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Published: 28 June 2011
Prescribing and Medicines: Reimbursement and remuneration paid to dispensing contractors Calendar and financial years 2006-2011

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Prescription cost analysis information is obtained from NHS prescriptions written in Scotland that were dispensed elsewhere in the United Kingdom. All these prescriptions are dispensed by community pharmacies, dispensing doctors, a small number of specialist appliance suppliers and stoma providers. GPs write the vast majority of these prescriptions, with the remainder written by other authorised prescribers such as nurses and dentists. Also included are prescriptions written in hospitals that are dispensed in the community, but exclude prescriptions dispensed within hospitals.

Prescription cost analysis shows details of the number of items and the gross ingredient cost of all NHS prescriptions dispensed in the community in Scotland. The items dispensed are listed alphabetically within chemical entity (for drugs) by British National Formulary (BNF) therapeutic class. Also included are statistics on the top 10 drugs dispensed in Scotland by volume and cost and the generic rate of prescribing by the NHS Board the prescription was written in.

Prescription Cost Analaysis

PCA_2011.xls Download Excel file [2.19mb]
PCA_2010.xls [2.15mb]
PCA_2009.xls [2.15mb]
PCA_2008.xls [2.11mb]
PCA_2007.xls [2.11mb]
PCA_2006.xls [2.16mb]
PCA_2005.xls [2.14mb]
PCA_2004.xls [2.13mb]
PCA_2003.xls [2.07mb]
PCA_2002.xls [2.04mb]
PCA_2001.xls [2.0mb]