Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Diabetes drugs in primary care cost the NHS an average of £2.2m every day in 2013/14 in England, accounting for 9.5% of the total primary care drugs bill for the financial year.
This amounts to a net ingredient cost (NIC) of £803m, a rise of 5.1% from the £764m spent in 2012/13, equivalent to an extra £100,000 per day.
In 2005/6, prescribing costs for diabetes accounted for just 6.6% of the total primary care drugs bill.
The NIC for diabetes drugs has since increased by 56.3% since 2005/6, while NIC for all prescribing increased by just 8.2% during the same period.
http://www.gponline.com/diabetes-dr...primary-care-prescribing-bill/article/1307490
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Maybe if they educated people properly and gave them the tools they need then they wouldn't need to prescribe as many drugs? 🙄
This amounts to a net ingredient cost (NIC) of £803m, a rise of 5.1% from the £764m spent in 2012/13, equivalent to an extra £100,000 per day.
In 2005/6, prescribing costs for diabetes accounted for just 6.6% of the total primary care drugs bill.
The NIC for diabetes drugs has since increased by 56.3% since 2005/6, while NIC for all prescribing increased by just 8.2% during the same period.
http://www.gponline.com/diabetes-dr...primary-care-prescribing-bill/article/1307490
(free registration required)
Maybe if they educated people properly and gave them the tools they need then they wouldn't need to prescribe as many drugs? 🙄