The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7449 p477
28 April 2007

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Prescription cost analysis 2006

Drug costs show signs of control

In 2006, the number of prescriptions dispensed in the community in England was 4.4 per cent up on 2005. The rates of increase in 2005 and 2004 were 5.0 per cent and 5.6 per cent, respectively.

Drug costs, too, show a trend towards slower increases, with the 2004 increase of 7.58 per cent having been slashed to a 1.8 per cent drop in 2005 and returning to only a 3.3 per cent increase in 2006.