How many free prescriptions have been issued a) in the last year and b) since the policy’s establishment?
Answered by Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care | Answered on 01/08/2025
Statistics on prescriptions are published on our StatsWales website: Prescribing
The latest published statistics show that in the financial year 2023-24, 84,922,673 items were prescribed by all primary care practitioners in Wales, through the NHS.
All items prescribed through the NHS in Wales have been free since 2007. Between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2024, a little over 1.3 billion items have been prescribed by all primary care practitioners in Wales, through the NHS.