NHS regions: the 42 ICBs
The 42 Integrated Care Boards of England, with national prescribing items and net ingredient cost, May 2026. Coverage this month: 30 of 42 ICBs.
Items dispensed by ICB
National prescribing, May 2026 · top 15, ranked high to low
Source: NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis · to May 2026 OGL v3.0
Across the ICBs shown, May 2026
of 42 ICBs reporting this month
Figure 1. NHS prescription items by Integrated Care Board
Source: NHSBSA English Prescribing Dataset
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Every ICB's monthly items and cost are published as CSV in the ICB prescribing summary dataset.
All regions
| Integrated Care Board | Items (latest month) | Net ingredient cost | Dispensing practices |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Yorkshire | 8,157,030 | £69,428,332 | 13 |
| North East and North Cumbria | 7,391,496 | £53,350,593 | 48 |
| Greater Manchester | 5,770,688 | £53,236,524 | 1 |
| Cheshire and Merseyside | 5,297,207 | £49,686,148 | 14 |
| Lancashire and South Cumbria | 3,614,075 | £30,507,967 | 20 |
| Humber and North Yorkshire | 3,600,866 | £28,925,972 | 76 |
| North East London | 3,222,347 | £25,441,532 | 1 |
| South Yorkshire | 3,090,733 | £22,517,664 | 12 |
| Hampshire and Isle of Wight | 3,052,938 | £30,428,857 | 23 |
| Kent and Medway | 2,888,148 | £32,278,170 | 50 |
| Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent | 2,356,476 | £20,888,483 | 28 |
| South East London | 2,292,146 | £20,919,654 | 0 |
| Black Country | 2,254,895 | £22,105,804 | 1 |
| Nottingham and Nottinghamshire | 2,222,156 | £24,950,720 | 15 |
| Birmingham and Solihull | 2,191,259 | £22,354,964 | 0 |
| Devon | 2,160,635 | £18,397,776 | 31 |
| South West London | 2,158,835 | £17,526,062 | 0 |
| Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland | 2,150,976 | £18,858,543 | 19 |
| Lincolnshire | 1,977,266 | £14,573,654 | 56 |
| Coventry and Warwickshire | 1,902,667 | £15,939,579 | 23 |
| Derby and Derbyshire | 1,821,527 | £15,146,136 | 18 |
| Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire | 1,538,860 | £12,742,483 | 29 |
| Northamptonshire | 1,435,451 | £11,328,539 | 23 |
| Herefordshire and Worcestershire | 1,363,449 | £23,664,474 | 32 |
| Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire | 1,328,123 | £12,765,442 | 5 |
| Dorset | 1,304,154 | £11,318,867 | 18 |
| Gloucestershire | 1,187,878 | £10,992,613 | 29 |
| Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly | 1,121,163 | £9,237,360 | 36 |
| Somerset | 975,549 | £10,339,504 | 20 |
| Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin | 837,385 | £7,983,159 | 18 |
| Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes | — | — | 20 |
| Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West | — | — | 44 |
| Cambridgeshire and Peterborough | — | — | 41 |
| Frimley | — | — | 2 |
| Hertfordshire and West Essex | — | — | 21 |
| Mid and South Essex | — | — | 27 |
| Norfolk and Waveney | — | — | 62 |
| North Central London | — | — | 2 |
| North West London | — | — | 0 |
| Suffolk and North East Essex | — | — | 50 |
| Surrey Heartlands | — | — | 12 |
| Sussex | — | — | 29 |