NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board
Mid and South Essex was an integrated care board in England in March 2026, with 2,021,590 items dispensed, up 4.4% on a year earlier.
Dispensed in March 2026
NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis
Net ingredient cost, March 2026
NHSBSA PCA
Figure 1. Mid and South Essex: national prescribing items by month
Source: NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis, to March 2026
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Most-prescribed medicines in Mid and South Essex, March 2026
By items dispensed in this ICB.
| Medicine | Items | Net ingredient cost |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin | 127,474 | £127,600 |
| Amlodipine | 72,418 | £65,361 |
| Lansoprazole | 66,627 | £80,390 |
| Levothyroxine sodium | 60,067 | £75,112 |
| Ramipril | 57,599 | £71,136 |
| Bisoprolol fumarate | 48,349 | £64,476 |
| Omeprazole | 44,328 | £191,159 |
| Metformin hydrochloride | 40,621 | £102,017 |
| Sertraline hydrochloride | 39,896 | £91,017 |
| Colecalciferol | 35,214 | £179,937 |
| Co-codamol (Codeine phosphate/paracetamol) | 30,603 | £173,939 |
| Amitriptyline hydrochloride | 30,205 | £33,054 |
| Aspirin | 30,168 | £93,366 |
| Citalopram hydrobromide | 25,811 | £20,730 |
| Salbutamol | 24,506 | £71,257 |
Dispensing practices
GP practices that dispense in Mid and South Essex (27 total).
- Ashingdon Medical Centre
- Baddow Village Surgery
- Beacon Health Group-Danbury Medical Ctr
- Blackwater Medical Centre
- Blandford Medical Centre
- Burnham Surgery
- Deal Tree Health Centre
- Fern House Surgery
- Greenwood And Wyncroft Surgery
- Hedingham Medical Centre
- Horndon-On-The-Hill Surgery
- Little Waltham & Gt Notley Surgery
- Longfield Medical Centre
- Mount Chambers Medical Practice
- Orsett Surgery
- Peartree Surgery & West Horndon Surgery
- Stock Surgery
- The Coggeshall Surgery
- The Dengie Medical Partnership
- The Freshford Practice
- The Laurels Surgery
- The Pump House Surgery
- The Tollesbury Practice
- The Trinity Medical Practice
- The Writtle Surgery
Download this data
Mid and South Essex'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.