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Published 6 March 2025. Summary Mental health is a key area of the NHS Long Term Plan published in 2019. This publication aims to describe the prescribing of medicines used to improve mental health in England that are subsequently dispensed in…

Published 8 September 2022 Summary This publication aims to describe the prescribing of dependency forming medicines in a primary care setting in England that are dispensed in the community. This does not include data on medicines used in…

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…

This page was last reviewed and updated 19 June 2024. Official Statistics guidance table View our Official Statistics guidance table (ODT: 69KB) to see comparability criteria amongst our publications. Prescribing and dispensing Dependency…

Correction notice - model of expected items based on pre-pandemic prescribing trends was trained incorrectly in this release. Read our correction notices page for more details. Published 6 July 2023 This page was last reviewed and updated 15…

Published 14 September 2023 Summary Mental health is a key area of the NHS Long Term Plan published in 2019. This publication aims to describe the prescribing of medicines used to improve mental health in England that are subsequently dispensed…

Background In December 2011, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) set out plans to support the development, adoption and spread of innovation in the NHS. It published a report titled 'Innovation, Health and Wealth, accelerating adoption…

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…

This page was last reviewed and updated on 26 October 2022. Several of our publications hold National Statistics status. National Statistics status means that a publication meets the highest standards of trustworthiness, quality, and public value…

Correction notice: a total cost figure for hypnotics and anxiolytics has been corrected. The total cost figure in the 'Summary' section of the hypnotics and anxiolytics summary narrative HTML file was corrected on 2 December 2024. This was due to…