Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
DRUGS to treat diabetes are costing tens of millions of pounds in the North East.
With more patients being diagnosed and treated every year, the cost of the condition could soon pose a big problem for the region?s Primary Care Trusts (PCTs).
In England, 2.5million people have been diagnosed with diabetes.
That number is expected to reach 4.2million by 2025, and health officials have warned of the financial impact on the already-struggling NHS.
In the Sunderland Teaching PCT area in 2011 to 2012 there were 248,581 prescribed items to treat diabetes, up 10.2 per cent on the previous year.
The net ingredient cost for 2011/12 was ?4,242,092.40.
http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/...ptions-up-10-per-cent-in-sunderland-1-4853847
With more patients being diagnosed and treated every year, the cost of the condition could soon pose a big problem for the region?s Primary Care Trusts (PCTs).
In England, 2.5million people have been diagnosed with diabetes.
That number is expected to reach 4.2million by 2025, and health officials have warned of the financial impact on the already-struggling NHS.
In the Sunderland Teaching PCT area in 2011 to 2012 there were 248,581 prescribed items to treat diabetes, up 10.2 per cent on the previous year.
The net ingredient cost for 2011/12 was ?4,242,092.40.
http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/...ptions-up-10-per-cent-in-sunderland-1-4853847