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What is the price of atorvastatin in England and Wales?

Medicine prices in England and Wales, from NHS Business Services Authority. This source is answered live, so the page shows how to ask, not a number.

Reimbursement prices set by the official source.

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Where this comes from

Source
Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) Monthly Administrative Data, published by NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA)
Licence
Open Government Licence 3.0 (United Kingdom); NHSBSA's dataset page adds: "You may use the data freely, provided that you attribute the source." It also asks anyone producing a press or broadcast story from the data to contact its communications team; that is a request, not a licence condition.
Attribution
Source: NHS Business Services Authority, "Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) Monthly Administrative Data", NHSBSA Open Data Portal, https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/prescription-cost-analysis-pca-monthly-data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Totals are passed on as published; the average cost per unit (NIC divided by quantity) is calculated by ProofPrice.
How fresh the source is
Monthly, published about two months after the month ends (July data appears in September); each answer states the month it describes
Limits
This is the NHS reimbursement price of the drug itself: Net Ingredient Cost, the basic price (Drug Tariff or list price) times the quantity, "before deduction of any dispenser discount" (NHSBSA). It leaves out pharmacy dispensing fees, VAT, discounts and the patient's prescription charge, and it is not the price a pharmacy paid its wholesaler or a private (non-NHS) price. England only (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland publish their own data); community dispensing only, not hospitals, prisons or private prescriptions. NHSBSA labels the monthly series management information, not an official statistic, and says prescribers' unsubmitted or disallowed items are excluded. A name query averages every strength and form dispensed under that name, weighted by quantity; the most dispensed presentations are listed so the mix is visible. NHSBSA asks anyone planning to publish the data to contact DataServicesSupport@nhsbsa.nhs.uk so that figures are not misunderstood.
Rule
A figure built from records is shown only when at least 5 records sit behind it; official statistics are shown as such, with their reference period. See how we earn trust and the method.

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