NHS South East London Integrated Care Board
South East London was ranked 18th of 36 integrated care boards in England by prescribing volume in May 2026, with 2,292,146 items dispensed, little changed on a year earlier.
Dispensed in May 2026
NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis
Net ingredient cost, May 2026
NHSBSA PCA
Figure 1. South East London: national prescribing items by month
Source: NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis, to May 2026
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Most-prescribed medicines in South East London, May 2026
By items dispensed in this ICB.
| Medicine | Items | Net ingredient cost |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin | 141,428 | £137,137 |
| Amlodipine | 83,534 | £78,445 |
| Omeprazole | 67,805 | £190,724 |
| Colecalciferol | 63,536 | £298,005 |
| Metformin hydrochloride | 62,215 | £151,908 |
| Ramipril | 59,939 | £126,574 |
| Levothyroxine sodium | 57,252 | £74,289 |
| Bisoprolol fumarate | 55,463 | £143,529 |
| Lansoprazole | 49,568 | £58,963 |
| Sertraline hydrochloride | 41,941 | £89,856 |
| Aspirin | 36,616 | £100,679 |
| Dapagliflozin | 30,594 | £164,075 |
| Emollients | 25,222 | £166,784 |
| Losartan potassium | 24,832 | £24,500 |
| Salbutamol | 24,779 | £92,388 |
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Dispensing practices
GP practices that dispense in South East London (0 total).
No dispensing practices recorded in this ICB.
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South East London'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.