Department of health publishes 2002 prescription statistics

National Statistics on NHS prescriptions in 2002 were published today in a Department of Health Statistical Bulletin.

The bulletin ‘Prescriptions dispensed in the community, Statistics for 1992 to 2002:England’ covers all prescriptions dispensed in the
community and provides information by leading therapeutic categories, details of the number and cost of free prescription items (e.g. for
children and young people and elderly people) and information on generic prescribing.