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Data Provider: Welsh Government National Statistics Summary of prescription items and cost by cluster deprivation quintile
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QuintileClusters with highest proportion of population living in most deprived areas = quintile 1. See metadata for more information.[Filter]
Click here to sortPopulationClick here to sortItems prescribedA small number of prescription items (less than 0.5%) could not be matched to clusters and are not included in the deprivation analysis. Therefore the total number of items and NIC for all quintiles combined will not equal the Wales totals presented in other StatsWales tables.Click here to sortNIC (£)A small number of prescription items (less than 0.5%) could not be matched to clusters and are not included in the deprivation analysis. Therefore the total number of items and NIC for all quintiles combined will not equal the Wales totals presented in other StatsWales tables.Click here to sortItems per headClick here to sortNIC per head (£)Click here to sortNIC per item (£)
1578,17915,159,787111,106,499.2126.2192.177.33
2716,04119,610,865146,561,302.2927.4204.687.47
3617,62315,493,664116,481,842.1225.1188.607.52
4712,18717,455,605134,735,747.4124.5189.197.72
5606,87814,849,638111,244,332.2124.5183.317.49

Metadata

Title

Summary of prescription items and net ingredient cost by cluster deprivation quintile

Last update

7 September 2022 7 September 2022

Next update

September 2023

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Prescribing Services, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership

Contact email

stats.healthinfo@gov.wales

Designation

National Statistics

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

Statistical quality

See associated Statistical Release for detailed notes, background and definitions.

General description

Cluster deprivation is based on the measure 'percentage of cluster population who live in the most deprived areas of Wales, measured by the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD)'. Full details of this measure are described in a statistical article and additional data is published on StatsWales.

The deprivation measure uses the WIMD 2019 and practice/cluster population data as at December 2021. The areas described as clusters in this table are groups of GP practices only and are sometimes referred to as GP collaboratives.

Keywords

Presriptions