The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7390 p256
4 March 2006

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Statin prescribing up

Prescribing of statins has been rising, from a low base, by an average of 30 per cent a year since publication of the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease in 2000, health minister Rosie Winterton has revealed. In a Parliamentary written reply she said that in the last financial year the NHS spent around £750m on statins.