Top drugs used in diabetes in England 2021

This statistic displays the leading ten drugs used in the treatment of diabetes in England, in 2021, by number of dispensed prescription items. In that year, the leading drug in the treatment of diabetes was metformin hydrochloride, with approximately 23.4 million items dispensed.

Leading 10 drugs used in the treatment of diabetes in England in 2021, by number of items

Characteristic	Number of items
Metformin hydrochloride	23,361,905
Glucose blood testing reagents	6,483,760
Gliclazide	6,293,634
Linagliptin	2,431,682
Sitagliptin	2,295,240
Empagliflozin	2,156,065
Insulin aspart	2,069,327
Dapagliflozin	1,696,257
Alogliptin	1,621,542
Insulin glargine	1,620,223

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Release date

June 2022

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Region

United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

The statistic is based on number of prescription items dispensed. 'Items' is the number of times a product appears on a prescription form. Prescription forms include both paper prescriptions and electronic messages.

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