Keith Vaz – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2016-09-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS spent on drugs related to diabetes in the most recent year for which figures are available.
David Mowat
In the 2015/16 financial year, the total net ingredient cost of prescription items prescribed in England and dispensed in the community in the United Kingdom for drugs listed within trhe British National Formulary section 6.1 “Drugs used in diabetes”(using the classification system prior to edition 70), was £956.7 million1.
1Source: Prescriptions for Diabetes, England 2005/06 to 2015/16, NHS Digital
http://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB21158/pres-diab-eng-200506-201516.pdf
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