NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
South Yorkshire was ranked 13th of 36 integrated care boards in England by prescribing volume in May 2026, with 3,090,733 items dispensed, down 4.4% on a year earlier.
Dispensed in May 2026
NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis
Net ingredient cost, May 2026
NHSBSA PCA
Figure 1. South Yorkshire: national prescribing items by month
Source: NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis, to May 2026
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Most-prescribed medicines in South Yorkshire, May 2026
By items dispensed in this ICB.
| Medicine | Items | Net ingredient cost |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin | 194,545 | £147,207 |
| Lansoprazole | 121,001 | £131,355 |
| Ramipril | 105,204 | £186,116 |
| Amlodipine | 98,580 | £65,969 |
| Levothyroxine sodium | 76,895 | £75,127 |
| Bisoprolol fumarate | 76,295 | £179,628 |
| Colecalciferol | 74,723 | £253,942 |
| Metformin hydrochloride | 65,979 | £129,573 |
| Sertraline hydrochloride | 65,129 | £106,645 |
| Omeprazole | 60,091 | £177,719 |
| Amitriptyline hydrochloride | 51,619 | £50,400 |
| Aspirin | 49,666 | £120,339 |
| Co-codamol (Codeine phosphate/paracetamol) | 41,905 | £239,523 |
| Paracetamol | 41,089 | £155,550 |
| Salbutamol | 38,242 | £102,586 |
Compare South Yorkshire with
Similarly-sized integrated care boards, by prescribing volume.
Dispensing practices
GP practices that dispense in South Yorkshire (12 total).
- Asa Medical Group
- Deepcar Medical Centre
- Dinnington Group Practice
- Far Lane Medical Centre
- Huddersfield Road Surgery
- Kingswell Surgery Pms Practice
- Kiveton Park Medical Practice
- Morthen Road Surgery
- Oughtibridge Surgery
- Penistone Group Pms Practice
- The Mayflower Medical Practice
- Thorpe Hesley Surgery
Download this data
South Yorkshire'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.