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Request Refernce:  276226   
Request Date:  03 Jun 2005
Hi. Please can you tell me whether the PPA has data on how frequently various drugs are prescribed? I am planning a study of sound-alike drug names to better understand what makes them so. Prescription frequency would be a useful measure of which drug names are commonly used and which are used less often, which is likely to be one factor affecting drug name confusions. Can you tell me whether I could get information on prescription frequency from the PPA (preferably in some computer-readable electronic format), or if not, can you suggest who might have such information? Thanks.

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Response Date:  16 Jun 2005

Under the Act, we are not required to provide information which is already reasonably accessible to you. The information you requested is available on the internet from the Department of Health?s web-site, the address of which is (http://www.publications.doh.gov.uk/prescriptionstatistics/index.htm). The information is contained in the Prescription Cost Analysis reports listed there.




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