Antibiotics

(asked on 22nd November 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Tim Farron Portrait
Tim Farron
(Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the level of antibiotics use has been in each year since 2000.

Answered by
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford Portrait
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
This question was answered on 30th November 2016

Public Health England (PHE) was established in 2013. Data collected by PHE since 2013 along with data collected by the Health Protection Agency from 2010-12 can be found in table 1.

Table 1: Total antibiotic consumption, expressed as Defined Daily Dose (DDD) per 1,000 inhabitants per day, England, 2010-2015

DDD per 1,000 inhabitants per day

Setting

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

General Practice

15.7

16.1

17.3

16.7

16.9

16.2

Other community

0.6

0.6

0.6

0.6

0.6

0.7

Dentist

0.6*

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.0

Hospital inpatient

2.2

2.2

2.3

2.4

2.5

2.4

Hospital outpatient

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.7

1.7

1.6

Total

20.7

21.6

22.9

22.5

22.8

21.8

*Data only available from June 2010 rather than start of the calendar year

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