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Dispensing Practices — items dispensed
Geography: NHS NORTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD This ICBApr 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. 342 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 / mthYour ICB
1,364vs 1,235 LondonEPS % of items
98%vs 98.3% LondonItems dispensed
3,324,128▼ 0.9% vs prior monthDispensing practices
342subset of all practicesEPS adoption (% of dispensed items)
Σ EPS items ÷ Σ items dispensed · last 3 month(s) · This ICB
Top geographies — Boroughs in NHS NORTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD
Ranked by items dispensed per 1,000 registered patients · Apr 2026
NHS NORTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD average: 1,364
Where this geography sits
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 · Apr 2026 · sortable · dispensing practices only
| Newham | 1,481 | 98.7% | 683,975 | 43 |
| Tower Hamlets | 1,469 | 99.1% | 566,534 | 30 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 1,416 | 99.3% | 367,410 | 32 |
| Havering | 1,409 | 97.8% | 418,575 | 39 |
| Redbridge | 1,262 | 98.8% | 453,578 | 40 |
| Waltham Forest | 1,209 | 98.7% | 392,933 | 39 |
| Hackney | 1,125 | 96.6% | 391,925 | 37 |
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About this data
Provenance & method
- Status
- Official statistics
- Latest period
- Apr 2026
- History depth
- Feb 2026 → Apr 2026
- Scale
- 28,684 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.