Cost of Acute Trust outpatient prescribing using FP10s

Jonathan Mills made this Freedom of Information request to Department of Health

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From: Jonathan Mills

15 October 2008

Dear Sir or Madam,

Can you tell me the Prescription Pricing Authority's figures for
the number and value of FP10 prescriptions in each Acute Trust this
year and for previous years?

Yours faithfully,
Mr Jonathan Mills

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Department of Health

3 November 2008

3 November 2008
Dear Mr Mills
Thank you for your email of 15 October asking, under the Freedom of
Information Act, for Prescription Pricing Authority's figures for the
number and value of FP10 prescriptions in each Acute Trust this year and
for previous years.
I am sorry to advise you that this information is not held by the
Department of Health. However, subject to the caveat below, it may be
that the Prescription Pricing Division of the NHS Business Services
Authority (NHSBSA), which is a public authority in its own right for
Freedom of Information Act purposes, will be able to help you. The
NHSBSA's web address is: [1]www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk .

It may be helpful if I point out that a large proportion of the medicines
dispensed in hospitals (including medicines for out patients and "day
care" patients) are not dispensed against an FP10 form; consequently there
may be little or no data for some Acute Trusts.
I hope that this is helpful. If you have any queries about this letter,
please contact me. Please remember to quote the reference number above in
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Yours sincerely

Colin McDonald
FOI Manager
Customer Service Centre
Tel: 0207 210 4940

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