Response Date:  03 Oct 2005

Under section 21 of the Act, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it 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.