24 mai 2018 · It is an expensive business: in 2014 the former National Treatment Agency (NTA) estimated the cost to the NHS of treating drug misuse at ...
How many medicines are wasted in the UK each year?
- It has been estimated £300 million of NHS prescribed medicines are wasted each year. This paper highlights the issue of pharmaceutical waste in the UK, and outlines the difficulty in measuring and quantifying types and volumes of waste. The report also looks at definitions and causes of waste .
How much does the Scottish Government spend on drug and alcohol services?
- The Scottish Government announced an additional £20 million per year for drug and alcohol services, for the next three years in 2018, taking the annual funding to £73.8 million. The cost...
How can the NHS improve value for money on medicines?
- •Over time the NHS has used a number of policies to promote value for money in spending on medicines, such as encouraging the widespread use of cheaper generic drugs. Opportunities to generate additional value remain, such as increasing the uptake of biosimilars (which resemble generics for biological products).
Each year in the UK, drugs cost society ꌐ.7 billion in policing, healthcare and crime, with drug-fuelled theft alone costing ਸ਼ billion a year. Research shows that for every spent on treatment, an estimated ਲ.50 is saved.