Table 2

Cost-related data of community pharmacy-based minor ailment schemes

Publication	Price year	Total number of pharmacies involved in the scheme	Total number of scheme consultations	Total cost (£) of the scheme	Cost measures included in total cost computation	Duration of data collection, months	Scheme mean cost per consultation, £	Cost measures included in computation of mean cost per consultation	Mean cost (£) per consultation: other services
Publication	Price year	Total number of pharmacies involved in the scheme	Total number of scheme consultations	Total cost (£) of the scheme	Cost measures included in total cost computation	Duration of data collection, months	Scheme mean cost per consultation, £		Service	Cost (£)
Anonymous, 200151	2000/2001	13	Unclear	5424.00	Unclear	Unclear	5.58	Consultation fee and medicines supplied	GP^a	10.00

Whittington et al, 200150	1999/2000	8	576	9152.00	Set-up and running, including administrative, costs	6	1.44 to 1.85^b	Pharmacists’ time only	GP	2.91 to 6.87

Flint and Rivers, 200349	2002	12	3686	12 942.00	Consultation fee and medicines costs	6	3.51	Consultation fee and medicines costs

Magirr, 200348	2002/2003	35	3073	16 015.00	Consultation fee and medicines costs	14	5.21	Consultation fee and medicines costs

Duggan, 200446	2002/2003	14	4927^{^c}	36 669.96	Unclear	16	6.88	Unclear

NHS Islington, 200445	2004	23	871	Unclear	Unclear	7	8.10	Unclear	GP^a	13.00
									GP in walk-in clinics^a	15.00
									Practice nurse^a	7.00
									NHS Direct^a	15.00

Parkinson, 200444	2003	5	Unclear	Unclear	Consultation fee and medicines costs	6.10	Unclear	GP^{^a}	10.42

Anonymous, 200543	2005	47	3135	49 838.72	Consultation fee, medicines costs, set-up and running administrative costs	6	9.20 to 15.90^{^d}	Consultation fee, medicines costs

Banjo, 200542	2004/2005	4	223	1877.99	Consultation fee and medicines costs	6	8.39	Consultation fee and medicines costs

Parkinson, 200541	2003/2004	17	10 671	73 879.00	Consultation fee and medicines costs	12	6.64	Unclear

Horgan and McKieran, 200640	2005/2006	6	1046	8412.74	Consultation fee, medicines costs, and material costs (unclear whether set up or running)	12	8.04	Consultation fee, medicines costs, and material costs (unclear whether set up or running)

NHS City and Hackney, 200639	2005/2006	46	33 494	286 181.09	Consultation fee and medicines costs	12	8.54	Consultation fee and medicines costs

Black, 200837	2006/2007		38 642	228 276.00	Unclear	12	5.90	Unclear	Emergency department^{^a}	45.00
		102							Walk-in centre ^{^a}	18.00
		102							GP^{^a}	15.00

Gandecha and Butt, 200836	2006/2007	19	2675	15 123.00	Consultation fee and medicines costs	14	5.65	Consultation fee and medicines costs	GP^{^a}	11.50

Gray, 2008^{35,^e}	2008		2296	144 036.00	Consultation fee and medicines costs	12	6.84	Consultation fee and medicines costs	GP^{^a}	24.00
			2296	144 036.00	Consultation fee and medicines costs	12	6.84	Consultation fee and medicines costs	Walk-in centres^{^a}	23.00
		14							NHS Direct telephone calls	25.00^{^a}

Celino and Gray, 200934	2008/2009	∼30	7113	37 000.00	Consultation fee and medicines costs	20	5.20	Consultation fee and medicines costs	Minor ailment schemes in other areas	6.63

NHS Leeds, 200932	2008/2009	54	26 049	136 771.42	Unclear	12	5.25	Unclear

Sewak, 200931	2008/0909	294	308 199	1 994 261.00	Consultation fee and medicines costs	12	6.50	Consultation fee and medicines costs

Baqir et al, 201030	2010	Unclear	Unclear	4100.00	Unclear	1	Unclear	Unclear	GP^{^a}	36.00
Baqir et al, 201030	2010	Unclear	Unclear	4100.00	Unclear	1	Unclear	Unclear	Emergency department^{^a}	111.00

Petrou, 201029	2008/2009	40	20 408	122 772.91	Unclear	24	6.02	Unclear

Sim, 201028	2009		Unclear	1346.40	Consultation fee	1	3.40	Consultation fee	GP^{^a}	36.00
Sim, 201028		185							Emergency department^{^a}	111.00

Baqir et al, 201127	2010		Unclear	1346.40	Consultation fee	1	6.03	Consultation fee and medicines costs	GP^{^a}	36.00
		185							Emergency department^{^a}	111.00
		185							Health visitor	11.70

Mary Seacole Research Centre, 201126	2009	65	Unclear	271 961.50	Unclear	12	4.48	Unclear	GP^{^a}	21.40

↵a Data from reference sources.
↵b Based on average scheme consultation length of 3.19 minutes.
↵c Total number of consultation data refers to 15 months only.
↵d £15.90 with setup and running administrative costs.
↵e Total number of consultation data refers to the total recorded in 6 months from 14 pharmacies, whereas the total cost refers to data from 60 pharmacies collected in 12 months.