Antidepressants: Harlow
(asked on 26th September 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prescriptions were issued for antidepressant medication in Harlow constituency in each of the last 10 years.
Information is not available in the format requested. The following table shows numbers of prescriptions issued for antidepressant medication for West Essex Primary Care Trust (PCT) from 2010-11 to 2012-13 and for West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) for 2013-14. Data is not available at constituency level or prior to 2010-11.
Numbers of antidepressant prescription items written in the specified organisations and dispensed in the community by the specified financial years | ||||
Year | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012/13 | 2013-14 |
West Essex PCT | 233,181 | 252,536 | 258,873 | - |
West Essex CCG | - | - | - | 274,969 |
Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre Prescribing Analysis and CosT tool (PACT) system
Notes:
1. The data in the table relate to prescriptions of items from the British National Formulary (BNF) section 4.3.
2. The data available in PACT is a rolling 60-month dataset, so only the number of prescriptions in the last four full financial years is available.
3. PACT covers prescriptions prescribed by GPs, nurses, pharmacists and others in England and dispensed in the community in the UK. For data at PCT level, prescriptions written by a prescriber located in a particular PCT but dispensed outside that PCT will be included in the PCT in which the prescriber is based. Prescriptions written in England but dispensed outside England are included.
4. Prescriptions written in hospitals/clinics that are dispensed in the community, prescriptions dispensed in hospitals, dental prescribing and private prescriptions are not included in PACT data. It is important to note this as some BNF sections have a high proportion of prescriptions written in hospitals that are dispensed in the community including, for example, BNF chapter 4, Central Nervous System. These prescriptions are not included in PACT data.
5. Prescriptions are written on a prescription form known as a FP10. Each single item written on the form is counted as a prescription item.
6. The PACT system uses the therapeutic classifications defined in the BNF. Information on why a drug is prescribed is not available in this dataset. Since drugs can be prescribed to treat more than one condition, it may not be possible to separate the different conditions for which a drug may have been prescribed.