Pereira Index

Pereira Index monthly supply report

Monthly supply report: Apr 2021

Items dispensed in England in Apr 2021, 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 24 Oct 2026. Apr 2021 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 2020 to Apr 2021); 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

1,915 items dispensed (England, NHSBSA), FOI-03965, Apr 2021: every item NHSBSA lists for the month, mapped to a product or not.

Up 183 items (10.6%) from Mar 2021 (1,732 items).

All items dispensed per month (England, NHSBSA), May 2020 to Apr 202112 months from May 2020 to Apr 2021: 10,206 items in all. The largest month is Apr 2021 with 1,915 items. The newest month, Apr 2021, has 1,915 items.May 2020: 210 itemsJun 2020: 321 itemsJul 2020: 334 itemsAug 2020: 353 itemsSep 2020: 556 itemsOct 2020: 612 itemsNov 2020: 872 itemsDec 2020: 833 itemsJan 2021: 1,025 itemsFeb 2021: 1,443 itemsMar 2021: 1,732 itemsApr 2021: 1,915 items
All items dispensed per month (England, NHSBSA), May 2020 to Apr 2021, 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 2020 to Apr 2021
MonthItems dispensed (England, NHSBSA)Release
May 2020210FOI-03965
Jun 2020321FOI-03965
Jul 2020334FOI-03965
Aug 2020353FOI-03965
Sep 2020556FOI-03965
Oct 2020612FOI-03965
Nov 2020872FOI-03965
Dec 2020833FOI-03965
Jan 20211,025FOI-03965
Feb 20211,443FOI-03965
Mar 20211,732FOI-03965
Apr 20211,915FOI-03965

Producers by items dispensed, descending

Items dispensed (England, NHSBSA) in Apr 2021 that the registry maps to a product, by producer: 5 of 1,915 items (0.2%) are mapped. Each share is of the mapped items.

Producers by items dispensed (England, NHSBSA) in Apr 2021, descendingAurora: 5 items (100.0%)
Every producer with mapped items this month, by items dispensed, descending, with each one's share of mapped items.
Producers by items dispensed (England, NHSBSA) in Apr 2021, descending
ProducerItems dispensed (England, NHSBSA)Share of mapped items
Aurora5100.0%

Products appearing for the first time in NHSBSA data

Products whose first month with mapped items dispensed (England, NHSBSA) is Apr 2021, 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.

Products appearing for the first time in NHSBSA data in Apr 2021
ProductProducerFormatItems dispensed (England, NHSBSA), Apr 2021
LAC La Confidential 24%AuroraFlower1

Products with no items in the latest three months

Products with mapped items dispensed (England, NHSBSA) in the six months with data from Aug 2020 to Jan 2021 and none from Feb 2021 to Apr 2021, 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 2020 to Jan 2021.

Coverage

Apr 2021
5 of 1,915 items dispensed (England, NHSBSA) are mapped to a product in the registry (0.2%).
May 2020 to Apr 2021
9 of 10,206 items are mapped (0.0%).
Products
2 of the 792 products in the registry have mapped items in Apr 2021.

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 2021 yet.

Producers and products

No commentary for Apr 2021 yet.

Data notes

No commentary for Apr 2021 yet.