Current Annual Publication
Date Published: 25th June 2026
Date of Next Release: June 2027
The statistics will be released on this page at 9.30am. If you have issues accessing the information it can also be found on the gov.uk site
Responsible Statistician: Bethany McDowell
Email: Bethany.McDowell@hscni.net
The data contained in this publication are presented on a financial year basis and are derived from the Family Practitioner Services pharmacy payment system. They present a view of community prescription dispensing in Northern Ireland and are primarily based on prescription forms submitted by community pharmacies, dispensing doctors and appliance suppliers to FPS, BSO for payment. They do not cover secondary and private pharmaceutical provision or valid prescriptions that have not been taken to a contractor for dispensing.
Information is provided on dispensing contractors as well as volumes and costs of items dispensed by various patient demographics and therapeutic groups. Comparator information on dispensing contractors and dispensed items from across the UK is also presented. Data detailed in this publication are also available in spreadsheet format (Microsoft Excel) to aid secondary analysis. Supplementary tables have been produced for the first time which detail patient level information of dispensing by specific drug type, previously included within the main annex tables.
Quarterly Pharmaceutical Services Statistics
Date Published: 25th June 2026
Date of Next Release: August 2026
The statistics will be released on this page at 9.30am. If you have issues accessing the information it can also be found on the gov.uk site.
Responsible Statistician: Bethany McDowell
Email: Bethany.McDowell@hscni.net
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.
Quality Documentation
Listed below are various documents to support the publication of FPS Pharmaceutical Statistics.
FPS Pharmacy Quality Assurance of Administrative Data Report