Thyroid Gland: Medical Treatments
(asked on 31st October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients are receiving natural desiccated thyroid on NHS prescription.
Information is not collected centrally on the number of people prescribed medicines. Information is available on the number of prescription items dispensed for desiccated thyroid.
The number of Levothyroxine Sodium and Liothyronine prescription items written in the United Kingdom and dispensed in the community in England in 2015, by drug name 1 | |
Drug | Items (000’s) |
Armour Thyroid | 3.8 |
Efra Thyroid | 0.5 |
Levothyrox/Liothyronine | 0.1 |
Nature Thyroid | 0.2 |
WP Thyroid | - 2 |
Total 3 | 4.6 |
Source: Prescription Cost Analysis system data provided by NHS Digital
Notes:
1 Desiccated thyroids are a combination product which contain the active ingredients ‘levothyroxine sodium & liothyronine’ which are both thyroid hormones. Different brands and strengths of desiccated thyroids are currently prescribed in England.
2 Less than 50 prescription items dispensed.
3 Total figure may not sum due to rounding.