§ Lynne JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish the prescribing rates in the last three years for which figures are available for atypical, anti-psychotic medication. [1586]
§ Jacqui SmithThe number of items dispensed in the community in England for atypical, anti-psychotic preparations for the period 1998–2000 is shown in the table.
Thousand Year Prescription items 1998 469.7 1999 772.6 2000 1,149.4 The data are from the Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) system and are based on a full analysis of all prescriptions dispensed in the community, i.e. by community pharmacists and appliance contractors, dispensing doctors, and prescriptions submitted by prescribing doctors for items personally administered in England. The PCA system includes not only prescriptions originating from general practices in England but also from nurses, dentists and hospital doctors provided they were dispensed in the community; also included are prescriptions written in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man but dispensed in England. The data do not cover drugs dispensed in hospitals or private prescriptions.