Diabetes prescriptions costing NHS £1bn a year, figures reveal

Diabetes prescriptions costing NHS £1bn a year, figures reveal Prescriptions for diabetics are now costing the NHS in England more than £1bn a year, new figures show.

NHS Digital said the “total net ingredient” cost of prescriptions for diabetes was £1,012.4m in 2017-18, up from £983.7m a year earlier.

Almost one in 20 (4.9 per cent) of prescriptions written by GPs are for diabetes treatments, with 53.4 million items prescribed for diabetes last year.

They make up more than one-tenth (11.4 per cent) of total primary care net ingredient costs. The Independent

See also:

• Diabetes prescriptions now cost NHS £1bn, figures show BBC News
• Diabetes medicines now cost the NHS more than £1BILLION a year Diabetes medicines now cost the NHS more than £1BILLION a year The Daily Mail