NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board

QKS · 50 dispensing practices

Data updated March 2026

Kent and Medway was the 10th largest of England's 42 integrated care boards by prescribing volume in March 2026, with 3,042,507 items dispensed, up 4.7% on a year earlier.

3,042,507items

Dispensed in March 2026

NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis

£33,330,821

Net ingredient cost, March 2026

NHSBSA PCA

Figure 1. Kent and Medway: national prescribing items by month

Source: NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis, to March 2026

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Most-prescribed medicines in Kent and Medway, March 2026

By items dispensed in this ICB.

Top medicines in Kent and Medway, March 2026
Medicine	Items	Net ingredient cost
Atorvastatin	176,202	£162,483
Amlodipine	96,877	£86,540
Omeprazole	94,669	£313,435
Levothyroxine sodium	86,946	£98,057
Bisoprolol fumarate	72,289	£97,699
Lansoprazole	71,082	£85,268
Ramipril	69,791	£84,526
Metformin hydrochloride	60,465	£147,584
Colecalciferol	59,917	£297,350
Sertraline hydrochloride	57,691	£108,791
Aspirin	45,369	£138,366
Co-codamol (Codeine phosphate/paracetamol)	42,897	£236,172
Salbutamol	38,812	£105,229
Losartan potassium	37,985	£36,836
Amitriptyline hydrochloride	36,371	£42,538

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).

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