Asthma: Medical Treatments

(asked on 11th June 2020) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 22nd June 2020

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.

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January 2020

February 2020

March 2020

Total patients

4,906

4,732

4,444

New Starters

152

91

63

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