Truvada treatment numbers (FOI)

​Request

Please confirm the following information:

A

How many patients were treated for HIV in the last six month period with Truvada, generic emtricitabine or tenofovir disoproxil fumarate?

B

How many patients were treated in the last six month period for Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with Truvada, generic emtricitabine or tenofovir disoproxil fumarate ?

C

How many packs of Truvada, generic emtricitabine or tenofovir disoproxil fumarate were dispensed in latest six month period for HIV treatment?

D

How many packs of Truvada, generic emtricitabine or tenofovir disoproxil fumarate were dispensed in latest six month period for Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)?

E

How many packs of Descovy (tenofovir alafenamide or emtricitabine) were dispensed in latest six month period for HIV treatment?

F

How many packs of Descovy (tenofovir alafenamide or emtricitabine) were dispensed in latest six month period for Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)?

Response

Pharmacy records detail that Health and Community Services (HCS) have dispensed the following amounts of the specified medications in the last 6-month period:

A and B

23 unique patients were treated by HCS with Truvada or generic emtricitabine or tenofovir disoproxil fumarate in the last six month period.

C and D

61 packs of Truvada or generic emtricitabine or tenofovir disoproxil fumarate were dispensed by HCS over the last six month period.

E and F

147 packs of Descovy (tenofovir alafenamide or emtricitabine) were dispensed by HCS over the last six month period.

Indication for treatment is not recorded within the Pharmacy dispensing system. Identifying this information would require cross-referencing of Pharmacy data for all prescriptions against records held under unique patient identifiers within the HIV and Sexual Health and Genitourinary Medicine services, and manually interrogating each record. A Scheduled Public Authority is not required to create new datasets nor manipulate existing datasets in order to respond to Freedom of Information requests. Furthermore, the time necessary to identify and extract the data requested from the records that are available would exceed the timescales prescribed in the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014. Therefore, Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Article Applied

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations. 

(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.

(3) Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –

(a) by one person; or

(b) by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign, the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them.