Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee

MUR Statistics

Latest NHS Prescription Services figures of MURs conducted published are detailed below. These figures relate to England only:

Month	Number	Value (£)
April 2010	148,630	4,161,634
May 2010	158,401	4,435,236
June 2010	160,359	4,490,052
July 2010	166,511	4,662,314
August 2010	155,405	4,351,340
September 2010	170,753	4.781,084
October 2010	176,741	4,948,748
November 2010	193,005	5,404,140
December 2010	137,022	3,836,616
January 2011	196,545	5,503,260
February 2011	215,387	6,030,836
March 2011	223,476	6,257,330
TOTAL	2,102,235	58,862,590

Month	Number	Value (£)
April 2011	175,674	4,918,872
May 2011	196,376	5,498,527
June 2011	227,865	6,380,220
July 2011	213,776	5,985,719
August 2011	203,182	5,689,087
September 2011	236,753	6,629,075
October 2011	167,573	4,692,044
November 2011
December 2011
January 2012
February 2012
March 2012
TOTAL	1,421,198	39,793,543

Number of pharmacies in England that claimed MUR payments from the NHS Prescription Services:

Month	Number of Pharmacies
November 2010	7,973
December 2010	7,265
January 2011	7,809
February 2011	7,819
March 2011	7,691
April 2011	8,057
May 2011	8,294
June 2011	8,484
July 2011	8,500
August 2011	8,393
September 2011	8,567
October 2011	8,385

PSNC collates the number of pharmacists who successfully completed competency assessment for MURs from the main HEIs, on a monthly basis:

Month	Number of Pharmacists Accredited
February 2011	24,940
March 2011	25,075
April 2011	25,239
May 2011	25,529
June 2011	25,863
July 2011	25,964
August 2011	26,216
September 2011	26,400
October 2011	26,588
November 2011	26,850
December 2011	27,019
January 2012	27,133

PSNC have collated the average number of MURs conducted per pharmacy claiming MUR payment and the average number of MURs conducted per pharmacy in England. These figures are based on NHS Prescription Services data.

Month	MUR/Claiming Pharmacy*	MUR/Pharmacy^
April 2010	20.13	14.02
May 2010	21.06	14.90
June 2010	21.25	15.02
July 2010	21.68	15.53
August 2010	20.41	14.52
September 2010	21.95	15.87
October 2010	22.18	16.41
November 2010	24.22	17.85
December 2010	18.93	12.66
January 2011	25.38	18.24
February 2011	27.60	19.81
March 2011	29.04	20.47

Month	MUR/Claiming Pharmacy*	MUR/Pharmacy^
April 2011	21.87	16.13
May 2011	23.83	18.04
June 2011	27.02	20.91
July 2011	25.30	19.57
August 2011	24.29	18.50
September 2011	27.77	21.54
October 2011	20.01	15.16
November 2011
December 2011
January 2012
February 2012
March 2012

*Number of MURs per pharmacy claiming MUR payments
^Number of MURs per pharmacy in England

Breakdown of MURs by LPC/PCT area

NHS Prescription Services figures of MURs conducted in each PCT area are collated into LPC areas in the document(s) below.

MUR LPC Breakdown (October 2011) (PDF Format)

MUR LPC Breakdown (September 2011) (PDF Format)

MUR LPC Breakdown (August 2011) (PDF Format)

MUR LPC Breakdown (July 2011) (PDF Format)

MUR LPC Breakdown (June 2011) (PDF Format)

MUR LPC Breakdown (May 2011) (PDF Format)

MUR LPC Breakdown (April 2011) (PDF Format)

MUR LPC Breakdown (March 2011) (PDF Format)

MUR LPC Breakdown (February 2011) (PDF Format)

MUR LPC Breakdown (January 2011) (PDF Format)

MUR LPC Breakdown (December 2010) (PDF Format)

MUR LPC Breakdown (November 2010) (PDF Format)

MUR LPC Breakdown (2010/11) (Excel Format)

MUR LPC Breakdown (2011/12) (Excel Format)

MUR Statistics by LPC from April 2005 are available in the NHS Prescription Statistics Archive.

Click here to view the NHS Statistics page.

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