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The figure includes all items issued by the NHS in England, except those given out in hospitals or on private prescriptions.
"There are over 1.2 billion prescription items issued in the UK each year, with the NHS spending over £15.5 billion on medication.
The proportion of all prescription items issued as repeats was identified by conducting searches on items issued as repeat and acute prescriptions.
The data used are based on the number of prescription items issued rather than number of identified patients.
About 75% of all prescribed items are 'repeats' [ 5], that is items issued without the patient seeing the doctor.
The number of repeat prescription items issued in the previous 12-month period will be used as an additional measure of comorbidity.
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Number of units of each item issued in the same time period per depot.
Thus, for all "problematic" items, issues with cultural adaption of the contents were considered, and improved formulations were suggested.
In the year of study 4,453,225 items were issued of which 3,444,769 were repeat prescriptions (77%) (13.1 items per patient per annum) and 1,008,456 (23%) (mean 3.8 items per patient per annum) as acute prescriptions.
All these items were issued in editions of three, plus one artist's proof.
"If walking sticks, knee braces or other items are issued to patients it is because there is a clear clinical need for them.
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