Half of English women are taking prescribed medicines

UCL News UCL News home All news Student news Staff news UCL in the media UCL Opinion Services Services for staff Services - Get updates from UCL News. All channels - . Results published today in the latest Health Survey for England show that 50% of women and 43% of men reported taking at least one prescribed medicine in the past week. 22% of men and 24% of women reported taking at least three prescribed medicines in the past week. These figures exclude smoking cessation products and contraception. The Health Survey for England is an annual survey that monitors the health of the population, conducted by researchers from UCL and NatCen Social Research for the Health & Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC). The latest publication reports on prescribed medicines using combined data from the 2012 and 2013 surveys.