26 April 2018

The rising cost of medicines to the NHS

The rising cost of medicines to the NHS: what’s the story?
Kings Fund 26 April 2018
  • An examination of the health service spend on medicines, both generics and branded medicines found that the volume of prescription items provided to patients in primary care increased by almost half in the decade to 2016 (to 1.1 billion items), this was offset by a reduction of nearly a quarter in the average cost per prescription item (to £8.34).