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Cost of diabetes approaches £1 billion per year

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Cost of diabetes approaches £1 billion per year

The net ingredient cost of drugs for diabetes has increased by £88 million in 2015/16, bringing the annual primary care prescribing spend on diabetes drugs to £956.7 million. This is according to new figures published in a new report by NHS Digital.

This £956.7 million spend makes up 10.6 per cent of the total cost of all prescribing in primary care in England, and is almost double the cost of a decade ago, when it was £513.9 million, or 6.6 per cent of the overall spend.

NHS Digital’s report, Prescribing for Diabetes 2005/06 to 2015/16, also shows that in the last financial year, 49.7 million prescription items were dispensed in England for the treatment and management of diabetes.

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