Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients began biologic therapies for severe asthma in each month in 2020; and how many patients in total were prescribed biologic therapies for severe asthma in each of those months.
The following table shows the number of patients with severe asthma each month where biologic drug costs have been reimbursed to centres providing severe asthma services.
. | January 2020 | February 2020 | March 2020 |
Total patients | 4,906 | 4,732 | 4,444 |
New Starters | 152 | 91 | 63 |