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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Diabetes prescription numbers topped 40 million for the first time last year, according to official figures.
The number of diabetes prescriptions rose by nearly 50% in six years, from 13.5 million in 2005-06 to 40.6 million in 2011-12, data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) shows.
Net cost of diabetes drugs also rose by just under 50% during the same period, according to the report Prescribing For Diabetes In England: 2005/6 to 2011/12.
In 2005-06 diabetes drugs cost the NHS ?246.3 million. Last year they cost ?760.3 million.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...es-prescriptions-tops-40-million-8046455.html
The number of diabetes prescriptions rose by nearly 50% in six years, from 13.5 million in 2005-06 to 40.6 million in 2011-12, data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) shows.
Net cost of diabetes drugs also rose by just under 50% during the same period, according to the report Prescribing For Diabetes In England: 2005/6 to 2011/12.
In 2005-06 diabetes drugs cost the NHS ?246.3 million. Last year they cost ?760.3 million.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...es-prescriptions-tops-40-million-8046455.html