NHS Somerset Integrated Care Board
Somerset was ranked 35th of 36 integrated care boards in England by prescribing volume in May 2026, with 975,549 items dispensed, up 0.8% on a year earlier.
Dispensed in May 2026
NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis
Net ingredient cost, May 2026
NHSBSA PCA
Figure 1. Somerset: national prescribing items by month
Source: NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis, to May 2026
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Most-prescribed medicines in Somerset, May 2026
By items dispensed in this ICB.
| Medicine | Items | Net ingredient cost |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin | 52,561 | £53,239 |
| Omeprazole | 37,472 | £68,228 |
| Ramipril | 31,869 | £68,060 |
| Amlodipine | 28,793 | £24,644 |
| Levothyroxine sodium | 24,506 | £34,322 |
| Bisoprolol fumarate | 23,792 | £77,137 |
| Night Drainage Bags | 18,460 | £280,258 |
| Lansoprazole | 17,113 | £25,618 |
| Catheters | 16,577 | £641,965 |
| Tubing And Accessories | 15,188 | £231,289 |
| Sertraline hydrochloride | 14,770 | £33,913 |
| Colecalciferol | 14,701 | £78,635 |
| Metformin hydrochloride | 14,514 | £36,231 |
| Aspirin | 14,291 | £51,103 |
| Paracetamol | 14,252 | £69,224 |
Compare Somerset with
Similarly-sized integrated care boards, by prescribing volume.
Dispensing practices
GP practices that dispense in Somerset (20 total).
- Beckington Family Practice
- Brent Area Medical Centre
- Cannington Health Centre
- Church View Medical Centre
- Dunster & Porlock Surgeries
- Exmoor Medical Centre
- Langport Surgery
- Lister House Partnership
- Mendip Country Practice
- Milborne Port Surgery
- North Curry
- North Petherton Surgery
- Oakhill Surgery
- Polden Medical Practice
- Quantock Medical Centre
- Quantock Vale Surgery
- Queen Camel Medical Centre
- Summervale Surgery
- The Meadows Surgery
- West Coker Surgery
Download this data
Somerset'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.