Surgery data 2

Summary

A request was made to Manx Care for prescription data broken down by surgery and pharmacy for the past three years. The authority disclosed all requested information, providing detailed statistics for 13 surgeries and 23 pharmacies covering the periods from 2018/19 to 2021/22.

Key Facts

• Manx Care provided prescription issuance data for 13 surgeries and dispensing data for 23 pharmacies.
• The data covers the financial years 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, and the first 10 months of 2021/22.
• Ramsey Group Practice issued the highest number of prescriptions among surgeries, totaling 126,181 in 2018/19.
• Boots pharmacy dispensed the highest number of prescriptions, totaling 80,115 in 2018/19.
• The response noted that community pharmacies also dispense prescriptions for outpatient clinics, nursing, dental, and mental health services.

Data Disclosed

• 2018/19
• 2019/20
• 2020/21
• 2021/22
• 126,181
• 80,115
• 681,827
• 791,687
• 2347834
• 2022-03-24
• 2022-04-12

Original Request

1. Please could you state how many prescriptions were issued each year for the past three years, broken down by each surgery? 2. Please could state how many prescriptions were dispensed each year for the past three years, broken down by pharmacy?

Data Tables (2)

Full Response Text

Manx Care Noble’s Hospital, Strang Braddan, Isle of Man IM4 4R (01624) 650 000

Our ref: 2347834 12th April 2022

Dear ###

We write further to your request which was received on 24th March 2022, which states:

"1. Please could you state how many prescriptions were issued each year for the past three years, broken down by each surgery? 2. Please could state how many prescriptions were dispensed each year for the past three years, broken down by pharmacy?"

Our Response 1. Please could you state how many prescriptions were issued each year for the past three
years, broken down by each surgery?

. Surgery 2018/19 2019/2022 2020/2021 2021/2022 (10 months) Ballasalla Medical Centre 36,006 38,128 36,041 34,198 Castletown Medical Centre 36,968 32,731 30,893 33,036 Finch Hill Health Centre 25,581 27,455 38,770 35,276 Hailwood Medical Practice Llc 54,268 55,270 57,263 54,289 Kensington Group Practice 75,759 60,658 51,408 45,563 Laxey & Village Walk Health Centres 64,418 67,314 67,376 60,886 Palatine Group Practice 81,193 89,568 83,300 70,758 Peel Group Practice 69,653 73,719 72,364 64,178 Ramsey Group Practice 126,181 130,571 129,573 119,801 Ramsey West Practice 2,869 4,104 3,499 2,209 Snaefell Surgery 42,407 45,215 44,206 35,014 Southern Group Practice 66,524 70,853 67,744 60,697 Total 681,827 695,586 682,437 615,905

1. Please could state how many prescriptions were dispensed each year for the past three years, broken down by pharmacy? Please Note: Prescriptions issued by Community Pharmacies (who issue all outpatient clinic prescriptions), some nursing prescriptions e.g. Hospice and District Nursing, all Dental Prescriptions, Community Mental Health and the Child and Adolescent Services all use prescriptions,which also go to pharmacies. Please quote the reference number 2347834 in any future communications.

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