Health written question – answered at on 11 February 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health
(1) what percentage of all prescriptions issued (a) in England and (b) in each primary care trust area have been dispensed in instalments through repeat dispensing in each of the last two years;
(2) what proportion of prescription items were dispensed through repeat dispensing arrangements (a) in England and (b) in each primary care trust area in the latest year for which figures are available.
Information is not held on the number of prescriptions issued, only on the number issued and then dispensed.
In 2007 the proportion of all items prescribed in the community in England and dispensed in the United Kingdom through repeat dispensing arrangements was 1.4 per cent. of all items dispensed, taken from the Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) system database. Figures for individual primary care trusts in the same period are taken from the Prescribing Analysis and CosT tool (PACT) system and have been placed in the Library.
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