Antidepressants England rising @ up to 12.5% per year - full data here

How did we arrive at our figures? First, we gathered prescription data from the online database managed by the NHS Information Centre.

This quarterly information was compiled to get annual numbers covering 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010 the most recent full year with available data. In order to make the numbers comparable, we then linked the raw prescription numbers to the ONS mid-year population estimates.



This allowed us to calculate the prescriptions per 100,000 figure in the data below, which controls for the different sizes of PCTs, if not their different levels of wealth, employment and general illness.


DATA: download the full spreadsheet


http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdEhkM0hoaWVieC12Z1Z5VUtNc2tSeGc&hl=en#gid=0