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Catheter Maintenance Products

Appliances Catheter Maintenance Products BNF 2113
Data updated May 2026 Download CSV

Catheter Maintenance Products was ranked 378th of 1,796 medicines by items in May 2026, with 22,575 items, up 10.1% on a year earlier.

22,575items +10.1%

Dispensed in May 2026

220,023items

Rolling 12 months

£860,720

Net ingredient cost · May 2026

Figure 1. Catheter Maintenance Products: national items dispensed by month

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Source: NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis, to May 2026

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At a glance

  • Therapeutic class Catheter Maintenance Products
  • Presentations 13 shown
  • Average cost / item £38.13
  • Year on year Up 10.1% on a year earlier
What this is
Net ingredient cost is the list price before discounts and dispensing fees, not what the NHS finally pays.

Top presentations, May 2026

The individual products dispensed under Catheter Maintenance Products this month.

Where Catheter Maintenance Products is dispensed

The regions and dispensing practices with the highest Catheter Maintenance Products volumes.

Regional volumes from NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis; practice volumes from NHS dispensing data.

Download this data

The monthly series for Catheter Maintenance Products is in this page's CSV. For the ranked national series across every medicine, with the method and caveats documented, see the most-prescribed medicines dataset in our open data catalogue.