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NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board

QNC · 28 dispensing practices
Data updated March 2026

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent was ranked 15th of 42 integrated care boards in England by prescribing volume in March 2026, with 2,466,784 items dispensed, up 5.0% on a year earlier.

2,466,784items

Dispensed in March 2026

NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis

£21,286,778

Net ingredient cost, March 2026

NHSBSA PCA

Figure 1. Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent: national prescribing items by month

avg ICB 2,466,784

Source: NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis, to March 2026

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Most-prescribed medicines in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent, March 2026

By items dispensed in this ICB.

Top medicines in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent, March 2026
Medicine Items Net ingredient cost
Atorvastatin 145,770 £142,596
Ramipril 83,787 £106,604
Amlodipine 76,593 £72,980
Omeprazole 73,967 £222,147
Lansoprazole 65,389 £77,764
Levothyroxine sodium 59,950 £70,567
Bisoprolol fumarate 57,472 £72,917
Sertraline hydrochloride 52,400 £94,740
Colecalciferol 51,601 £249,281
Metformin hydrochloride 49,737 £124,601
Co-codamol (Codeine phosphate/paracetamol) 36,807 £247,097
Aspirin 34,705 £103,567
Salbutamol 31,243 £128,113
Amitriptyline hydrochloride 31,194 £35,500
Paracetamol 31,179 £137,898

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).

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