Diabetes
(asked on 2nd February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the annual cost of providing insulin to people diagnosed with diabetes.
This question was answered on 5th February 2015
In 2013-14, the latest year available, the net ingredient cost of insulin dispensed in primary care was £328.3 million and in secondary care the cost was £8.1 million. Insulin has been defined as all medicines included in British National Formulary section 6.1.1 Insulins.