions on the level of funding will depend on local priorities.
Forecasts of prescribing expenditure are provided to health authorities and PCTs and groups and it is for them to monitor this against their prescribing budgets. Prescribing budgets notified to the Department do not include any contingency reserves held locally.
We do take account of prescribing trends and other influencing factors in primary care prescribing when considering the overall levels of allocations that are made to health authorities. The latest national forecast for 2001–02 prescribing expenditure represents a 9.2 per cent. growth on 2000–01 out-turn.
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