Spending on diabetes prescriptions doubles to £1 billion in ten years The escalating diabetes crisis is now costing the NHS almost £1 billion a year in prescriptions to treat and manage the disease.
Total spending spiralled by £88 million over the last financial year and now makes up 10.6 per cent of the total cost of all prescribing in GP surgeries and other primary care.
The £956.7 million cost for 2015-16 is almost double the £513.9 million spent in 2005-06, when diabetes drugs accounted for 6.6 per cent of the overall spend.
It means the taxpayer in England is spending around £2.6 million each day on drugs for all cases of the disease, of which a significant proportion are linked to obesity and unhealthy lifestyles. The Daily Telegraph
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Total spending spiralled by £88 million over the last financial year and now makes up 10.6 per cent of the total cost of all prescribing in GP surgeries and other primary care.
The £956.7 million cost for 2015-16 is almost double the £513.9 million spent in 2005-06, when diabetes drugs accounted for 6.6 per cent of the overall spend.
It means the taxpayer in England is spending around £2.6 million each day on drugs for all cases of the disease, of which a significant proportion are linked to obesity and unhealthy lifestyles. The Daily Telegraph
See also:
- Rising cost of drugs for diabetes approaches £1 billion per year NHS Digital
- The soaring cost of diabetes: NHS spending nearly DOUBLES in a decade thanks to the nation's bulging waistline The Daily Mail
- Diabetes drugs cost NHS nearly £1bn a year The Guardian
- Diabetes drugs costs NHS England nearly £1bn a year OnMedica
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