General Pharmaceutical Services and Prescribing Statistics
Information detailed below is derived from the FPS pharmacy payment system. It includes information on pharmaceutical dispensing volumes and costs based upon payment claims submitted by community pharmacies, dispensing doctors and appliance suppliers. This information does not include details of valid prescriptions that have not been taken to a contractor for dispensing. It also does not include information on pharmaceutical dispensing activity from hospital pharmacies.
Current Annual Publication
Date published: 25th June 2020
Presents information on community pharmacy in Northern Ireland including detail on practitioners, premises and prescribing.
Quarterly Pharmacy Statistics
This quarterly series is a subset of the annual information with data provided for selected key tables. The quarterly updates within a year should be treated as provisional and may be revised when figures are finalised to produce the end of year annual report.
 FPS General Pharmaceutical Services Statistics: To QE September 2020 |
Contrary to Principle T3, Practice T3.6 of the Code of Practice for Statistics, this publication was published at 9.57am on release day and not the required time of 9.30am. This was due to a website failure. The impact was minimised by publication on Gov.UK website at 9:37am
Previous publications
Please see the Pharmacy sections of the FPS Compendium Reports on our archived data page.
Family Practitioner Services Statistics for Northern Ireland 2017/18 to 2018/19