Data downloads

Open NHS prescribing data as CSV · NHSBSA · Open Government Licence v3.0

Every figure on PharmaInsight is free to download as a clean, spreadsheet-ready CSV. The data is published by the NHS Business Services Authority and reproduced here under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Please credit “NHSBSA, via PharmaInsight”.

Most-prescribed medicines

The 100 most-dispensed medicines in England over the latest 12 months, ranked by items.

Download the top 100 (CSV) · view the table

Monthly figures

Every medicine (BNF chemical substance) dispensed in a given month, with items and cost.

Download March 2026 (CSV) · browse all months

Pharmacy openings and closures

Monthly England community-pharmacy counts and the opened/closed/net churn.

Download the series (CSV) · view the tracker

Hospital medicines (SCMD)

The highest indicative-cost medicines used in NHS secondary care, latest 12 months.

Download the leaderboard (CSV) · view the table

Trends per medicine, ICB and trust

Each medicine, ICB and hospital-trust page carries a monthly time series with its own “Download CSV” link beside the chart — the national monthly history for that entity.

Browse medicines, regions (ICBs) or hospital trusts.

For how the figures are built and what each measure means, see our methodology and data sources.