Medicines
Nutrition and Blood
Fluids and electrolytes
Sodium lactate

Sodium lactate

Nutrition and Blood Fluids and electrolytes BNF 0902021V0

Data updated January 2025 Download CSV

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Dispensed in January 2025

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Rolling 12 months

£106

Net ingredient cost · January 2025

Figure 1. Sodium lactate: national items dispensed by month

Source: NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis, to January 2025

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At a glance

Therapeutic class Fluids and electrolytes
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Average cost / item £52.80

What this is

Net ingredient cost is the list price before discounts and dispensing fees, not what the NHS finally pays.

Where Sodium lactate is dispensed

The regions and dispensing practices with the highest Sodium lactate volumes.

Top regions

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

Compare Sodium lactate with

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

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Download this data

The monthly series for Sodium lactate 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.