Annual funding of food thickeners Aptamil and Nutilis
20 July 2020
Dear [name and contact details withheld]
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
Thank you for your email of 22 June 2020 requesting information about Aptamil Feed Thickener and Nutilis. You asked for the total number of PHARMAC funded prescriptions annually for both products.
Your request has been considered pursuant to the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA).
This information is below, for the past six years.
Please note that PHARMAC only holds information about funded dispensing of Aptamil Feed Thickener and Nutilis, not about the prescribing of it. This data excludes the 'Extensively hydrolysed formula' chemicals. The data set is incomplete for 2020, as the data was extracted on 31 May 2020.
|
Calendar Year |
Nutilis Scripts Dispensed |
Aptamil Scripts Dispensed |
|---|---|---|
|
2015 |
318 |
56 |
|
2016 |
345 |
53 |
|
2017 |
327 |
29 |
|
2018 |
407 |
29 |
|
2019 |
420 |
57 |
|
2020 |
186 |
16 |
We trust that this information answers your queries. We are making our information more freely available, so we will now publish selected OIA responses (excluding personal details) on our website. Please get in touch with us if you have any questions about this.
Yours sincerely
Rachel Read
Manager, Policy and Government Services