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Consolidated Pharmaceutical List

This dataset consolidates the pharmaceutical lists which NHS England has a regulatory duty to prepare, maintain and publish for each Health and Wellbeing Board area. This consolidated list includes lists of:

  1. NHS pharmacies (also known as NHS community pharmacies) and;
  2. NHS appliance contractors (also known as NHS dispensing appliance contractors) and;
  3. Local Pharmaceutical Services contractors

Pharmaceutical lists for each Health and Wellbeing Board area are maintained by NHS England by pharmacy contract teams. Community pharmacies and dispensing appliance contractors can apply to or notify contract teams to amend the details held by the regional teams as specified in The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013 . Further details on the application processes can be found on the Primary Care Support England website.

NHSBSA collates information on changes from NHS pharmacy contract teams and PCSE in the consolidated pharmaceutical list on NHS England's behalf.

Typically, high volumes of changes take place each month; and so, the consolidated pharmaceutical list is produced and validated on a quarterly basis. This validation confirms the accuracy of the consolidated pharmaceutical list, by comparing it to the pharmaceutical lists maintained for each Health and Wellbeing Board area.

The consolidated pharmaceutical list here represents the data as recorded in the NHSBSA Master Data Replacement System (MDR) on the last day of each quarter. Where information contained in the published list is discovered to be incorrect after publication, backdated amendments are made and reflected in the next publication.

We publish the related dataset Pharmacy Openings and Closures on a monthly basis.

Overview of Service

Information about our NHSBSA Prescriptions Data service can be found here - Prescription data | NHSBSA

Dataset Details

Data Source

NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) Data Warehouse.

Data Collection

The dataset is provided from Prescription data collected by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) for the operational purpose of reimbursing and remunerating dispensing contractors for the costs of supplying drugs and devices, and providing essential and advanced services, to NHS patients. The data that forms the basis of these statistics is collected as a by-product of this process.

Time Periods

This data is produced and refreshed four times per year.

Each quarterly update is scheduled to be published in August, December, February and May.

Geography

This data is for England only.

Statistical Classification

Management Information – This is not an official statistic.

Caveats

Information: Quarterly MDR Data with Corrections

The data represents figures as recorded in the NHSBSA Master Data Replacement System (MDR) on the last day of each quarter.

Where information contained in the published list is discovered to be incorrect after publication, backdated amendments are made and reflected in the next publication.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Source NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) Master Data Replacement (MDR)
Contact NHS England Community Pharmacy Team
Version 1.0
State active
Last Updated August 11, 2025, 14:34 (UTC)
Created December 16, 2022, 10:52 (UTC)