§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the current unit cost in the NHS of each accepted treatment for erectile dysfunction disorder by(a) prescribable drug and (b) other means. [76133]
§ Mr. DenhamThe information requested is not available in any comparable form.
§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the total cost per adult male of GP-prescribed drug treatments for erectile dysfunction disorders in(a) England, (b) each English region and (c) each English health authority area in the most recent complete year available. [76132]
§ Mr. DenhamThe information requested is shown in the table.
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Net ingredient cost per 1,000 adult males of drugs for erectile dysfunction disorders prescribed by General Practitioners England 1998 £ Regional Office/Health Authority Net ingredients cost per 1,000 males aged 18 and over Northern and Yorkshire Bradford 671 County Durham 568 East Riding 702 Gateshead and South Tyneside 730 Leeds 464 Newcastle and North Tyneside 693 North Cumbria 487 Northumberland 448 Sunderland 495 Tees 409 Wakefield 367 North Yorkshire 522 Calderdale and Kirklees 492 Average for Northern and Yorkshire 545
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£ Regional Office/Health Authority Net ingredients cost per 1,000 males aged 18 and over Trent Barnsley 387 North Derbyshire 321 South Derbyshire 385 Doncaster 881 Leicestershire 408 Lincolnshire 451 North Nottinghamshire 285 Nottingham 489 Rotherham 510 Sheffield 288 South Humber 518 Average for Trent 429 Anglia and Oxford Bedfordshire 452 Berkshire 460 Buckinghamshire 250 Cambridge and Huntingdon 396 East Norfolk 701 Northamptonshire 496 North West Anglia 539 Oxfordshire 385 Suffolk 423 Average for Anglia and Oxford 452 North Thames Hillingdon 573 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 491 Enfield and Haringey 470 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 319 Barking and Havering 451 Barnet 481 Brent and Harrow 562 Camden and Islington 578 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 619 East London and The City 563 North Essex 492 South Essex 429 East and North Hertfordshire 424 West Hertfordshire 493 Average for North Thames 496 South Thames Bexley and Greenwich 518 Bromley 446 Croydon 415 East Kent 549 West Kent 487 Kingston and Richmond 442 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 588 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 532 East Surrey 438 West Surrey 445 East Sussex, Brighton and Hove 466 West Sussex 544 Average for South Thames 499 South and West North and Mid Hampshire 478 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 443 Southampton and South West Hampshire 552 Isle of Wight 566 Somerset 500 South and West Devon 583 Wiltshire 433
Net ingredient cost per 1,000 adult males of drugs for erectile dysfunction disorders prescribed by General Practitioners England 1998 £ Regional Office/Health Authority Net ingredients cost per 1,000 males aged 18 and over Avon 511 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 517 Dorset 772 North and East Devon 500 Gloucestershire 550 Average for South and West 536 West Midlands Birmingham 584 Coventry 630 Dudley 439 Herefordshire 273 Sandwell 451 Shropshire 541 Solihull 602 North Staffordshire 531 South Staffordshire 577 Walsall 388 Warwickshire 552 Wolverhampton 738 Worcestershire 481 Average for West Midlands 537 North West South Lancashire 556 Liverpool 588 Manchester 769 Morecambe Bay 490 St. Helens and Knowsley 1,062 Salford and Trafford 894 Sefton 530 Stockport 672 West Pennine 623 Bury and Rochdale 641 North Cheshire 737 South Cheshire 755 East Lancashire 458 North West Lancashire 726 Wigan and Bolton 671 Wirral 669 Average for North West 680 Average for England 525 Notes:
1. The information is from the Prescribing Analyses and Cost system (PACT) which is based on all prescriptions prescribed by General Practitioners which are dispensed.
2. The population figures used are based on the Office for National Statistics mid year resident population projections for 1998, 1996 based.
3. The net ingredient cost is the basic cost of a drug which does not take account of discounts, dispensing costs, fees or prescription charges income.
4. Drugs used for the treatment of erectile dysfunction are defined as those in the British National Formulary paragraph 7.4.5, "Drugs for impotence".