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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 10 September 2020 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…

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 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 6 October 2022 Summary This publication aims to describe the prescribing of hormone replacement therapy medications in a primary care setting in England that are dispensed in the community. This does not include data on medicines used in…

Published 9 March 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 in the…

Published 17 October 2024. Publication Hormone Replacement Therapy - England April 2015 to June 2024 statistical summary narrative (HTML) Summary This publication aims to describe the prescribing of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) medications…

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…

The following correction notices have been made with regard to Medicines Used in Mental Health for England 2015/16 to 2023/24 publication Date of notice: 27 June 2025: The column names for identified patients and total prescribed items were…

Published 10 December 2020 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…