Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
RWP00 · hospital prescribing dispensed in the community (FP10HP)
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust was ranked 48th of 193 trusts by hospital prescribing volume in March 2026, with 3,710 items dispensed, little changed on a year earlier.
3,710items
Dispensed in March 2026
NHSBSA Hospital prescribing in the community
£85,627
Actual cost, March 2026
NHSBSA
Figure 1. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals 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 | 120 | £242 |
| Omeprazole 20mg gastro-resistant capsules | 72 | £73 |
| Tolak 40mg/g cream | 64 | £1,836 |
| Co-amoxiclav 500mg/125mg tablets | 57 | £85 |
| Codeine 30mg tablets | 54 | £76 |
| Flucloxacillin 500mg capsules | 49 | £142 |
| Folic acid 5mg tablets | 44 | £23 |
| Doxycycline 100mg capsules | 40 | £71 |
| Fluticasone 400microgram/unit dose nasal drops | 39 | £3,409 |
| Morphine sulfate 10mg/5ml oral solution | 36 | £75 |
| Methotrexate 2.5mg tablets | 36 | £81 |
| Co-trimoxazole 160mg/800mg tablets | 35 | £56 |
| Oramorph 10mg/5ml oral solution | 34 | £89 |
| Aspirin 75mg tablets | 33 | £114 |
| Naseptin nasal cream | 31 | £61 |