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Dispensing Practices — items dispensed

Geography: NHS NORTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD This ICBFeb 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. 343 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 / mth●Your ICB
1,281vs 1,151 London
EPS % of items
97.6%vs 98% London
Items dispensed
3,144,013this month
Dispensing practices
343subset of all practices

EPS adoption (% of dispensed items)

Σ EPS items ÷ Σ items dispensed · last 1 month(s) · This ICB

Not enough data to draw a trend yet.

Top geographies — Boroughs in NHS NORTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

Ranked by items dispensed per 1,000 registered patients · Feb 2026

NHS NORTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD average: 1,281

Where this geography sits

median 1,329min 1,039max 1,4021,281

This geography is at the 43rd percentile of 7 peers on items / 1,000.

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All boroughs — Boroughs in NHS NORTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

Latest-month metrics · Feb 2026 · sortable · dispensing practices only

Newham1,40298.9%653,18843
Havering1,36495.5%406,29639
Tower Hamlets1,34399.2%520,33430
Barking and Dagenham1,32997.7%347,16532
Redbridge1,18398.2%427,89240
Waltham Forest1,14998%377,08439
Hackney1,03998.6%365,98337

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About this data

Provenance & method

Source
NHS Business Services Authority (Open Data Portal) ↗
Status
Official statistics
Latest period
Feb 2026
History depth
Feb 2026
Scale
9,585 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.
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