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Data Provider: Welsh Government National Statistics Emergency medicines supply - reasons for consultation
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Measure[Filtered]
Measure1
Reason[Filter]
Year(Descending)[Filter]
Click here to sortLost or misplaced medicineClick here to sortNot able to collect from usual pharmacyClick here to sortNot ordered in timeClick here to sortOn holiday and medication forgottenClick here to sortPrescription not available in the GP practice for collection
2023-2410,8914,41747,74310,17028,745
2022-237,8994,74136,5618,98023,377
2021-224,8863,37721,9177,98414,583
2020-212,8202,17412,0362,95211,825
2019-201,7221,9828,2665,8395,833
2018-191,1421,3255,5486,1563,644
2017-188941,1104,7906,1382,974

Metadata

Title

Emergency medicines supply - reasons for consultation

Last update

29 November 2024 29 November 2024

Next update

November 2025

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Prescribing Services, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership

Contact email

stats.healthinfo@gov.wales

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Wales

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

The emergency medicine supply service enables a pharmacist to supply a patient with their regular prescription-only medicines in emergency situations.

Data shows the number of emergency medicines supply consultations broken down by what the reason for accessing the service.

Data is based on claims made by pharmacies for providing the service.

The data is claim based, therefore the same patient may be counted in the data multiple times if they used the service multiple times.


Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

2017-18 onwards

Users, uses and context

See quality report under 'Background Information' at the weblink

Rounding applied

none

Revisions information

none

Keywords

Community pharmacy pharmacies emergency medicines supply

Statistical quality

See quality report under 'Background Information' at the weblink