FoI Number
2024-561
Subject
Stolen Medicine
Date Received
13/12/2024
Request and Response

In the past three financial year (21/22, 22/23 and 23/24) :

  1. The number of times medicines and/or medical supplies have been reported or recorded stolen within NHS hospitals.

2021-2022 One

2022-2023 Zero

2023-2024 Zero

  1. The total value of the stolen goods and the highest value theft recorded.

£4.00 (Retrospective assumption based on today’s costs)

  1. Examples of the most common medicines/medical supplies stolen. And the unusual one(s).

Medicines with risk of misuse – controlled medicines in Schedules 2-5