FOI-03852

Thank you for your request for information about the following: ##Request ‘Can you please provide me with an updated analysis for the period 12 months to March 2026: Number of Unique Identified Patients prescribed and dispensed in England an appliance in either Elastic Hosiery (BNF Section 2107) or Lymphoedema Garments (BNF Section 2127) aggregated by Financial Year, by ICB and by subICB as per FOI-02844 I also request a breakdown, in the same format and the same date range, using the attached spreadsheet: Wraps using the AMPP code highlighted Compression hosiery applicator using the AMPP code highlighted British standard hosiery using the BNF code highlighted’ The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 21 May 2026. We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). ##Our response I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds the information you have requested and a copy of the information is attached. Please read the below notes to ensure correct understanding of the data. __NHSBSA__ NHS Prescription Services process prescriptions for Pharmacy Contractors, Appliance Contractors, Dispensing Doctors and Personal Administration with information then used to make payments to pharmacists and appliance contractors in England for prescriptions dispensed in primary care settings (other arrangements are in place for making payments to Dispensing Doctors and Personal Administration). This involves processing over 1 billion prescription items and payments totalling over £9 billion each year. The information gathered from this process is then used to provide information on costs and trends in prescribing in England and Wales to over 25,000 registered NHS and Department of Health and Social Care users. __This dataset__ __Main Request__ The data provides a unique identifiable patient count, split by ICB (Integrated Care Board), for individuals prescribed any appliance listed under either BNF Section 2107 (Elastic Hosiery) or any appliance listed under BNF Section 2127 (Lymphoedema Garments). __Supplementary Request__ The data provides a unique identifiable patient count, split by ICB (Integrated Care Board), for individuals prescribed any appliance in the lists provided by the requestor: __AMPP SNOMED codes for wraps__ '19988111000001102', '19987311000001101', '19987911000001100', '19987711000001102', '19987511000001107', '19987111000001103', '19986311000001104', '19986911000001103', '19986711000001100', '19986511000001105', '19995911000001109', '19995111000001106', 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'10120211000001104', '10119911000001107', '10119511000001100', '10119211000001103', '42965211000001106', '23918411000001107', '23918211000001108', '34645611000001108', '34645211000001106', '34644011000001100', '34644811000001106', '34644511000001108', '34644211000001105', '34768111000001108', '34768711000001109', '34768511000001104', '34768311000001105', '25664611000001108', '42626411000001109', '9760111000001108', '37645011000001105', '37645311000001108', '37645511000001102', '18094111000001101', '21379211000001108', '21379411000001107', '41001111000001108', '41000911000001104', '17083211000001103', '17083011000001108', '17082811000001105', '31031211000001109', '31031011000001104', '31030811000001102', '42745311000001101', '30744611000001101', '35870011000001106', '35870611000001104', '35870411000001102', '35870211000001101', '34767311000001109', '34767911000001105', '34767811000001100', '34767711000001108', '17084111000001106' __BNF Codes for British Standard Hosiery__ '21070410111', '21070410110', '21070410121', '21070410131', '21070410120', '21070510160', '21070510110', '21070530130', '21070530110', '21070510180', '21070510130', '21070530150', '21070510120', '21070530140', '21070530120', '21070510190', '21070510200', '21070510140', '21070530160', '21070610160', '21070610110', '21070620230', '21070610180', '21070610130', '21070630130', '21070610170', '21070610120', '21070620240', '21070610190', '21070610200', '21070610140', '21070630110', '21070630120' __Data Source__ NHSBSA Data Warehouse The Data excludes: • Items not dispensed, disallowed and those returned to the contractor for further clarification. • Prescriptions prescribed and dispensed in Prisons, Hospitals and Private prescriptions. • Items prescribed but not presented for dispensing or not submitted to NHS Prescription Services by the dispenser. • Items supplied under NHS pharmacy advanced services. __Time Period__ Financial Year 2025/2026 __Organisation Data__ The dataset only includes appliances that were both prescribed and dispensed within the community in England. Unidentified Doctors relates to prescription forms which contained a prescriber code that could not be allocated to an ICB. For example, the prescriber code was illegible. This has been included for completeness of data. __Patient Identification__ Where patient identifiable figures have been reported they are based on the information captured during the prescription processing activities. Please note, patient details cannot be captured from every prescription form and based on the criteria used for this analysis, patient information (NHS number) was only available for 91.54% of prescription items. The figures for the number of identifiable patients should not be combined and reported at any other level than provided as this may result in the double-counting of patients. For example, a single patient could appear in the results for multiple ICBs. __AMPP SNOMED codes in the supplementary request__ -1 in the SNOMED Code column indicates a product that has been processed and priced at Virtual Medicinal Product (VMP) level, rather than Actual Medicinal Product Pack (AMPP) level, so we do not hold an AMPP SNOMED code against them. These products are included in the dataset because their BNF code is on the requester's list of British Standard Hosiery items. __Data Queries__ Please contact [email protected] ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data. __Reusing the data and copyright__ If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data please contact [email protected] . This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented. 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