Pereira Index

Pereira Index monthly supply report

Monthly supply report: Apr 2020

Items dispensed in England in Apr 2020, as published by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA): market volume, producers by items dispensed, products appearing for the first time, products with no items in the latest three months, and how much of the volume the registry maps to products.

Data as of 18 Oct 2026. Apr 2020 is counted from FOI-03965; the newest month with data is May 2026.

Items dispensed (England, NHSBSA). Market volume counts every item NHSBSA lists, mapped to a product or not; the producer and product figures count mapped items only. Newest release counted: FOI-03965. Months counted from FOI-03965 (May 2019 to Apr 2020); each month comes from its newest release.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dispensing data: Data Warehouse, NHSBSA Copyright 2026.

NHSBSA dispensing figures cover England only and count dispensed items, not patients or prescriptions. They are lagged by several months, revised retrospectively and unvalidated by NHSBSA, and their units are not standardised because these products are not on the NHSBSA drug database. One product can appear under many spellings, potency notations and pack sizes.

Market volume

145 items dispensed (England, NHSBSA), FOI-03965, Apr 2020: every item NHSBSA lists for the month, mapped to a product or not.

Up 38 items (35.5%) from Mar 2020 (107 items).

All items dispensed per month (England, NHSBSA), May 2019 to Apr 202012 months from May 2019 to Apr 2020: 631 items in all. The largest month is Apr 2020 with 145 items. The newest month, Apr 2020, has 145 items.May 2019: 13 itemsJun 2019: 23 itemsJul 2019: 26 itemsAug 2019: 31 itemsSep 2019: 30 itemsOct 2019: 40 itemsNov 2019: 46 itemsDec 2019: 44 itemsJan 2020: 59 itemsFeb 2020: 67 itemsMar 2020: 107 itemsApr 2020: 145 items
All items dispensed per month (England, NHSBSA), May 2019 to Apr 2020, mapped to a product or not. The table below lists every month and the release it is counted from.
  • Counted month
All items dispensed per month (England, NHSBSA), May 2019 to Apr 2020
MonthItems dispensed (England, NHSBSA)Release
May 201913FOI-03965
Jun 201923FOI-03965
Jul 201926FOI-03965
Aug 201931FOI-03965
Sep 201930FOI-03965
Oct 201940FOI-03965
Nov 201946FOI-03965
Dec 201944FOI-03965
Jan 202059FOI-03965
Feb 202067FOI-03965
Mar 2020107FOI-03965
Apr 2020145FOI-03965

Producers by items dispensed, descending

No item dispensed in Apr 2020 is mapped to a product in the registry yet, so there are no producer figures for this month.

Products appearing for the first time in NHSBSA data

Products whose first month with mapped items dispensed (England, NHSBSA) is Apr 2020, by items dispensed, descending. An earlier spelling that is not mapped yet can make a product look new; the coverage figures below show how much is mapped.

No product has its first month with mapped items in Apr 2020.

Products with no items in the latest three months

Products with mapped items dispensed (England, NHSBSA) in the six months with data from Aug 2019 to Jan 2020 and none from Feb 2020 to Apr 2020, by items in those six months, descending. This describes NHSBSA figures only: it does not mean that a product has been discontinued or is unavailable.

No product has mapped items from Aug 2019 to Jan 2020.

Coverage

Apr 2020
0 of 145 items dispensed (England, NHSBSA) are mapped to a product in the registry (0.0%).
May 2019 to Apr 2020
0 of 631 items are mapped (0.0%).
Products
0 of the 792 products in the registry have mapped items in Apr 2020.

Coverage grows as the registry maps more of the spellings NHSBSA publishes. Unmapped items count towards market volume but not towards the producer and product figures.

Commentary

Market volume

No commentary for Apr 2020 yet.

Producers and products

No commentary for Apr 2020 yet.

Data notes

No commentary for Apr 2020 yet.