Question reference: S6W-26392
- Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for Perthshire North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 21 March 2024
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Current status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 16 April 2024
Question
To ask the Scottish Government on how many occasions the treatment Olaparib has been prescribed in each NHS board area since it was approved for use by the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) in 2021.
Answer
Neither the Scottish Government nor Public Health Scotland (PHS) hold this information centrally. The majority of data held by PHS on Olaparib (Lynparza®) is on the quantity issued within hospital settings rather than on the number of prescriptions, only a very small number of prescriptions for Olaparib (Lynparza®) are held within their primary care prescribing dataset.