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Vitamins caps

Nutrition and Blood Vitamins BNF 0906070T0
Data updated May 2026 Download CSV

Vitamins caps was ranked 430th of 1,796 medicines by items in May 2026, with 15,870 items, down 11.3% on a year earlier.

15,870items -11.3%

Dispensed in May 2026

167,627items

Rolling 12 months

£6,550

Net ingredient cost · May 2026

Figure 1. Vitamins caps: 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 Vitamins
  • Presentations 4 shown
  • Average cost / item £0.41
  • Year on year Down 11.3% 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 Vitamins caps this month.

Presentations of Vitamins caps, May 2026
Presentation BNF code Items Net ingredient cost
Vitamins capsules 0906070T0AAAAAA 15,851 £6,546
Aa BPC Vitamin capsules 0906070T0BDAAAA 13 £3
AVITA BPC Vitamin capsules 0906070T0BEAAAA 5 £1
HealthAid Multivitamin capsules 0906070T0BCAAAA 1 £0

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

Where Vitamins caps is dispensed

The regions and dispensing practices with the highest Vitamins caps volumes.

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

Compare Vitamins caps with

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

Download this data

The monthly series for Vitamins caps 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.