NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board

QMM · 62 dispensing practices

Data updated March 2026

Norfolk and Waveney was ranked 21st of 42 integrated care boards in England by prescribing volume in March 2026, with 2,260,587 items dispensed, up 4.9% on a year earlier.

2,260,587items

Dispensed in March 2026

NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis

£17,128,344

Net ingredient cost, March 2026

NHSBSA PCA

Figure 1. Norfolk and Waveney: national prescribing items by month

Source: NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis, to March 2026

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Most-prescribed medicines in Norfolk and Waveney, March 2026

By items dispensed in this ICB.

Top medicines in Norfolk and Waveney, March 2026
Medicine	Items	Net ingredient cost
Atorvastatin	139,404	£109,392
Lansoprazole	86,793	£88,485
Levothyroxine sodium	64,186	£65,941
Amlodipine	61,958	£48,656
Bisoprolol fumarate	53,447	£57,709
Ramipril	52,199	£54,132
Omeprazole	44,593	£120,640
Metformin hydrochloride	42,576	£88,276
Sertraline hydrochloride	41,912	£58,631
Colecalciferol	37,957	£164,480
Aspirin	35,331	£98,481
Amitriptyline hydrochloride	31,547	£33,580
Citalopram hydrobromide	29,099	£21,851
Candesartan cilexetil	27,813	£44,824
Co-codamol (Codeine phosphate/paracetamol)	27,800	£164,949

Compare Norfolk and Waveney with

Similarly-sized integrated care boards, by prescribing volume.

Dispensing practices

GP practices that dispense in Norfolk and Waveney (62 total).

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