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Price concessions data for CCGs, including October 2017 estimate
We have been writing a lot recently about the effect of price concessions on the NHS primary care drugs bill, and on the problems community pharmacy are facing.
We’ve been asked for some CCG-level data, and so here it is; both for the confirmed data for April-September 2017, and for an estimate for October, which is based on October price concession data with September’s prescribing data.
(edit) We’ve also been asked how the costs were calculated. We calculate the difference in the unit cost, i.e. (price concession cost per pack - DT cost per pack)/pack size and then multiply by the prescription quantity for each affected presentation. Please note that these calculations are based on Net Ingredient Cost (NIC) not Actual Cost, and so the impact to CCGs will be slightly lower (about 7%).