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Published 5 September 2024 Dependency Forming Medicines 2023/24 - Statistical Summary Narrative   Summary This publication describes the prescribing and dispensing of dependency-forming medicines in a primary care setting in England. It does not…

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…

Published 8 August 2024. Publication Prescribing for Diabetes – England 2015/16 to 2023/24 - Statistical summary narrative (HTML) Summary Diabetes features as one of the priorities for care and quality outcomes in the NHS Long Term Plan.  This…

Overview Published 31 October 2024. Summary The Innovation Scorecard reports on the use of medicines and medicine groupings in the NHS in England, which have been positively appraised by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE…

Published 7 November 2024 Publication Prescribing Costs in Hospitals and the Community England 2023/24 - Statistical Summary Narrative (HTML) Summary  This publication shows the costs of medicines, appliances, dressings and medical devices…

Misinterpreting active community pharmacies We have been made aware that our headline figure for active community pharmacies can be misinterpreted. We would like to draw your attention to some important information for this figure. When a…

Published 17 October 2024. Publication Hormone Replacement Therapy - England April 2015 to June 2024 statistical summary narrative (HTML) Summary This publication aims to describe the prescribing of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) medications…

Background In December 2011, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) set out plans to support the development, adoption and spread of innovation in the NHS. It published a report titled 'Innovation, Health and Wealth, accelerating adoption…

Key findings The comparison of expected uptake to the actual volume of medicines used in the NHS in England is available in the national level medicine groupings interactive dashboard. You can find the dashboard on the online web platform. The…

Introduction This section explains the use of Assumed Daily Doses (ADDs) for measuring medicine utilisation in the Innovation Scorecard. It discusses why ADDs are used, how they are used in calculations, and the principles applied to assign ADDs.…