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Respiratory Diseases: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of dry powder inhalers were prescribed by the NHS in the last year for which data is available.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
23 Jan 2025
Answer
27 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of dry powder inhalers were prescribed by the NHS in the last year for which data is available.

  2. 23 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 27 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The data below is based on figures published in the Prescription Cost Analysis. It includes all community dispensing in England, regardless of where they were prescribed, where the prescriptions have been submitted to the NHS Business Service Authority (N...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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