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Question for Department of Health

UIN 222876, tabled on 2 February 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the annual cost of providing insulin to people diagnosed with diabetes.

Answered on

5 February 2015

In 2013-14, the latest year available, the net ingredient cost of insulin dispensed in primary care was £328.3 million and in secondary care the cost was £8.1 million. Insulin has been defined as all medicines included in British National Formulary section 6.1.1 Insulins.

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