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This page was last reviewed and updated 19 June 2024. Official Statistics guidance table View our Official Statistics guidance table (ODT: 69KB) to see comparability criteria amongst our publications. Prescribing and dispensing Dependency…

Published 4 March 2021 Summary Mental health is a key area of the NHS Long term Plan published in 2019. This publication aims to describe the prescribing of medicines used to improve mental health in England that are subsequently dispensed in the…

The DFM quarterly data release is an official statistics release. It is produced with full consideration of the standards set out in the Code of Practice for Statistics. We also release an annual DFM statistical report. You can view the latest…

Correction notice: a total cost figure for hypnotics and anxiolytics has been corrected. The total cost figure in the 'Summary' section of the hypnotics and anxiolytics summary narrative HTML file was corrected on 2 December 2024. This was due to…

This page was last reviewed and updated on Monday 31 March 2025. This calendar lists upcoming statistics which we'll produce. It lists publication dates for these statistics, month by month for the next 12 months. Where the state is marked as…

Correction notice - model of expected items based on pre-pandemic prescribing trends was trained incorrectly in this release. Read our correction notices page for more details. Published 6 July 2023 This page was last reviewed and updated 15…

Published 8 September 2022 Summary This publication aims to describe the prescribing of dependency forming medicines in a primary care setting in England that are dispensed in the community. This does not include data on medicines used in…