NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board

QHG · 20 dispensing practices

Data updated March 2026

Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes was ranked 33rd of 42 integrated care boards in England by prescribing volume in March 2026, with 1,481,322 items dispensed, up 8.4% on a year earlier.

1,481,322items

Dispensed in March 2026

NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis

£13,022,560

Net ingredient cost, March 2026

NHSBSA PCA

Figure 1. Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes: national prescribing items by month

Source: NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis, to March 2026

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Most-prescribed medicines in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes, March 2026

By items dispensed in this ICB.

Top medicines in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes, March 2026
Medicine	Items	Net ingredient cost
Atorvastatin	87,707	£99,457
Amlodipine	45,288	£47,565
Omeprazole	40,316	£110,518
Levothyroxine sodium	39,816	£56,434
Ramipril	37,970	£51,689
Lansoprazole	37,487	£46,226
Bisoprolol fumarate	35,741	£54,468
Metformin hydrochloride	34,618	£91,172
Sertraline hydrochloride	28,393	£50,715
Colecalciferol	28,130	£138,732
Losartan potassium	26,240	£26,892
Aspirin	22,703	£73,773
Dapagliflozin	21,441	£178,921
Co-codamol (Codeine phosphate/paracetamol)	19,924	£105,419
Amitriptyline hydrochloride	18,908	£21,272

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Dispensing practices

GP practices that dispense in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (20 total).