Rising Cost Of Drugs For Diabetes Approaches £1 Billion Per Year
The net ingredient cost (NIC)(2) of drugs for diabetes has increased by £88.0 million in 2015/16, bringing the annual primary care prescribing spend on this drug classification to £956.7 million - around £2.6 million per day, figures published today show. *NHS Digital must be quoted as the source of these figures *Regional data are available within this report NHS Digital's report Prescribing for Diabetes 2005/06 to 2015/16 also shows that in the last financial year, 49.7 million prescription items3 were dispensed in England for the treatment and management of diabetes. The £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. Since 2007/08, the British National Formulary classification Drugs used in diabetes4 has accounted for the highest cost of all drug sections, while the number of prescription items dispensed in this category has also increased every year since 2005/06. This is in line with a steady increase year on year in the percentage of the population being treated for diabetes. On a national level, the Quality and Outcomes Framework5 report of 2014/15 shows that the average percentage of all GP-registered patients, aged 17 and over, in England, being treated for diabetes has increased from 5.3 per cent in 2009/10 to 6.4 per cent in 2014/15. This means in 2014/15 there were 2.9 million adults in England receiving treatment for diabetes. Further analysis for the 2015/16 financial year in Prescribing for Diabetes shows: 17.9 per cent of Newham CCG's total prescribing spend was on drugs used in diabetes maintenance - the highest percentage of all CCGs in England. Newham also had the highest pe Continue reading >>
Diabetes Drugs In England Cost Nearly £1bn Last Year
Drugs for diabetes in England made up 10.6% of all primary care prescribing in 2015-16 at a cost of £956.7m (€1.14bn; $1.27bn), figures from NHS Digital have shown.1 Further analysis of prescribing costs … Continue reading >>
Nhs Appointment No-shows Cost Health Service £1bn Last Year
Patients missing appointments cost the health service almost £1bn last year, NHS England’s chief nurse has said. Professor Jane Cummings said ”the NHS was coming under pressure as never before” and called on patients “to cancel their NHS appointments in good time if they are not able to go to them to help free up the service for those who need it”. There were eight million missed hospital outpatient appointments in 2016/17 at an average cost of £120 each, according to NHS England figures. This could fund almost a million cataract operations or a quarter of a million hip replacements. These are the same “elective procedures” that hospitals have cancelled by their thousand after official advice to free up resources over the Christmas and new year period. Speaking as the service heads into its 70th year, Ms Cummings said: “We are asking patients and the public to use the health service responsibly to help ensure that care is readily available for everyone who needs it. “There are now more doctors, nurses and other clinicians available at the end of a phone to give advice and guidance to users of the 111 service. Sticking to your appointment is a small but effective way to wish the NHS happy birthday in its 70th year.” The guidance also advises that patients can help the NHS by seeing the most appropriate clinician. NHS figures show that more than nine million people were sent home from A&E in 2016/17 with just guidance and advice, which was potentially available from a pharmacist or by calling 111. Reuse content Continue reading >>
Diabetes Drugs Cost Nhs Nearly £1bn A Year, And Other Stories
Diabetes drugs cost NHS nearly £1bn a year The cost to the NHS of prescribing drugs for diabetes has soared to almost £1bn a year, as the number of people diagnosed with the disease has risen sharply alongside the surge in obesity. The health service now spends more on medication for type 1 and type 2 diabetes than for any other ailment. The number of diabetics across the UK as a whole has recently risen to more than four million and has increased by 65% over the last 10 years. Read the full story here. Cholesterol reducing statins may increase risk of diabetes Statins lower ‘bad’ cholesterol in order to protect against heart disease but lowering bad cholesterol levels may increase the risk of diabetes. Scientists said guidelines should not change as benefits outweigh risks and a study revealed boosting ‘good’ cholesterol may protect against diabetes. Read the full story here. Cricket stars team up to raise risk awareness of type 2 diabetes England and Pakistan cricket stars teamed up to raise awareness of type 2 diabetes. Warwickshire County Cricket Club (CCC) and Diabetes UK are using the third Investec Test Match at Edgbaston, between England and Pakistan, to promote the seriousness of the condition. Read the full story here. Diabetes is no laughing matter, say young sufferers A young American woman, infuriated by a social media trend where pictures of cakes and sweets are accompanied by #diabetes, has spelled out what it is really like to have the condition. On a Facebook post with the hashtag #WhatDiabetesReallyLooksLike, Madeline Milzark, 18, wrote about living with type 1 diabetes. Read the full story here. Continue reading >>
Diabetes Drugs Cost Nhs Nearly £1bn A Year
The cost to the NHS of prescribing drugs for diabetes has soared to almost £1bn a year, as the number of people diagnosed with the disease has risen sharply alongside the surge in obesity. The NHS in England spent £956.7m on drugs last year prescribed by GPs, nurses and pharmacists to treat and manage the condition. That sum represents 10.6% of the cost of all prescriptions issued by NHS primary care services in 2015-16. The health service now spends more on medication for type 1 and type 2 diabetes than for any other ailment. The number of diabetics across the UK as a whole has recently risen to more than four million and has increased by 65% over the last 10 years. The cost of diabetes drugs has almost doubled in a decade, new data from NHS Digital show. That £956.7m was a huge rise on the £513.9m it spent on them in 2005-06 which, at the time, was just 6% of the NHS’s total drugs bill. Diabetes is thought to cost the NHS about £10bn, once the cost of treatment, including amputation and hospitalisations for life-threatening hypoglycaemic attacks, is included. Last year a total of 49.7m items were prescribed for diabetes, compared to 27.1m a decade years earlier, when just 53 items were prescribed for every 100 people; that had risen to 91 last year. Just under nine in 10 (89.1%) diabetics have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, which is closely associated with people’s lifestyles, especially their weight. However, type 1 diabetes – whose sufferers include Theresa May – is an autoimmune condition. It often emerges in childhood, though the prime minister, 59, was only diagnosed with it in 2013. May injects herself with insulin at least twice a day. Helen Donovan, the Royal College of Nursing’s health professional lead, said: “These stark figures show Continue reading >>
Nhs Diabetes Drug Bill Rises To Almost £1bn A Year
The amount spent by the NHS for diabetes drugs has increased to almost £1 billion a year, according to new figures released by the NHS. It now takes up 10.6 per cent of the cost of prescribed drugs in England, reflecting a rise in the number of people who have diabetes. Lifesaving medication Robin Hewings, Diabetes UK Head of Policy, said: “Today’s report shows the effect that the soaring number of people diagnosed with diabetes is having on the NHS’s bottom line. However, it is important to remember that diabetes medication, such as insulin, is lifesaving, and people with diabetes need their medication to manage their condition well in order to reduce their risk of serious complications such as blindness, amputations and stroke. “As well as being personally devastating these complications are also extremely costly to the NHS. The health service spends £10 billion every year managing diabetes, and the vast majority of this cost is spent managing potentially avoidable complications. We are spending more on things going wrong than helping people manage their condition well in the first place. This is why preventing cases of Type 2 diabetes, combined with providing people diagnosed with diabetes with prescribed medication and the support and care they need to manage their condition effectively, will help to reduce costs to the NHS in the long term.” Continue reading >>
Nhs Spends £1billion A Year On Obesity Drugs
The cost of treatment for diabetes, weight loss drugs and indigestion remedies has risen to £1.027 billion - an increase of 65 percent in 10 years. The NHS Digital figures, reported in The Daily Telegraph, show 52 million prescriptions were issued for diabetes last year, which is an increase of 81 percent over the last decade. There are around four million people in the UK with Type 2 diabetes - the most common kind - which is linked to increasing levels of obesity, unhealthy diets and a lack of exercise. Dan Howarth, the head of care at Diabetes UK, told the newspaper: "The last 10 years have seen an explosion in the number of people being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes - a trend that shows no sign of slowing down." Continue reading >>
Diabetes Drugs Cost Nhs Nearly £1bn A Year - Dermatonics - Treatment For Cracked Heels
The cost to the NHS of prescribing drugs to treat diabetes has risen to almost £1bn a year, as the number of people who are diagnosed with the diseases has risen sharply alongside the surge in obesity. Last year, the NHS spent £956.7 million on drugs that were prescribed to diabetics by GPs, nurses and pharmacists. That sum represents around 10%of the cost of all prescriptions issued by NHS primary care services in 2015-16. The NHS now spends more on medication for type 1 and type 2 diabetes than for any other aliment. Across the UK, the number of diabetes has risen to more than four million, a figure that has increased by 65% over the last ten years. In those ten years, the cost of diabetes drugs has almost doubled. The £956.7 million that was spent was a huge increase on the £513.9 million spent on the drugs in 2005-06 which, at the time, was just 6% of the NHS’s total drugs bill. Diabetes is thought to cost the NHS about £10 billion, once the cost of treatment, including amputation and hospitalisations for life-threatening hypoglycaemic attacks, is included. Last year a total of 49.7 million items were prescribed for diabetes, compared to the 27.1 million a decade ago, when just 53 items were prescribed for every 100 people. Today, 53 items are prescribed for every 91 people. 89.1% of diabetics have type 2 diabetes, which is closely linked with people’s lifestyles, especially their weight. However, type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition. It often emerges in childhood and those who suffer have to inject themselves with insulin twice a day. Helen Donovan, the Royal College of Nursing’s health professional lead, said: “These stark figures show the need for a greater focus on preventing type 2 diabetes. Encouraging healthier lifestyles would not only sav Continue reading >>
Diabetes Drugs Costs Nhs England Nearly £1bn A Year
Add to PDP Tracker Print The annual NHS England budget for the treatment and management of diabetes is approaching £1 billion per year, according to new figures from NHS Digital. Ingredient costs for diabetes drugs have increased by £88.0 million in 2015/16, bringing the annual primary care prescribing spend diabetes medicines in England to £956.7 million - around £2.6 million per day. In the last financial year, 49.7 million prescription items were dispensed in England for the treatment and management of diabetes. The £956.7 million spend makes up 10.6% 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% of the overall spend. Of the three main diabetes treatment areas in primary care for 2015/16, prescribed antidiabetic drugs cost the NHS £422.7 million, prescribed insulin cost the NHS £343.7 million, and prescribed diagnostic and monitoring devices cost the NHS £186.6 million. The figures show the West Midlands is the region of England with the highest proportion of people over the age of 17 who are diabetic: 7.5%. The south central area has the lowest prevalence rate, at 5.6%. The east London borough of Newham spends proportionately more of its drugs budget than anywhere else in England on diabetes medication, at 17.9%. North Tyneside spends the lowest, at 7.4%. Newham also dispensed the highest proportion of drugs for diabetes, at 9%. The spend on medication differed widely in different parts of England. The cost per patient treated was highest in Warwickshire North, at £415 a head, and lowest in Northumberland (£239). Since 2007/08, the British National Formulary classification ‘Drugs used in diabetes’ has accounted for the highest cost of all drug section Continue reading >>
Gps Spending £1bn A Year On Insulin Treatments
One in 20 prescriptions written by GPs is for diabetes drugs after an 80 per cent rise in the past decade. Treatments for the condition cost family doctors almost £1 billion a year, one in every nine pounds they spend on medicines. This is another tragic consequence of successive UK governments failing to tackle obesity The figures led to calls for tougher action against obesity, one of the leading causes of diabetes, amid warnings that the NHS was struggling to cope with a rising tide of avoidable ill health. Diabetes is the result of a lack of insulin or resistance to it, leading to difficulty in controlling blood sugar. More than three million people are known to have the condition and nine in ten cases are type 2, which is linked to excess weight. In 2016-17 GPs wrote… Continue reading >>
Nhs Is Spending More Than £1bn A Year On Drugs To Fight Obesity
The NHS is spending more than £1bn a year on drugs to combat obesity-related health problems with more than 20,000 people in the North East alone admitted to hospital for treatment in one year. NHS digital figures first reported in the Daily Telegraph show the cost of weight-loss drugs, indigestion remedies and treating diabetes has risen to £1.027bn - up 65% in just 10 years. In the last year, 52 million prescriptions were issued in the UK for diabetes, up 81% in a decade. Around four million people in Britain are living with Type 2 diabetes, which is linked to obesity, inactivity and a bad diet. Dan Howarth, head of care at Diabetes UK, told the Telegraph: “The last 10 years have seen an explosion in the number of people being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes - a trend that shows no sign of slowing down.” In the North East, more than 20,000 patients were admitted to hospital in one year for being severely overweight. NHS figures show 7,039 men and 13,148 women in the North East were diagnosed with obesity related health problems in the year to April 2016, with 791 of them having bariatric surgery to help them lose weight. Procedures include fitting gastric bands to reduce stomach sizes. MPs have suggested introducing bans on huge discounts for unhealthy food and drinks, while the soft drinks industry will be hit with a sugar tax from April 2018. Some pop manufacturers have already altered recipes to slash the levels of sugar in their drinks and avoid paying a levy. They include Coca Cola, which has reduced the sugar content of Orange Fanta by 33%. From April, any drink with more than 5g of sugar per 100ml will be subject to an extra tariff, with an even higher tax on beverages that have a sugar level of 8g/100ml. The Government believes it will help cut childhood Continue reading >>
Diabetes Drugs Cost Approaches £1bn Per Year
The net ingredient cost (NIC) of drugs for diabetes increased by £88 million in 2015/16, bringing to annual primary care prescribing spend to just shy of £1 billion at £956.7 million, equating to £2.6 million per day. The report by NHS Digital (formerly HSCIC), also shows that in the last financial year 49.7 million prescription items were dispensed in England for the management of diabetes. Diabetes medicines now make up 10.6 per cent of the total cost of prescribing in primary care in England, while the total annual spend on diabetes drugs has almost doubled in a decade, from £513.9 million in 2005/06 to £956.7 million today. Since 2007/08, diabetes drugs have accounted for the highest cost of all drug sections in the British National Formulary, while the number of prescription items dispensed in this category has also increased every year since 2005/06. This is in line with a steady increase year on year in the percentage of the population receving treatment for the condition. Analysis of the latest QOF report found that the percentage of GP patients being treated for diabetes has increased from 5.3 per cent in 2009/10 to 6.4 in 2014/15, amounting to a total of 2.9 million adults in England. The NHS Digital report also revealed regional variations, with Newham CCG having the highest percentage prescribing spend on diabetes drugs and North Tyneside CCG having the lowest. The three main diabetes treatment areas in 2015/16 in order of cost were antidiabetic drugs, insulin and diagnostic and monitoring devices. Continue reading >>
Diabetes Drugs In England Cost Nearly £1bn Last Year
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Diabetes Costs Soar As Rising Numbers Diagnosed
Soaring costs for diabetes drugs mean the NHS has doubled its spend in the last decade to nearly £1bn, as the number of people being diagnosed continues to rise. Around 2.9m people in the UK are being treated for diabetes, the latest NHS figures show, with one in 17 in Yorkshire suffering from the disease. This figure is rising steadily and means the NHS is now spending £2.6m a day on prescriptions - making diabetes the most expensive of all drug sectors. The Department of Health said it was taking “strong action” on tackling the condition, establishing the world’s first diabetes prevention programme to stop people getting it in the first place. A spokeswoman said: “We know childhood is the best place to start with a healthy lifestyle. Our comprehensive childhood obesity strategy will build on measures we are already taking, like the soft drinks industry levy.” An NHS report published yesterday shows the cost of diabetes drugs has risen by £88m in the last year, bringing the total cost of treating it to £956.7m. This 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 £513.9m. The highest spend was in Newham in London where the CCG spent 17.9 per cent of its budgets on diabetes drugs, compared to 7.4 per cent in North Tyneside. Across Yorkshire and the Humber, 6.6 per cent of the population suffer from diabetes, and the spend on treating it accounts for 10 per cent of the total budget. Prime Minister Theresa May is among the 8.7% of diabetics who have Type 1. Mrs May told of her “shock” when she was diagnosed three years ago, and must now inject herself with insulin at least twice a day for the rest of her life. But she insisted her illness “doesn’t affe Continue reading >>
