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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.…

Introduction This section of the report aims to provide users with an evidence-based assessment of the quality of the publication outputs. The quality of the outputs is assessed based on the 9 European Statistical System (ESS) quality dimensions…

Background Innovation scorecard overview The Innovation Scorecard is an action taken from the Department of Health and Social Care's (DHSC) paper titled "Innovation Health and Wealth: Accelerating Adoption and Diffusion in the NHS" (IHW)…

All of our quarterly summary statistics for Medicines Used in Mental Health - England for the year 2024/2025 are available to view.

Published 5 December 2024. 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…

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…

This page was last reviewed and updated 9 September 2021. We'll let you know of potential changes to our statistical publications and upcoming consultations on this page. You can also view our statistical publication calendar. Office for…