NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board
Kent and Medway was ranked 16th of 36 integrated care boards in England by prescribing volume in May 2026, with 2,888,148 items dispensed, down 3.2% on a year earlier.
Dispensed in May 2026
NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis
Net ingredient cost, May 2026
NHSBSA PCA
Figure 1. Kent and Medway: national prescribing items by month
Source: NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis, to May 2026
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Most-prescribed medicines in Kent and Medway, May 2026
By items dispensed in this ICB.
| Medicine | Items | Net ingredient cost |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin | 169,244 | £159,358 |
| Amlodipine | 92,634 | £80,180 |
| Omeprazole | 89,805 | £302,398 |
| Levothyroxine sodium | 83,074 | £96,260 |
| Bisoprolol fumarate | 69,794 | £214,603 |
| Lansoprazole | 68,017 | £89,643 |
| Ramipril | 67,705 | £152,120 |
| Metformin hydrochloride | 58,631 | £140,217 |
| Colecalciferol | 57,658 | £287,677 |
| Sertraline hydrochloride | 55,464 | £111,450 |
| Aspirin | 43,606 | £133,347 |
| Co-codamol (Codeine phosphate/paracetamol) | 41,487 | £234,537 |
| Losartan potassium | 36,821 | £35,545 |
| Salbutamol | 34,768 | £96,294 |
| Amitriptyline hydrochloride | 34,410 | £39,706 |
Compare Kent and Medway with
Similarly-sized integrated care boards, by prescribing volume.
Dispensing practices
GP practices that dispense in Kent and Medway (50 total).
- Amherst Medical Practice
- Bearsted
- Borough Green Medical Practice
- Buckland Medical Practice
- Canterbury Medical Practice
- Charing Surgery
- Church Road
- Devon Road Surgery
- Downs Way Medical Practice
- Edenbridge Med Practice
- Hadlow Medical Centre
- Hamstreet Surgery
- Headcorn Surgery
- High Street Surgery
- Highparks Medical Practice
- Hildenborough Medical Group
- Howell Surgery
- Ivy Court Surgery
- Lamberhurst
- Langley
- Len Valley Practice
- Lydden Surgery
- Maidstone Rd Rainham Surgery
- Marden Medical Centre
- Meopham Medical Centre
Download this data
Kent and Medway'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.