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FOI 2024 041 - Medicine usage

 

Information Requested:

I would be grateful if you could send me an extract from your hospital pharmacy database showing the quantity of medicines usage by Health Board and Trust, for all hospitals in Wales.   

 

Fields to include in the data extract from the hospital pharmacy database: 

Field 

  

Calendar year 

  

Calendar month 

  

Name of Health Board / Trust 

  

Drug substance (INN name of drug) 

  

Drug product pack name 

Virtual or actual product pack name 

Quantity unit of measure (UOM) 

e.g. tablet, mL, vial,  

the unit in which the quantity can be measured 

Quantity issued 

 

 

Filters 

Time period: Jan 2019 to Feb 2024, or the latest available month – prostate cancer, ovarian cancer & asthma drugs 

  

Drugs – breast cancer 

Abemaciclib (Verzenios) 

Palbociclib (Ibrance) 

Ribociclib (Kisqali) 

Alpelisib (Piqray) 

Fulvestrant (fulvestrant or Faslodex) 

  

Drugs – prostate cancer 

Abiraterone (Zytiga + generics) 

Apalutamide (Erleada) 

Cabazitaxel (Jevtana + generics) 

Darolutamide (Nubeqa) 

Enzalutamide (Xtandi) 

  

Drugs – ovarian cancer 

Niraparib (Zejula) 

Olaparib (Lynparza) 

Rucaparib (Rubraca) 

  

Drugs – Severe asthma 

Benralizumab (Fasenra) 

Dupilumab (Dupixent) 

Mepolizumab (Nucala) 

Omalizumab (Xolair) 

Reslizumab (Cinqaero) 

Tezepelumab (Tezspire) 

Information provided for the answer:

Thank you for your request dated 1st March 2024. 

 

Public Health Wales does not procure or prescribe these drugs and therefore does not hold this information. 

 

Public Health Wales is the public health service for Wales and as such is an independent NHS Trust. Therefore, do not have access to this information. As an organisation we have no jurisdiction over the activities of Health Boards and other NHS Wales organisations. This means we frequently do not have access to the data that they produce.  I have provided contact details for all the Health Boards below, you would need to contact them individually for the information they hold.  

 

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board 

http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/866/page/39187 

 

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board 

http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/861/page/39134 

 

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board 

http://www.cardiffandvaleuhb.wales.nhs.uk/freedom-of-information-new  

 

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board  

https://cwmtafmorgannwg.wales/foi/ 

 

Swansea Bay University Health Board 

https://sbuhb.nhs.wales/about-us1/foia/ 

 

Hywel Dda University Health Board 

http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/862/page/52085 

 

Powys Teaching Health Board 

http://www.powysthb.wales.nhs.uk/freedom-of-information 

 

Velindre University NHS Trust 

Making a FOI request - Velindre University NHS Trust 

 

I am very sorry we are unable to help on this occasion. 

 


If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request and wish to make a complaint or request a review of the decision, you should write to the Corporate Complaints Manager, Public Health Wales NHS Trust, 3, Number 2, Capital Quarter, Tyndall Street, Cardiff, CF10 4BZ.

If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint or review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the Trust. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner for Wales
2nd Floor
Churchill House
Churchill Way
Cardiff
CF10 2HH

Telephone: 029 2067 8400
Email: wales@ico.org.uk