Pharmacy: Standards
(asked on 11th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the level of (a) production and (b) capacity is of aseptic services in England.
This question was answered on 21st November 2022
The production of aseptically compounded medicines for the National Health Service in England is approximately equal between NHS and commercial suppliers. In 2019/20, approximately 4.5 million doses of compounded medicines were prepared in NHS facilities in England. However, information on the total capacity is not held centrally.