There should be zero homeopathy items being dispensed on the NHS, costing zero pounds but because the prescription cost documents are published every April I assume they capture part of the preceding year.
The new prescription costs were published today and can be found here: Prescription Cost Analysis - England 2019. For previous editions see this page.
The relevant bit is in this spreadsheet
Prescription Cost Analysis 2019 – Statistical summary tables [Excel: 3.8MB] - I used Edit / Find&Replace as a way to quickly find all instances of homeop via a whole workbook search. I also checked for the variant spelling homoeop but didn't find anything.
The Chemical Substances (ho!) tab gives the overview / average and it's in Row 1764 - 2,188 items were dispensed (last year 3,295) costing £48,109.32 (last year £55,044) with the cost per item having risen by about £5 to £21.99 (compared with £16.71 last year).
The NHS dispensed a third fewer homeopathy items in 2019 than it did in 2018. Hopefully this asymptotic crawl to zero will speed up a bit in future.
Image above shows the number of homeopathic items dispensed and the cost, click to enlarge or use the text version below.
Table One
| Dispensed items | Of which class 2 items | Total cost (£) | Cost per item (£) |
| 2,188 | 0 | 48,109.32 | 21.99 |
More detail in the Presentations tab, Rows 11708 and 11709.
Table Two
| Dispensed items | Of which class 2 items | Total quantity | Total cost (£) | Cost per item (£) | Cost per quantity (£) | Quantity per item |
| 529 | 0 | 49,491 | 3,231.72 | 6.11 | 0.07 | 93.56 |
| 1,659 | 0 | 120,544 | 44,877.60 | 27.05 | 0.37 | 72.66 |
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