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Dispensing Practices — items dispensed
Geography: Tower Hamlets This boroughApr 2026 · ~3-month lag
Dispensing practices only — a subset of GP practices. This counts prescription items dispensed in English community pharmacies, attributed back to the originating GP practice, so a practice only appears when its prescriptions were dispensed in England. 30 dispensing practice(s) match this scope. Items are a SUBSET of all prescribing; for total prescribing volume see the Prescribing (NHSBSA EPD) explorer.
Items / 1,000 / mthYour borough
1,462vs 1,355 NORTH EAST LONDONEPS % of items
99.1%vs 98% NORTH EAST LONDONItems dispensed
566,534▲ 2.8% vs prior monthDispensing practices
30subset of all practicesEPS adoption (% of dispensed items)
Σ EPS items ÷ Σ items dispensed · last 3 month(s) · This borough
Top geographies — PCNs in Tower Hamlets
Ranked by items dispensed per 1,000 registered patients · Apr 2026
Tower Hamlets average: 1,462
Where this geography sits
This geography is at the 43rd percentile of 7 peers on items / 1,000.
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All pcns — PCNs in Tower Hamlets
Latest-month metrics · Apr 2026 · sortable · dispensing practices only
| TOWER HAMLETS NETWORK 5 PCN | 1,849 | 99.5% | 63,299 | 5 |
| TOWER HAMLETS NETWORK 2 PCN | 1,784 | 99.5% | 66,142 | 4 |
| TOWER HAMLETS NETWORK 1 PCN | 1,521 | 98.5% | 74,185 | 4 |
| TOWER NETWORK PCN | 1,502 | 99.4% | 86,469 | 3 |
| BROMLEY BY BOW AND STEPNEY HEALTH CIC PCN | 1,428 | 99.9% | 88,134 | 3 |
| TOWER HAMLETS NETWORK 7 PCN | 1,402 | 97.6% | 73,158 | 4 |
| TOWER HAMLETS NETWORK 8 PCN | 959 | 99.2% | 63,797 | 4 |
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About this data
Provenance & method
- Status
- Official statistics
- Latest period
- Apr 2026
- History depth
- Feb 2026 → Apr 2026
- Scale
- 28,684 rows
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- How this is produced
- Discovered + downloaded from the NHSBSA Open Data Portal (CKAN) package "Dispensing Practices dispensing data". The portal's datastore query layer is unavailable for this package, so the gated loader STREAMS the ~140 MB month CSV (served from Cloudflare R2) and folds it to one practice-grain row. The source rows are at (month × originating practice × dispensing contractor) grain; items + EPS items are SUMMED over contractors to one row per originating practice, then rolled up the ODS tree (practice → PCN → ICB → region → national) by summation. The items-per-1,000 figure is Σ items ÷ Σ registered patients. The dataset tracks dispensing within community contractors IN ENGLAND attributed to the originating practice, so coverage is a SUBSET of GP practices — those whose prescriptions were dispensed in England; cross-border / placeholder source practices that do not join the English GP ODS spine are dropped. Published monthly, ~3 months in arrears.