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The cost of prescriptions dispensed in England in 2002 was £6.8 billion, an 8.5% increase on 2001. The number of items grew by 5.1% to 617 million. The average net cost of each item grew 3.2% to £11.10p

Minster Practice Prescribing

Details regarding our prescribing are available on the website for 1999/2000, 2000/2001, 2001/2002, 2002/2003, 2003/2004,  2004/05 and 2005/06

Our prescribing budget for April 2005 to March 2006 is £315,764

Month This month Cumulative
April £19,610 £19,610
May £21,010 £40,620
June £21,715 £62,335
July £ £
August £ £
September £ £
October £ £
November £ £
December £ £
January £ £
February £ £
March £ £

Our prescribing budget for April 2004 to March 2005 was £303,976

Month This month Cumulative
April £22,530 £22,530
May £19,576 £42,106
June £21,747 £63,853
July £21,404 £85,257
August £22,922 £108,179
September £22,711 £130,890
October £24,380 £155,270
November £22,263 £177,533
December £23,457 £200,991
January £21,409 £222,400
February £19,132 £241,531
March £23,484 £265,016

Actual Out-turn: £265,016 Underspend £38,960

Our prescribing budget for April 2003 to March 2004 was £278,911

Month This month Cumulative
April £20,135 £20,135
May £20,344 £40,479
June £20,237 £60,715
July £20,404 £81,119
August £19,622 £100,741
September £21,372 £122,113
October £23,586 £145,700
November £20,988 £166,688
December £22,643 £189,331
January £20,992 £210,323
February £18,716 £229,040
March £22,421 £251,461

Actual out-turn: £251,461 i.e. Underspend £27,450

Our prescribing budget for April 2002 to March 2003 was £260,965

Month This month Cumulative
February £20,431 £213,973
March £20,443 £234,416

Actual outturn: £234,416 underspend of £26,549

Our prescribing budget for April 00 to March 2001 was increased from £1,038,384 to £1,084,023 after we made representations that our budget for a 2 year period was inadequate for our patients needs. Our spending patterns were as follows:

Month This month Cumulative
April £76,564 £76,564
May £95,942 £172,505
June £92,391 £264,896
July £85,275 £350,171
August £87,980 £438,150
September £79,677 £517,828
October £89,543 £607,370
November £83,249 £690,619
December £96,364 £786,983
January £89,518 £876,501
February £76,475 £952,976
March £93,448 £1,046,424

Actual out-turn:  £1,046,424 
(Original budget overspend of £8,040; New budget underspend of  £37,599)

Our prescribing budget for April 01 to March 2002 was £1,115,121
Month This month Cumulative
April £83,321 £83,321
May £91,891 £175,213
June £91,202 £266,414
July £85,905 £352,319

Forecast out-turn: £1,068,606  (July 2001)
Projected underspend £86,515

Our prescribing budget for April 99 to March 2000 was £952,703

By the end of March 2000, we were expected to spend £1,008,636. In fact we spent £1,014,106; an overspend of £61,403 or 6%. This was the only overspend in the 10 years that budgets have been in existence (apart from a fractional overspend in one year where there was a late change in the rules and that overspend was more than corrected the following year)

We understood that our budget would be increased retrospectively as a shortage of generic drugs which form 80% of our prescribing costs had caused the Government to accede to higher prices.

Eventually, our drug budget was increased by a minimal amount and we remained overspent.  Rest assured that this will NOT affect our prescribing which has always been based on the maxim Necessary, Effective, Safe and Economic. 

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