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Quetiapine

Central Nervous System Drugs used in psychoses and related disorders BNF 0402010AB
Data updated May 2026 Download CSV

Quetiapine was ranked 63rd of 1,796 medicines by items in May 2026, with 383,782 items, down 2.8% on a year earlier.

383,782items -2.8%

Dispensed in May 2026

3,900,942items

Rolling 12 months

£4,101,012

Net ingredient cost · May 2026

Figure 1. Quetiapine: national items dispensed by month

0 207k 413k Jan 2021 Nov 2021 Sep 2022 Jul 2023 May 2024 Mar 2025 Jul 2026 217,618 Jan 2021: 339k Feb 2021: 324k Mar 2021: 363k Apr 2021: 351k May 2021: 335k Jun 2021: 356k Jul 2021: 358k Aug 2021: 343k Sep 2021: 356k Oct 2021: 343k Nov 2021: 356k Dec 2021: 374k Jan 2022: 355k Feb 2022: 333k Mar 2022: 374k Apr 2022: 352k May 2022: 365k Jun 2022: 357k Jul 2022: 354k Aug 2022: 367k Sep 2022: 362k Oct 2022: 360k Nov 2022: 368k Dec 2022: 369k Jan 2023: 369k Feb 2023: 340k Mar 2023: 387k Apr 2023: 348k May 2023: 373k Jun 2023: 379k Jul 2023: 368k Aug 2023: 379k Sep 2023: 369k Oct 2023: 377k Nov 2023: 379k Dec 2023: 377k Jan 2024: 388k Feb 2024: 366k Mar 2024: 371k Apr 2024: 381k May 2024: 386k Jun 2024: 365k Jul 2024: 407k Aug 2024: 387k Sep 2024: 377k Oct 2024: 395k Nov 2024: 378k Dec 2024: 390k Jan 2025: 398k Feb 2025: 355k Mar 2025: 380k Apr 2025: 383k May 2025: 395k Jun 2025: 384k Jul 2025: 407k Aug 2025: 377k Sep 2025: 393k Oct 2025: 404k Nov 2025: 373k Dec 2025: 413k Jan 2026: 396k Feb 2026: 366k Mar 2026: 401k Apr 2026: 393k May 2026: 384k Jun 2026: 401k Jul 2026: 218k

Source: NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis, to May 2026

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At a glance

  • Therapeutic class Drugs used in psychoses and related disorders
  • Presentations 15 shown
  • Average cost / item £10.69
  • Year on year Down 2.8% 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 Quetiapine this month.

Presentations of Quetiapine, May 2026
Presentation BNF code Items Net ingredient cost
Quetiapine 25mg tablets 0402010ABAAABAB 126,708 £107,068
Quetiapine 100mg tablets 0402010ABAAACAC 66,255 £84,396
Quetiapine 200mg tablets 0402010ABAAADAD 35,533 £55,243
Quetiapine 300mg tablets 0402010ABAAAKAK 27,422 £38,771
Quetiapine 150mg tablets 0402010ABAAAFAF 24,293 £34,199
Quetiapine 50mg tablets 0402010ABAABHBH 21,102 £132,952
Quetiapine 50mg modified-release tablets 0402010ABAAAVAV 16,366 £640,196
Quetiapine 300mg modified-release tablets 0402010ABAAAXAX 12,515 £830,735
Quetiapine 200mg modified-release tablets 0402010ABAAAWAW 10,049 £475,001
Quetiapine 400mg modified-release tablets 0402010ABAAAYAY 6,720 £542,085
Quetiapine 150mg modified-release tablets 0402010ABAABABA 5,131 £252,615
Sondate XL 50mg tablets 0402010ABBCAAAV 4,258 £29,019
Sondate XL 300mg tablets 0402010ABBCACAX 3,763 £64,813
Sondate XL 200mg tablets 0402010ABBCABAW 2,860 £31,884
Zaluron XL 50mg tablets 0402010ABBHAAAV 2,776 £49,594

Source: NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis · to May 2026 OGL v3.0

Where Quetiapine is dispensed

The regions and dispensing practices with the highest Quetiapine volumes.

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

Compare Quetiapine with

Other medicines in the same BNF section, by prescribing volume.

Download this data

The monthly series for Quetiapine 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.