East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
RXC00 · hospital prescribing dispensed in the community (FP10HP)
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust was ranked 41st of 193 trusts by hospital prescribing volume in March 2026, with 4,200 items dispensed, down 1.5% on a year earlier.
4,200items
Dispensed in March 2026
NHSBSA Hospital prescribing in the community
£73,259
Actual cost, March 2026
NHSBSA
Figure 1. East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust: hospital prescribing items by month
Source: NHSBSA Hospital prescribing dispensed in the community, to March 2026
Top medicines, March 2026
Most-dispensed medicines prescribed by this trust and dispensed in the community.
| Medicine | Items | Actual cost |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone 5mg tablets | 136 | £234 |
| Folic acid 5mg tablets | 108 | £62 |
| Methotrexate 2.5mg tablets | 84 | £270 |
| Diazepam 2mg tablets | 81 | £27 |
| Morphine sulfate 10mg/5ml oral solution | 78 | £205 |
| Co-amoxiclav 500mg/125mg tablets | 70 | £110 |
| Omeprazole 20mg gastro-resistant capsules | 60 | £48 |
| Co-codamol 30mg/500mg tablets | 54 | £266 |
| Doxycycline 100mg capsules | 51 | £59 |
| Flucloxacillin 500mg capsules | 51 | £97 |
| Monopost 50micrograms/ml eye drops 0.2ml unit dose | 49 | £501 |
| Oramorph 10mg/5ml oral solution | 48 | £121 |
| Apixaban 5mg tablets | 45 | £82 |
| Prochlorperazine 5mg tablets | 43 | £26 |
| Amoxicillin 500mg capsules | 40 | £32 |