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Diabetes drugs costing NHS nearly £1 billion per year

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The net ingredient cost (NIC) of drugs for diabetes has increased by £88.0 million in 2015/16, bringing the annual primary care prescribing spend on this drug classification to £956.7 million – around £2.6 million per day, new figures by NHS Digital have revealed. The report, Prescribing for Diabetes 2005/06 to 2015/16, also shows that in the last financial year, 49.7 million prescription items were dispensed in England for the treatment and management of diabetes.  The £956.7 million spend makes up 10.6% of the total cost of all prescribing in primary care in England, and is almost double the cost of

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