The impact of the ‘Better Care Better Value’ prescribing policy on the utilisation of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers for treating hypertension in the UK primary care setting: longitudinal quasi-experimental design

Table 2 Number of patients, antihypertensive prescriptions and baseline ACEIs prescription proportion in the 13 UK regions

Regions	Baseline ACEIs prescription proportion (%)	ACEIs prescription proportion (%) at the end of the study	Total number of prescriptions	Total number of patients
High baseline ACEIs prescription proportion (>74 %)
North East	80.8	74.2	1,143,760	13,319
South East	74.7	71.6	3,865,373	53,299
Wales	74.4	74.1	6,185,924	63,467
East Midlands	74.3	75.8	1,364,324	22,370
Intermediate baselineACEIs prescription proportion (65 %-74 %)
Yorkshire and the Humber	73.5	73.6	1,554,143	20,968
East of England	72.5	72.1	3,505,910	52,733
South Central	71.7	70.9	5,030,800	69,175
Scotland	72.2	70.8	3,760,187	62,610
West Midlands	69.5	68.5	3,764,019	52,920
North West	69.2	70.8	6,279,440	80,575
London	69.1	70.9	3,401,591	57,108
Low baseline ACEIs prescription proportion (<65 %)
South East Coast	63.6	63.8	3,698,109	52,221
Northern Ireland	60.3	65.5	801,164	15,256

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