PHS FOI 2025-002053
- Date of request
- 28 January 2025
- Date of response
- 25 February 2025
- FOI request ID
- PHS FOI 2025-002053
- Mental health
- Pharmacy and prescribing
- Population health
Request
- By financial year, from 2015-16 to present, the total number of patients in Scotland given at least one prescription for antidepressants
- By financial year, from 2015-16 to present, total net ingredient cost and total number of prescription items dispensed for antidepressants in Scotland
- As of 1 January, for each of 2015 to 2025, how many patients in Scotland had an active antidepressant prescription?
- By financial year, from 2015-16 to present, the Defined Daily Dose per 1,000 people in Scotland, as per the WHO definition (https://www.who.int/tools/atc-ddd-toolkit/about-ddd)
- 1-4 broken down by sex, and broken down by age bracket to the level of granularity you have stored