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Published 12 October 2023 Summary Community pharmacies and appliance contractors are responsible for dispensing medications, appliances, and medical devices to NHS patients. They are not a direct part of the NHS but provide essential services on…

Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) is an accredited official statistic release. It provides details of the number of items and the Net Ingredient Cost (NIC) of all prescriptions dispensed in the community in England. As well as the annual PCA…

Published 11 August 2022. Summary Diabetes features as one of the priorities for care and quality outcomes in the NHS Long Term Plan. This publication aims to describe the prescribing of medicines and appliances used for the treatment of diabetes…

Published 19 November 2020. Summary Community pharmacies and appliance contractors are responsible for dispensing medications, appliances, and medical devices to NHS patients. They are not a direct part of the NHS but provide essential services on…

Published 10 November 2022 Summary This publication aims to explore the costs of medicines prescribed within both primary and secondary care in England. This publication is an experimental Official Statistic release. Its produced in line with the…

Published 9 November 2023 Summary  This publication aims to explore the costs of medicines prescribed within both primary and secondary care in England. This publication is an experimental Official Statistic release. it's produced in line with…

Correction notice – Data for some advanced services were aggregated incorrectly resulting in inflated figures for this release Read our correction notices page for full details. Published 13 October 2022 Summary Community pharmacies and…

Misinterpreting active community pharmacies We have been made aware that our headline figure for active community pharmacies can be misinterpreted. We would like to draw your attention to some important information for this figure. When a…

Published 28 October 2021. Summary Community pharmacies and appliance contractors are responsible for dispensing medications, appliances, and medical devices to NHS patients. They are not a direct part of the NHS but provide essential services on…

It has been identified that a column, Standard Quantity Unit, was omitted from the presentation level tables of the latest release. This affects Table 5 (Presentations) in the Prescription Cost Analysis 2019 – Statistical summary tables [Excel: 3.…