Diabetes prescribing rises by a third over five years

The number of prescriptions for drugs that treat type 2 diabetes that were dispensed by pharmacies in England has risen by one third (33%) in five years, according to research carried out by analytic database provider EXASOL.

The researchers analysed a government dataset which included every prescription handed out by pharmacies since 2010, and found that in 2011 26 million type 2 diabetes drug prescriptions were dispensed, rising to 35 …