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General Pharmaceutical Services in England 2008/09 - 2018/19 [NS] [PAS]

Publication Date:
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Country, Regions
Date Range:
01 Apr 2008 to 31 Mar 2019

Summary

This report provides information on community pharmacies and appliance contractors in England, and the NHS services they provided, between April 2008 and March 2019. It is a National Statistics publication and is the only national level dataset that shows this information.

Key Facts

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Community pharmacies

There were 11,539 community pharmacies in England in 2018/19

This is an increase of 9.8% since 2008/09 and a decrease of 0.7% since 2017/18.

The number of appliance contractors has remained stable at 111 since 2016/2017.

During 2018/19, 38 community pharmacies opened and 103 pharmacies closed.

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Prescription items dispensed

On average, the number of items dispensed by each community pharmacy in 2018/19 was 87,212

This is an increase of 18.8% since 2008/09 and no change since 2017/18.

The number of items dispensed by each appliance contractor, on average, has increased by 114.8% since 2008/09.

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Electronic Prescription Service

64.9% of prescription items dispensed by community pharmacies in 2018/19 were via the Electronic Prescription Service

This is an increase of 50.1 percentage points since 2014/15.

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Flu vaccines

1.4 million vaccines were provided in 2018/19 by 9,105 National Influenza Adult Vaccination Services (NIAVS) in community pharmacies

This equates to 157 vaccines per pharmacy on average, which is an increase of 90.1% since 2015/16, when 7,195 pharmacies provided 595,467 vaccines through a NIAVS.

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Resources

Related news

NHS Digital article
Report published on extent of pharmacy services in England
7 November 2019
NHS Digital has today published figures on activity carried out by community pharmacies and appliance contractors in England.

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Last edited: 13 May 2020 8:08 am