Table 1. Mass of macrolides and fluoroquinolones prescribed in the study CCGs in 2015/16.
| Oxfordshire (kg) | Gloucestershire (kg) | Swindon (kg) |
Wiltshire (kg) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macrolides | Azithromycin | 21.8 | 18.9 | 4.5 | 12.6 |
| Clarithromycin | 179.5 | 322.7 | 66.7 | 198.0 | |
| Erythromycin | 97.3 | 80.7 | 50.6 | 82.3 | |
| Erythromycin ethyl succinate | 120.8 | 79.0 | 32.3 | 34.4 | |
| Erythromycin stearate |
12.4 | 5.4 | 4.3 | 5.0 | |
| Total of macrolides (kg) | 431.8 | 506.7 | 158.4 | 332.3 | |
| Fluoroquinolones | Ciprofloxacin | 93.8 | 94.6 | 29.5 | 72.2 |
| Levofloxacin | 0.3 | 4.6 | 0 | 0.3 | |
| Moxifloxacin | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
| Norfloxacin | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | |
| Ofloxacin | 2.2 | 4.1 | 0.7 | 1.0 | |
| Total of fluoroquinolones (kg) | 96.8 | 103.4 | 30.4 | 73.7 | |