Prescription Costs Analysis
- Abstract
- Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) provides details of the number of items and the net ingredient cost of all prescriptions dispensed in the community in England. The drugs dispensed are listed alphabetically within chemical entity by British National Formulary (BNF) therapeutic class.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Prescription, drug cost
- Variables
- BNF chapter, BNF section, BNF paragraph, items dispensed, class of drug, cost of drug before discounts, average cost of drug, net ingredient cost, therapeutic class of drug.
- Keywords
- British National Formulary (BNF), drug, drug cost, prescription
- Identifier Variables
- N/A
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Community
- Area of Health System
- Other
- Data Available
- Socio-economic, Demographic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- NHS information centre
- Data Type
- Administrative
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Unit of Analysis
- Aggregate
- Sample
- All prescriptions dispensed in the community in England
- Availability
- NHS information centre (2004 - 2008) and Department of Health (1993 onwards)
- Conditions of Access
- Free access
- Link
- NHS information center: http://www.ic.nhs.uk/[…]/prescriptions
Department of Health: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Adv[…]=prescription+cost+analysis - Contact
- Tel: 08453006016, enquiries@ic.nhs.uk
- Publications
- Thomas CM and Morris S. Cost of depression among adults in England in 2000. British Journal of Psychiatry 2003; 183: 514-519