Malaria prophylaxis prescription information

Alex Skene made this Freedom of Information request to Prescription Pricing Division

The request was successful.

From: Alex Skene

4 September 2008

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please could you provide me with the monthly number of Prescription
Items Dispensed, Net Ingredient Cost, Quantity and actual
prescribing costs for each malaria prophylaxis drug (BNF section
5.4.1, including atovaquone+proguanil (Malarone)), broken down by
PCT, from Jan 2007 to latest month available.

I would prefer to receive the data in electronic format (CSV or
Excel if possible).

Yours faithfully,

Alex Skene

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11 September 2008

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Dear Mr Skene

Please find attached a reply and data to your FOI
request 423243

Kind regards
Maureen Chambers
Quality, Training & Administration Team Manager
NHSBSA-Prescription Pricing Division
Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Francis Irving left an annotation (26 September 2008)

Excellently, the PPA have published this on their website as well. https://www.ppa.org.uk/foiRequest/foiReq... - the FOI request number is the same. Nice work Alex and the PPA!

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