Pain: Females
(asked on 24th May 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were prescribed GnRH analogue treatment by the NHS in each of the last five years.
The following table provided by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA), shows the number of people prescribed GnRH analogue treatment by the National Health Service in England in a primary care setting. Figures are provided for the last three years as patient information for prescribing is only available from April 2015 onwards.
Number of patients receiving prescriptions for drugs identified as "GnRH Analogue Treatment | ||
Financial Year | Number of identified patients | Proportion of prescription items where the patient could be identified |
April 2015 - March 2016 | 128,524 | 94.88% |
April 2016 - March 2017 | 130,238 | 95.75% |
April 2017 - March 2018 | 131,178 | 96.33% |
Note:
Care should be taken when interpreting the patient counts as some patients could appear in the results for multiple time periods. Therefore, the patient numbers should not be combined and reported at any other levels than as provided in the dataset.
NHS numbers are not captured for every prescription and hence the NHS BSA has included the number of patients who could be identified along with the proportion of applicable prescription items for which the patient data could be identified.