NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent was ranked 17th of 36 integrated care boards in England by prescribing volume in May 2026, with 2,356,476 items dispensed, down 4.1% on a year earlier.
Dispensed in May 2026
NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis
Net ingredient cost, May 2026
NHSBSA PCA
Figure 1. Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent: national prescribing items by month
Source: NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis, to May 2026
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Most-prescribed medicines in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent, May 2026
By items dispensed in this ICB.
| Medicine | Items | Net ingredient cost |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin | 139,850 | £134,384 |
| Ramipril | 80,567 | £165,387 |
| Amlodipine | 73,488 | £68,647 |
| Omeprazole | 70,646 | £209,896 |
| Lansoprazole | 62,543 | £82,114 |
| Levothyroxine sodium | 57,164 | £69,651 |
| Bisoprolol fumarate | 55,523 | £159,584 |
| Sertraline hydrochloride | 50,243 | £110,981 |
| Colecalciferol | 49,761 | £239,770 |
| Metformin hydrochloride | 48,140 | £118,160 |
| Co-codamol (Codeine phosphate/paracetamol) | 35,377 | £243,733 |
| Aspirin | 33,232 | £98,744 |
| Paracetamol | 30,023 | £136,959 |
| Amitriptyline hydrochloride | 29,849 | £33,319 |
| Salbutamol | 28,906 | £116,168 |
Compare Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent with
Similarly-sized integrated care boards, by prescribing volume.
Dispensing practices
GP practices that dispense in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent (28 total).
- Abbots Bromley Surgery
- Allen Street Clinic
- Alton Surgery
- Ashley Surgery
- Balance Street
- Betley Surgery
- Brewood Medical Practice
- Claverley
- Crown Surgery
- Dove River
- Gnosall
- Hazeldene House Surgery
- Horsefair Practice
- Keele Practice
- Laurel House Surgery
- Madeley Practice
- Mill View Surgery
- Northgate Surgery
- Stapenhill Medical Centre
- Tardis Surgery
- Tean Surgery
- The Langton Medical Group
- Trent Meadows
- Trinity Medical Centre
- Waterhouses Medical Pract
Download this data
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent'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.