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NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board

QWU · 23 dispensing practices
Data updated May 2026

Coventry and Warwickshire was ranked 26th of 36 integrated care boards in England by prescribing volume in May 2026, with 1,902,667 items dispensed, up 0.7% on a year earlier.

1,902,667items

Dispensed in May 2026

NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis

£15,939,579

Net ingredient cost, May 2026

NHSBSA PCA

Figure 1. Coventry and Warwickshire: national prescribing items by month

0 1.5m 3m May 2022 Jan 2023 Sep 2023 May 2024 Jan 2025 Sep 2025 Jul 2026 avg ICB 2,285,029 May 2022: 1.6m Jun 2022: 1.6m Jul 2022: 1.6m Aug 2022: 1.6m Sep 2022: 1.6m Oct 2022: 1.7m Nov 2022: 1.7m Dec 2022: 1.7m Jan 2023: 1.7m Feb 2023: 1.6m Mar 2023: 1.8m Apr 2023: 1.5m May 2023: 1.7m Jun 2023: 1.7m Jul 2023: 1.7m Aug 2023: 1.7m Sep 2023: 1.7m Oct 2023: 1.8m Nov 2023: 1.8m Dec 2023: 1.7m Jan 2024: 1.8m Feb 2024: 1.7m Mar 2024: 1.7m Apr 2024: 1.8m May 2024: 1.8m Jun 2024: 1.7m Jul 2024: 1.9m Aug 2024: 1.8m Sep 2024: 1.7m Oct 2024: 2m Nov 2024: 1.8m Dec 2024: 1.9m Jan 2025: 1.9m Feb 2025: 1.7m Mar 2025: 1.8m Apr 2025: 1.9m May 2025: 1.9m Jun 2025: 1.8m Jul 2025: 2m Aug 2025: 1.8m Sep 2025: 1.9m Oct 2025: 2.1m Nov 2025: 1.9m Dec 2025: 2m Jan 2026: 1.9m Feb 2026: 1.8m Mar 2026: 2m Apr 2026: 1.9m May 2026: 1.9m Jun 2026: 2m Jul 2026: 2.3m

Source: NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis, to May 2026

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Most-prescribed medicines in Coventry and Warwickshire, May 2026

By items dispensed in this ICB.

Top medicines in Coventry and Warwickshire, May 2026
Medicine Items Net ingredient cost
Atorvastatin 115,078 £97,142
Amlodipine 64,801 £50,093
Omeprazole 63,009 £144,045
Levothyroxine sodium 55,169 £62,576
Ramipril 51,670 £88,576
Bisoprolol fumarate 41,970 £104,786
Colecalciferol 40,267 £169,193
Metformin hydrochloride 39,748 £81,185
Lansoprazole 39,372 £48,881
Sertraline hydrochloride 38,807 £80,881
Losartan potassium 29,313 £23,308
Aspirin 26,498 £73,333
Paracetamol 25,660 £151,001
Co-codamol (Codeine phosphate/paracetamol) 24,948 £130,988
Amitriptyline hydrochloride 23,462 £22,886

Compare Coventry and Warwickshire with

Similarly-sized integrated care boards, by prescribing volume.

Dispensing practices

GP practices that dispense in Coventry and Warwickshire (23 total).

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Coventry and Warwickshire's monthly series is in this page's CSV. Every ICB's items, cost and share of national prescribing, with the method and caveats documented, is in the ICB prescribing summary dataset — one of ten in our open data catalogue.