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Dispensing Practices — items dispensed
Geography: England EnglandJun 2026 · ~3-month lag
Dispensing practices only — a subset of GP practices. This counts prescription items dispensed in English community pharmacies, attributed back to the originating GP practice, so a practice only appears when its prescriptions were dispensed in England. 9,613 dispensing practice(s) match this scope. Items are a SUBSET of all prescribing; for total prescribing volume see the Prescribing (NHSBSA EPD) explorer.
Items / 1,000 / mthEngland
1,731dispensed in communityEPS % of items
92.6%electronic routingItems dispensed
109,238,674▲ 4.9% vs prior monthDispensing practices
9,613subset of all practicesEPS adoption (% of dispensed items)
Σ EPS items ÷ Σ items dispensed · last 5 month(s) · England
Top geographies — ICBs across England
Ranked by items dispensed per 1,000 registered patients · Jun 2026
England average: 1,731
Where this geography sits
This geography is at the 39th percentile of 36 peers on items / 1,000.
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All icbs — ICBs across England
Latest-month metrics · Jun 2026 · sortable · dispensing practices only
| NHS LINCOLNSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 2,612 | 73.5% | 2,142,667 | 134 |
| NHS NORTH EAST AND NORTH CUMBRIA INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 2,439 | 95.7% | 8,187,143 | 515 |
| NHS SOUTH YORKSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 2,236 | 97.1% | 3,382,530 | 263 |
| NHS CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 2,181 | 73.1% | 1,315,839 | 124 |
| NHS HUMBER AND NORTH YORKSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 2,172 | 84.9% | 3,915,370 | 258 |
| NHS NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 2,151 | 77.8% | 3,847,515 | 206 |
| NHS CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 2,018 | 97.1% | 5,633,170 | 550 |
| NHS LANCASHIRE AND SOUTH CUMBRIA INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,994 | 94.9% | 3,425,867 | 260 |
| NHS STAFFORDSHIRE AND STOKE-ON-TRENT INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,954 | 93% | 2,346,538 | 206 |
| NHS DEVON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,907 | 87.2% | 2,456,521 | 173 |
| NHS WEST YORKSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,891 | 97.6% | 5,043,645 | 399 |
| NHS GLOUCESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,836 | 88.2% | 1,279,666 | 124 |
| NHS NORTHAMPTONSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,835 | 93.5% | 1,552,202 | 82 |
| NHS GREATER MANCHESTER INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,832 | 97.6% | 6,051,294 | 602 |
| NHS NOTTINGHAM AND NOTTINGHAMSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,812 | 94.6% | 2,287,895 | 168 |
| NHS LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,802 | 92.1% | 2,200,008 | 195 |
| NHS DORSET INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,797 | 91.5% | 1,477,928 | 76 |
| NHS HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,775 | 79.8% | 1,474,853 | 145 |
| NHS BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET, SWINDON AND WILTSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,753 | 89.2% | 1,764,672 | 128 |
| NHS DERBY AND DERBYSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,747 | 92.9% | 1,946,615 | 143 |
| NHS BLACK COUNTRY INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,742 | 97.3% | 2,457,068 | 263 |
| NHS ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,740 | 91.5% | 3,493,952 | 322 |
| NHS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,727 | 89% | 1,909,644 | 191 |
| NHS SHROPSHIRE, TELFORD AND WREKIN INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,719 | 81.5% | 918,940 | 70 |
| NHS SOMERSET INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,683 | 85.4% | 1,015,097 | 66 |
| NHS KENT AND MEDWAY INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,616 | 89.3% | 3,285,265 | 280 |
| NHS HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,537 | 94.9% | 3,754,262 | 248 |
| NHS SURREY AND SUSSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,534 | 94.4% | 4,640,850 | 397 |
| NHS CENTRAL EAST INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,520 | 91.6% | 5,327,182 | 393 |
| NHS BIRMINGHAM AND SOLIHULL INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,498 | 97.3% | 2,300,115 | 233 |
| NHS NORTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,416 | 98.4% | 3,438,975 | 344 |
| NHS THAMES VALLEY INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,347 | 88.9% | 3,075,273 | 235 |
| NHS BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,292 | 96.2% | 1,401,772 | 114 |
| NHS SOUTH WEST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,290 | 98.3% | 2,241,676 | 233 |
| NHS WEST AND NORTH LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,236 | 98.7% | 5,744,947 | 648 |
| NHS SOUTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | 1,163 | 98.2% | 2,416,958 | 272 |
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About this data
Provenance & method
- Status
- Official statistics
- Latest period
- Jun 2026
- History depth
- Feb 2026 → Jun 2026
- Scale
- 47,896 rows
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- How this is produced
- Discovered + downloaded from the NHSBSA Open Data Portal (CKAN) package "Dispensing Practices dispensing data". The portal's datastore query layer is unavailable for this package, so the gated loader STREAMS the ~140 MB month CSV (served from Cloudflare R2) and folds it to one practice-grain row. The source rows are at (month × originating practice × dispensing contractor) grain; items + EPS items are SUMMED over contractors to one row per originating practice, then rolled up the ODS tree (practice → PCN → ICB → region → national) by summation. The items-per-1,000 figure is Σ items ÷ Σ registered patients. The dataset tracks dispensing within community contractors IN ENGLAND attributed to the originating practice, so coverage is a SUBSET of GP practices — those whose prescriptions were dispensed in England; cross-border / placeholder source practices that do not join the English GP ODS spine are dropped. Published monthly, ~3 months in arrears.