HC Deb 04 July 2000 vol 353 cc143-4W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the 10 most expensive drugs, in terms of treatment per patient per year, prescribed by the NHS and the number of patients involved in each case in the last year for which figures are available. [127862]

Ms Stuart

It is not possible to provide information in the form requested because individual patients require different treatment regimes, nor is information collected on the numbers of patients receiving medicines.

However, as a general rule the most expensive treatments per patient per year are those used to treat very rare diseases or rare complications of diseases, e.g. Gaucher's Disease or complication of haemophilia.