NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board
Greater Manchester was the 3rd largest of England's 36 integrated care boards by prescribing volume in May 2026, with 5,770,688 items dispensed, down 3.1% on a year earlier.
Dispensed in May 2026
NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis
Net ingredient cost, May 2026
NHSBSA PCA
Figure 1. Greater Manchester: national prescribing items by month
Source: NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis, to May 2026
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Most-prescribed medicines in Greater Manchester, May 2026
By items dispensed in this ICB.
| Medicine | Items | Net ingredient cost |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin | 321,441 | £286,619 |
| Omeprazole | 184,405 | £443,114 |
| Amlodipine | 166,360 | £134,794 |
| Lansoprazole | 135,468 | £164,452 |
| Ramipril | 134,271 | £273,727 |
| Bisoprolol fumarate | 128,190 | £341,629 |
| Levothyroxine sodium | 125,856 | £156,752 |
| Sertraline hydrochloride | 123,182 | £226,211 |
| Metformin hydrochloride | 122,033 | £264,450 |
| Colecalciferol | 120,054 | £517,997 |
| Co-codamol (Codeine phosphate/paracetamol) | 87,390 | £473,669 |
| Aspirin | 86,530 | £226,675 |
| Salbutamol | 80,131 | £334,353 |
| Mirtazapine | 76,549 | £74,091 |
| Emollients | 72,353 | £499,620 |
Compare Greater Manchester with
Similarly-sized integrated care boards, by prescribing volume.
Dispensing practices
GP practices that dispense in Greater Manchester (1 total).
Download this data
Greater Manchester'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.