Sodium lactate compound (Hartmann's Solution) infusion 1litre bags
NHS hospitals in England used £15,284,795 of indicative cost of Sodium lactate compound (Hartmann's Solution) infusion 1litre bags in the 12 months to April 2026, about 0.1% of all hospital medicines spend. That is up 13.6% on the previous 12 months.
Indicative cost · 12 months
Quantity (VMP units) · 12 months
Share of hospital medicines spend
Figure 1. Sodium lactate compound (Hartmann's Solution) infusion 1litre bags: NHS hospital indicative cost by month (£ millions)
Source: NHSBSA Secondary Care Medicines Data, to April 2026
Cost is indicative — actual hospital medicine prices are commercially confidential, so these figures are estimated from list prices. See methodology.
NHS trusts using Sodium lactate compound (Hartmann's Solution) infusion 1litre bags most
By indicative cost over the 12 months to April 2026.
| NHS trust | Indicative cost (12 months) |
|---|---|
| Univ Hpl B/Ham Nhs Foundation Trust | £476,523 |
| Royal Free London Nhs Foundation Trust | £374,170 |
| King's College Hpl Nhs Foundation Trust | £356,403 |
| Manchester University Nhs Ft | £350,090 |
| Oxford University Hospitals Nhs Ft | £344,377 |
| Salford Royal Nhs Foundation Trust | £343,781 |
| Cambridge Univ Hosp Nhs Foundation Trust | £335,914 |
| Western Sussex Hospitals Nhs Found Trust | £333,873 |
| Guy's & St Thomas' Nhs Foundation Trust | £328,363 |
| Southend Univ Hosp Nhs Foundation Trust | £310,110 |
The primary-care picture
No confident match to a community-dispensed medicine was found for this product, so no primary-care comparison is shown. SCMD products are recorded at product level, which does not always map cleanly to a BNF substance.