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NHS: Drugs

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 167951, tabled on 24 July 2018

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS in England of special medicinal products over the last 12 months.

Answered on

5 September 2018

In the most recent 12 month period for which data is available (June 2017 to May 2018) the cost of National Health Service special medicinal products dispensed in the community in England was £70.5 million down from £135.5 million in 2010.

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