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Published 4 March 2021 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 the…

Published 10 June 2021. Summary Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) provides details of the number of items and the Net Ingredient Cost (NIC) of all prescriptions dispensed in the community in England. We consulted on the content and methodology…

Published 7 March 2024 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 the…

Published 5 December 2024. 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…

Correction notice - data was assigned to incorrect Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) deciles in the statistical summary tables of the latest release. Read our correction notices page for full details. Published 7 July 2022. This page was last…

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…

This page was last reviewed and updated 26 March 2021. Feedback We asked We invited feedback on our proposed plans to make changes to the underlying methodology used in the Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) – England National Statistics…

This page was last reviewed and updated on Monday 28 April 2025. This calendar lists upcoming statistics which we'll produce. It lists publication dates for these statistics, month by month for the next 12 months. Where the state is marked as…

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…

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…