This data package contains information on the number of prescription items for alcohol and smoking dependence and their net ingredient cost in the United Kingdom. It also gives detailed information on retail prescription drugs filled at pharmacies in the United States.
This data package contains the datasets that estimate on the number of prescription items dispensed in England for the treatment of alcohol and smoking dependence, and also UK Prescription Cost Analysis, which provides a national level annual summary of prescriptions dispensed during 2016, providing the detail for each individual item prescribed in 2016 in the UK. The number of prescription items dispensed in 2016 for the treatment of alcohol dependence was 188 thousand which was 4 percent lower than in 2015. The total Net Ingredient Cost (NIC) was £4.87 million. This is 24 percent higher than in 2015 and more than double the level ten years ago. The number of prescription items dispensed for the treatment of smoking cessation in England in 2015-2016 was 1.2 million, compared to 2.2 million ten years ago. In 2015-2016, 644 thousand items of NRT (Nicotine Replacement Therapies) and 489 thousand items of Varenicline were dispensed. Bupropion is the least common item, with only 21 thousand dispensed in 2015-2016. The data package also contains two datasets that provide one year data on retail prescription drugs filled at each state and regional zone, categorized by age, gender, prescription drug and by per capita annually as well as by total prescription drugs and total sales for each state and regional zone in US for the year 2014 and 2016.
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Data Package Complexity
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Available Enrichments
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Keywords
Prescribing Data Analysis, Prescribing in General Practice, Digital GP Practice Prescribing, Pharmacy Statistics UK, Pharmacy Data UK, Prescription Analysis, GP Prescription Cost
Other Titles
How many prescriptions were dispensed in 2016?, How many prescriptions are filled each year In the United States?, Total Number of Retail Prescription Drugs Filled At Pharmacies in UK, Number of Items Dispensed by Pharmacies
Included Datasets
FDA Pharmacy Prescriptions Per Capita Income and Total Sales
This dataset is a two-years data on retail prescription drugs filled at each state and regional zone; it is for pharmacies per capita categorized by age, gender, prescription drug and by per capita annually as well as by total prescription drugs and total sales for each state and regional zone. This data is for 2014 and 2016 for pharmacies, stores and merchandises at 814 defined regional zones.
Number of Prescription Items for the Treatment of Alcohol Dependence
This dataset provides statistics on alcohol related hospital admissions as well as the number of prescriptions for the treatment of alcohol dependence in 2018 in England.
Prescription Items For the Treatment of Smoking Dependence
This dataset presents information on the number of prescription items written for pharmacotherapies for the treatment of smoking dependence, prescribed in primary care and dispensed in the community, by Commissioning Region, Region and Clinical Commissioning Group.
UK Prescription Cost Analysis
Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) provides details of the number of items and the Net Ingredient Cost (NIC) of all prescriptions dispensed in the community in England. The drugs that are dispensed in the community are listed by British National Formulary (BNF) therapeutic class chapters 1 to 15, using the classification system prior to BNF edition 70. Items such as dressings and appliances, have been classified into six pseudo BNF chapters 18 to 23.
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