SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 14. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Governing Council learned this Thursday the report on the pharmaceutical expenditure of the Canary Islands Health Service corresponding to June 2022, a monthly payment in which 4,738,492 prescriptions were issued, with an average expenditure of 11.58 euros, which placed the bill pharmaceutical at 54,879,333.91 euros.
By Health areas, Gran Canaria issued 2,079,666 prescriptions last month, followed by Tenerife, with 2,008,422; Lanzarote, with 238,626; La Palma, with 183,969; Fuerteventura, with 159,064; La Gomera, with 46,028, and El Hierro, with 22,717.
Regarding the average expense per prescription, this indicator decreased by 1.65% compared to June 2021.
The highest expense was recorded in the Health area of La Gomera, with 12.89 euros, and the lowest in Fuerteventura, with 11.07 euros, in which the greatest decrease in average expense per prescription was also recorded (-2.74%), details a note from the Government.
COMMUNICATION TO THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH
The General Administration of the State establishes that, in order to standardize the information criteria of all the Autonomous Communities, the pharmaceutical expense that is communicated monthly to the Ministry of Health does not include the billing of dietotherapeutic products or the amount resulting from the application of the Decree-law 1/2020, of urgent measures that regulates aid for the acquisition of medicines financed by the National Health System (SNS) to people who have the status of Social Security pensioners and their beneficiaries, whose annual income is less than 18,000 euros.
Both concepts represented 1,883,247.81 and 671,496.86 euros, respectively, in the last monthly payment, so the expense that will be reported to the Ministry amounts to 52,996,086.1 euros.
