Health written question – answered at on 12 September 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much money was spent on prescriptions by eachprimary care trust in Lancashire in each year since 1997.
The information is not available in the requested format. However, data for 2000–01 to 2003–04 are shown in the table. Primary care trusts (PCTs) were not in existence prior to 2000–01 and 2003–04 is the latest year for which figures are available.
Figures are taken from the audited summarisation schedules (accounts) of the relevant PCTs. Relevant PCTs are taken as being those within the current Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic Health Authority (SHA) area.
Data shown is prescribing costs", which is the total cost relating to prescribing by general practitioners within the PCT area, from the unified budget.
PCT | 2000–01 | 2001–02 | 2002–03 | 2003–04 |
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Blackburn with Darwen PCT | 8,574 | 18,969 | 21,105 | 22,899 |
Blackpool PCT | n/a | n/a | 24,452 | 26,307 |
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale PCT | n/a | n/a | 36,504 | 39,754 |
Carlisle and District PCT | n/a | 13,842 | 16,088 | 17,917 |
Chorley and South Ribble PCT | n/a | 24,169 | 27,925 | 30,675 |
Eden Valley PCT | n/a | 8,049 | 9,400 | 10,277 |
Fylde PCT | n/a | n/a | 11,796 | 12,651 |
Hyndburn and Ribble Valley PCT | n/a | n/a | 16,637 | 18,015 |
Morecambe Bay PCT | n/a | 40,896 | 45,551 | 48,946 |
Preston PCT | n/a | n/a | 19,705 | 21,879 |
West Cumbria PCT | n/a | 17,708 | 20,298 | 22,424 |
West Lancashire PCT | n/a | 12,834 | 14,120 | 15,545 |
Wyre PCT | n/a | n/a | 21,301 | 22,342 |
Notes:
1.'Prescribing costs' is the total cost relating to prescribing by GPs within the area accounted for by the PCT.
2.'n/a' indicates that a PCT was not in existence in that year.
Sources:
Audited summarisation schedules of the above PCTs 2000–01 to 2003–04.
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