Monday 01 December 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8924
Date Request Received: 26/09/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 30/10/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Expired drugs
Request Category: Companies
| Question Number 1: This is an information request relating to the cost of drugs going out of date. Please include the following information, broken down by the following financial years: 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 • What is the total value of drugs that have been disposed of due to going past their expiry date in each year | |
| Answer To Question 1: The team have calculated the following which includes main inpatient pharmacy and aseptic services, the top 5’s are unused, bespoke, patient specific, chemotherapy which was categorised as expired if it was ordered but not administered to the patient. 22/23 £196,564.00 23/24 £215,233.00 24/25 £311,658.00 | |
| Question Number 2: • The top five drugs disposed of in each year measured by the value of the drugs disposed | |
| Answer To Question 2: The team have calculated the following which includes main inpatient pharmacy and aseptic services, the top 5’s are unused, bespoke, patient specific, chemotherapy which was categorised as expired if it was ordered but not administered to the patient. 22/23 £196,564.00 Dostarlimab Isatuximab 700mg/250ml Pembrolizumab 200mg / 100ml Ifosfamide + Mesna 4.01 – 6mg Pemetrexed 501-1000mg 23/24 £215,233.00 Pembrolizumab 200mg / 200ml Perjeta 420mg vial Pertuzumab 420mg / 250ml Vedolizumab 300mg / 250ml Pertuzumab 420mg / 250ml Prefill 24/25 £311,658.00 Mifamurtide 4mg vial Nivolumab 480mg / 100ml Perjeta 420mg Vial TPN Refeeding bag + vitamins Entyvio 300mg vial | |
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