2015/16 to 2024/25 Annual summary statistics
Date of notice: 23 October 2025
An error was identified in table 20 of the supporting summary tables for this release.
For financial years 2022/23, 2023/24, and 2024/25 application decisions across all localities were incorrectly reported as granted. This affected the following categories:
- Application granted
- Application refused
- Appeal withdrawn - application granted
- Appeal withdrawn - application refused
The data in table 20 has now been corrected. There are no changes to the key findings of this release.
We apologies for any inconvenience caused.
2015/16 to 2021/22 Annual summary statistics
Date of notice: 4 October 2023
It's been identified that an error was made in this release when gathering the data for the last 3 months of 2021/22. This has resulted in double counting for some advanced services for those months and inflated figures for this financial year 2021/22.
This has affected the charts and commentary in the Advanced Services section of the statistical summary narrative from figure 14 to figure 20, as well as the figures in accompanying summary tables for 2021/22.
Several services are affected. These include the total cost of:
- Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) (GBP)
- provision of Hepatitis C testing service and Test Kit reimbursement (GBP)
- set up and service fees of Hypertension service (GBP)
- Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) drugs (GBP)
- COVID-19 Test Kit set up fees, Test Kit fees and related costs (GPB)
- pharmacies providing COVID-19 vaccinations (GPB)
- pharmacies claiming COVID-19 premises and refrigeration costs (GPB)
Also affected are the total amount of:
- all Appliance Use Reviews (AURs) including home and premises
- fees received for CPCS (GBP)
- home deliveries and the total costs (GBP)
The costs in the summary tables were inflated by approximately 20% and the volume figures by just under 10% except from Hepatitis C testing and Hypertension services. As these services were introduced in 2021/22 they had higher volumes processed in the later part of the year, and these costs for these services were inflated by an average of over 70%.
The corrected figures can be found in the General Pharmaceutical Services – England 2015/16 to 2022/23 Annual summary statistics due for publication on 12 October 2023.
There is no change to the key findings of this release.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.