NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
Lancashire and South Cumbria was the 8th largest of England's 36 integrated care boards by prescribing volume in May 2026, with 3,614,075 items dispensed, down 3.9% on a year earlier.
Dispensed in May 2026
NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis
Net ingredient cost, May 2026
NHSBSA PCA
Figure 1. Lancashire and South Cumbria: national prescribing items by month
Source: NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis, to May 2026
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Most-prescribed medicines in Lancashire and South Cumbria, May 2026
By items dispensed in this ICB.
| Medicine | Items | Net ingredient cost |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin | 217,061 | £175,404 |
| Ramipril | 120,286 | £217,698 |
| Amlodipine | 117,402 | £87,060 |
| Omeprazole | 113,000 | £265,947 |
| Lansoprazole | 103,979 | £128,492 |
| Bisoprolol fumarate | 96,161 | £242,998 |
| Levothyroxine sodium | 93,458 | £97,678 |
| Sertraline hydrochloride | 75,171 | £128,933 |
| Metformin hydrochloride | 72,927 | £151,844 |
| Colecalciferol | 63,879 | £278,619 |
| Aspirin | 60,914 | £161,109 |
| Co-codamol (Codeine phosphate/paracetamol) | 50,130 | £299,586 |
| Amitriptyline hydrochloride | 49,896 | £52,241 |
| Mirtazapine | 44,106 | £45,434 |
| Paracetamol | 43,549 | £174,868 |
Compare Lancashire and South Cumbria with
Similarly-sized integrated care boards, by prescribing volume.
Dispensing practices
GP practices that dispense in Lancashire and South Cumbria (20 total).
- Ash Trees Surgery
- Bentham Medical Practice
- Cartmel Surgery
- Duddon Valley Medical Practice
- Garstang Medical Practice
- Harambee Surgery
- Haverthwaite Surgery
- Lancaster Medical Practice
- Lunesdale Surgery
- Pendleside Medical Pract
- Riverside Medical Centre
- Sedbergh Medical Practice
- Slaidburn Health Centre
- St.mary's Surgery
- Station House Surgery
- The Castle Medical Group
- The James Cochrane Pract.
- The Over-Wyre Med.ctr.
- Whalley Medical Centre
- Wraysdale House Surgery
Download this data
Lancashire and South Cumbria'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.