FOI – 2024-000268 Tamoxifen (HTML)

Date received – 16 July 2024 | Date responded – 31 July 2024

Request

Please can you provide per Health Board the total cost of Tamoxifen in 2013/2014 in 2022/2023.

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Please can you provide any known return on investment of Tamoxifen in 2013/2014 and in 2022/2023.

Response

I refer to your freedom of information request that we received on 16 July 2024 requesting the following information.

Please can you provide per Health Board the total cost of Tamoxifen in 2013/2014 and in 2022/2023.

Please can you provide any known return on investment of Tamoxifen in 2013/2014 and in 2022/2023.

We have now completed the search of our records and can provide you with the following information:

Under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Scotland Act, 2002 (FOISA) an organisation does not have to provide that information if it does not hold it. NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) does not hold any information relating to the cost of Tamoxifen per Health Board nor any information relating to any return on investment on Tamoxifen. You may wish to contact Public Health Scotland (PHS) at PHS.FOI@phs.scot as they hold the data on medicines dispensed in Scotland.

You may also find the information you are looking for on the PHS website:

Prescriptions in the Community - Datasets - Scottish Health and Social Care Open Data (nhs.scot)

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