Semaglutide
(asked on 3rd February 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of demand for Ozempic on the NHS.
The following table, while not reflecting demand, does provide the total number of Ozempic injections that were dispensed under the National Health Service in England, prescribed each year from January 2019 to November 2024:
Year | Number of injections dispensed |
2019 | 111,388 |
2020 | 420,998 |
2021 | 747,205 |
2022 | 1,155,174 |
2023 | 1,174,806 |
2024 | 794,729 |
Total | 4,404,302 |
The Prescription Cost Analysis data release gives items and quantities of each medicine dispensed in the community in England.