Pereira Index

Pereira Index monthly supply report

Monthly supply report: Dec 2020

Items dispensed in England in Dec 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. Dec 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 (Jan 2020 to Dec 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

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

Down 39 items (4.5%) from Nov 2020 (872 items).

All items dispensed per month (England, NHSBSA), Jan 2020 to Dec 202012 months from Jan 2020 to Dec 2020: 4,469 items in all. The largest month is Nov 2020 with 872 items. The newest month, Dec 2020, has 833 items.Jan 2020: 59 itemsFeb 2020: 67 itemsMar 2020: 107 itemsApr 2020: 145 itemsMay 2020: 210 itemsJun 2020: 321 itemsJul 2020: 334 itemsAug 2020: 353 itemsSep 2020: 556 itemsOct 2020: 612 itemsNov 2020: 872 itemsDec 2020: 833 items
All items dispensed per month (England, NHSBSA), Jan 2020 to Dec 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), Jan 2020 to Dec 2020
MonthItems dispensed (England, NHSBSA)Release
Jan 202059FOI-03965
Feb 202067FOI-03965
Mar 2020107FOI-03965
Apr 2020145FOI-03965
May 2020210FOI-03965
Jun 2020321FOI-03965
Jul 2020334FOI-03965
Aug 2020353FOI-03965
Sep 2020556FOI-03965
Oct 2020612FOI-03965
Nov 2020872FOI-03965
Dec 2020833FOI-03965

Producers by items dispensed, descending

No item dispensed in Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 2020.

Products with no items in the latest three months

Products with mapped items dispensed (England, NHSBSA) in the six months with data from Apr 2020 to Sep 2020 and none from Oct 2020 to Dec 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 Apr 2020 to Sep 2020.

Coverage

Dec 2020
0 of 833 items dispensed (England, NHSBSA) are mapped to a product in the registry (0.0%).
Jan 2020 to Dec 2020
0 of 4,469 items are mapped (0.0%).
Products
0 of the 792 products in the registry have mapped items in Dec 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 Dec 2020 yet.

Producers and products

No commentary for Dec 2020 yet.

Data notes

No commentary for Dec 2020 yet.