Antidepressant prescriptions (FOI)Antidepressant prescriptions (FOI)
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09 March 2017.Request
May I request the following?
The number of prescriptions for antidepressants in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.
The number of Islanders who were prescribed antidepressants in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.
The cost to the taxpayer in each of these years in relation to antidepressants
Response
The table below summarises the number of prescriptions for antidepressants, and their total net cost, dispensed in the community in Jersey as pharmaceutical benefit (it does not include any private prescriptions or prescriptions issued in secondary care).
An estimate of the number of patients treated is also included based on an assumption that each person receives one prescription each month.
Some antidepressants are used in the treatment of conditions other than depression, for example in the treatment of chronic nerve pain.
| 2010 | 66,180 | £333,589 | 5,515 |
| 2011 | 67,390 | £429,059 | 5,610 |
| 2012 | 71,720 | £363,346 | 5,980 |
| 2013 | 81,536 | £520,791 | 6,800 |
| 2014 | 90,746 | £508,916 | 7,560 |
| 2015 | 92,046 | £514,342 | 7,671 |
| 2016 | 98,347 | £558,232 | 8,190 |
Social Security holds information on the volume of drugs dispensed as pharmaceutical benefit under the Health Insurance Law (but does not hold information on medicines which GPs may prescribe in their private practice and Islanders obtain privately without recourse to pharmaceutical benefit).
Social Security does not hold information on prescribing which occurs in secondary care (General Hospital services).
For more information please see previous similar request:
The number of prescriptions for antidepressants (FOI)
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