FOI_8471

Internal Reference Number: FOI_8471

Date Request Received: 18/02/2025 00:00:00

Date Request Replied To: 12/03/2025 00:00:00

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Request Summary: Trust Processes to Reduce Medication Waste

Request Category: Companies


Question Number 1: I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information regarding your Trust’s processes to reduce medication waste. Please may you provide me with an answer to the following: 1. Does your Trust have a formal policy on medicines waste reduction? i. Yes/No

Answer To Question 1: No

Question Number 2: 2. Have any sustainability or environmental impact assessments been conducted regarding your Trust’s pharmaceutical waste i. Yes/No ii. If yes, please provide a brief summary of key findings.

Answer To Question 2: No

Question Number 3: 3. Do you currently employ any staff specifically to support medicines waste? i. Yes/No ii. If yes, how many full time equivalents do you employ?

Answer To Question 3: No

Question Number 4: 4. How often does your organisation report on the management of waste (including cost) at Board level? i. Annually/Quarterly/Monthly/Never/Other (please state)

Answer To Question 4: Annually

Question Number 5: 5. For each of the hospitals in your Trust, what is the value of medication you have had to waste in the last 2 financial years? This the value of medication that was the property of the hospital at the point it was wasted, i.e. the cost of medication that expired before int could be used.

Answer To Question 5: The value of stock wasted for 24/25 =£236,379 23/24 =£189,247

Question Number 6: 6. For each hospital in your Trust, what has been your total drug spend over the past two financial years?

Answer To Question 6: 2023-24 £32,087k 2024-25 to Month 11 £32,149k

Question Number 7: 7. For the last two financial years combined what is the drug that you have wasted the most of, and what was the total cost?

Answer To Question 7: Pertuzumab 420mg in Normal saline had the highest value of stock wasted @ £14.5k

Question Number 8: 8. Have any sustainability or environmental impact assessments been conducted regarding your Trust’s pharmaceutical waste i. Yes/No ii. If yes, please provide a brief summary of key findings.

Answer To Question 8: No

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