Top 10 most prescribed generic drugs

01 October 2010

Cardiovascular therapies dominate generic prescribing in England, figures from the NHS Information Centre show.

Drugs for cardiovascular disease (CVD) make up four of the five highest places among the top 10 most prescribed generic drugs

The thyroid treatment levothyroxine sodium is the only non-CVD treatment encroaching in the top five places.

Numbers of prescriptions for two proton-pump inhibitors (lansoprazole and omeprazole) are almost equal and scrape in to the tail end of the top 10, though if combined these two would be amongst the top three most prescribed generic drugs.

Top 10 most prescribed generic drugs
1.	Simvastatin	37.3 million
2.	Aspirin	33.9 million
3.	Levothyroxine sodium	21.9 million
4	Ramipril	19.3 million
5.	Bendroflumethiazide	18.8 million
6.	Paracetamol	18.8 million
7.	Salbutamol	18.7 million
8.	Omeprazole	18.3 million
9.	Lansoprazole	14.9 million
10.	Co-codamol	14.6 million

Source: NHS Information Centre

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