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<p>The full data requested is not collected centrally or by NHS England. The data
is partially held by either NHS Digital or the NHS Business Services Authority.</p><p>
</p><p>As part of its formal framework agreement with the Department, NHS Digital
collects, processes and publishes data from across the health and social care system
in England, including data on prescribing and medicines. NHS Digital reports that
it does not hold the prescription level data requested but does hold data on the net
ingredient cost of Methadone Hydrochloride prescription items written in the United
Kingdom and dispensed in the community in England, via an FP10 prescription form.
This is provided in the following table. Data is not available broken down into the
cost of ordering, storage, transport, security, administration and prescription costs<strong>.</strong></p><p>
</p><p>Data on local methadone prescribing and supply may be held by individual National
Health Service bodies, for example, clinical commissioning groups or NHS trusts.</p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>British National Formulary (BNF) Chemical Name</p></td><td><p>BNF
3.9.1 Cough Suppressants</p></td><td><p>BNF 4.7.2 Opioid Analgesic</p></td><td><p>BNF
4.10.3 Opioid Dependence</p></td><td><p>Total Net Ingredient Cost</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>Methadone
Hydrochloride</p></td><td><p>£1,025</p></td><td><p>£986,129</p></td><td><p>£20,139,545</p></td><td><p>£21,126,699</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>Methadone
Hydrochloride</p></td><td><p>£1,692</p></td><td><p>£964,223</p></td><td><p>£18,852,099</p></td><td><p>£19,818,014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>Methadone
Hydrochloride</p></td><td><p>£1,586</p></td><td><p>£858,415</p></td><td><p>£18,456,074</p></td><td><p>£19,316,075</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>Methadone
Hydrochloride</p></td><td><p>£362</p></td><td><p>£596,809</p></td><td><p>£17,054,254</p></td><td><p>£17,651,425</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>Methadone
Hydrochloride</p></td><td><p>£590</p></td><td><p>£517,711</p></td><td><p>£15,252,240</p></td><td><p>£15,770,541</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source</em>:
Prescription Cost Analysis, NHS Digital</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes</em>:</p><ol><li>Information
is provided for the five calendar years from 2013 to 2017, which is the latest data
currently available. Information for 2018 is due to be released later in March 2019.</li><li>Data
is provided for Methadone Hydrochloride, which is listed in the BNF within sub-paragraphs
BNF 3.9.1 cough suppressants, BNF 4.7.2 Opioid Analgesic and BNF 4.10.3 Opioid Dependence.</li><li>NHS
Digital only has information about NHS prescription items dispensed to patients in
the community in England using a FP10 prescription form. Accordingly, NHS Digital
does not hold data on drugs dispensed in hospitals, on private prescriptions, on prescriptions
written but not dispensed and about other supply routes such as directly through a
Patient Group Direction.</li></ol><p> </p><p>The NHS Business Services Authority is
a special health authority and arm’s length body of the Department and processes 1
billion prescription items for pharmacists who have dispensed prescriptions in England.
The NHS Business Services Authority has provided data of remuneration costs from 2014
to 2018, for English pharmacies only, for the dispensing of methadone. This is provided
in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Calendar Year</p></td><td><p>Remuneration
for Methadone (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>41,556,608.82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>41,647,409.24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>41,720,280.70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>45,319,400.63</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>45,932,852.74</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source</em>:
NHS Business Services Authority Information Services Data Warehouse</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes</em>:</p><ol><li>The
data is based on items dispensed in the community in England.</li></ol><p> </p><ol
start="2"><li>The data is based on dispensed prescription items that were processed
by the NHS Business Services Authority, not including items not dispensed, disallowed
and returned, also excluding items prescribed but not presented for dispensing or
not submitted to NHS Prescription Services by the dispenser.</li></ol>
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