General Pharmaceutical Services in England 2008/09 - 2018/19 [NS] [PAS]
This is part of General Pharmaceutical Services
- Publication date:
- 7 Nov 2019
- 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
There were 11,539 community pharmacies in England in 2018/19
On average, the number of items dispensed by each community pharmacy in 2018/19 was 87,212
64.9% of prescription items dispensed by community pharmacies in 2018/19 were via the Electronic Prescription Service
1.4 million vaccines were provided in 2018/19 by 9,105 National Influenza Adult Vaccination Services (NIAVS) in community pharmacies