Pharmacy
(asked on 20th July 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total number of repeat prescriptions issued by (a) high street and (b) internet pharmacies has been in each year since 2007 in (i) England and (ii) each local authority area.
The total number of repeat dispensing prescription items issued by wholly distance selling pharmacies, including internet pharmacies, and other community pharmacies, including those on the high street, for each year since April 2013 in England is detailed in the table below:
Time Period | Repeat Dispensing Prescription Items for Distant Selling Pharmacies | Repeat Dispensing Prescription Items for Other Community Pharmacies | Yearly Total |
2013 (Apr-Dec 2013) | 625,157 | 49,222,450 | 49,847,607 |
2014 (Jan-Dec 2014) | 1,076,060 | 73,769,909 | 74,845,969 |
2015 (Jan-Dec 2015) | 1,482,942 | 84,411,853 | 85,894,795 |
2016 (Jan-Dec 2016) | 2,001,326 | 95,730,820 | 97,732,146 |
2017 (Jan-May 2017) | 930,753 | 42,216,958 | 43,147,711 |
Total | 6,116,238 | 345,351,990 | 351,468,228 |
The requested data is not provided before 2013 as the NHS Business Services Authority only holds prescription payment data for a period of 60 months, at which point it is destroyed in line with their records management policy. Also this coincides with NHS England becoming responsible for commissioning community pharmacy services from April 2013. As such, data is attached on repeat dispensing prescription items by NHS England local areas, rather than local authority areas.