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Avicenna Retail LTD runs a network of 30 branches across 9 integrated care boards. Dispensed 4.2m NHS items in the last 12 months, broadly flat year-on-year. Estimated annual NHS income from dispensing and advanced services is around £13.7m. Biggest footprint in North East and North Cumbria ICB with 8 branches (27% of the network). Deeply engaged with advanced services — nearly every branch is active, averaging 5.7 of 6 service lines.
A step-change usually marks an acquisition; a steady slope is organic trade. The Pharmacy First launch in January 2024 shows up across most groups.
Avicenna Retail LTD is broadly balanced across the deprivation spectrum (within ±5pp of national). National baseline: exactly 30% of LSOAs sit in the most-deprived third, so that's the neutral line.
Least-deprived third: 22% · middle: 44%
Each coloured segment is one of the ten IMD deciles (segment widths scale with branch counts). Red = most-deprived communities; green = least-deprived. A heavy red-weighted bar reads as “serves deprived communities” — a meaningful operator identity in a sector where historical contract allocation concentrated pharmacies in low-income areas.
Half of Avicenna Retail LTD’s 30 reporting branches sit above the 42th national percentile for combined service engagement (NMS, Pharmacy First, BP, DMS, contraception, flu per 1,000 items). 6 branches beat the national median; 24 sit below.
Long-running appointments suggest a stable owner-operator. A cluster of resignations or a short director pattern can indicate a recent change in control, a restructure, or onboarding of external investors.
| # | Location | ICB | 12-month trend | Items (12m) | 6-mo Δ | Services |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tyne & Wear · SR5 3PZ | North East and North Cumbria ICB | 211.9k | +4% | 6 / 6 | |
| 2 | Tyne and Wear · NE13 6EN | North East and North Cumbria ICB | 201.8k | +7% |
Group identity reconciled from NHSBSA Contractor Details using legal-entity name, enriched with Companies House registry data for the top 100 corporate groups. Dispensing aggregated across every branch currently owned by the group. Officer tenure and SIC codes sourced live from Companies House under Crown Copyright.
Estimate derived from published NHS fee rates: £2.85/item (SAF + professional fee), £28/NMS, £35/DMS, £17/Pharmacy First, £15/BP check, £18/contraception consultation; flu uses actual £ fees published per dose. Category M reimbursement, establishment payment, transitional payment, PQS banding and the £1,000 Pharmacy First monthly fixed fee are all excluded. Private and locally-commissioned income is not included.
Each cell is one month. Darker cells mean more branches joined the network that month. Evenly-spaced light cells suggest organic growth or absorption by transfer; concentrated hot cells mark discrete acquisitions.
100-hour contracts carry higher opening-hour commitments for a higher core NHS fee. Distance-selling pharmacies fulfil prescriptions by post only — no walk-in customers.
Emerald shading is national pharmacy density; amber outlines flag hexes containing a Avicenna Retail LTD branch. Lets you read regional strategy at a glance — clustered around a few cities, broadly distributed, or concentrated in one corner of the country.
Each sparkline shows one branch's 12-month items trend. The percentage is the six-month change (last six vs prior six months); it's coloured green when the branch is growing by 3%+, red when declining by 3%+, neutral otherwise. Shapes that cluster tightly suggest a homogeneous chain; wide variation points to an acquired portfolio of independents. Click any card for its profile.
Each dot is one branch. The vertical line is the median 12-month items in this network; the horizontal line is flat (0%) trend. Quadrants are descriptive, not judgemental: a smaller-volume branch can be entirely appropriate where it serves a small or remote population. Commissioners and operators typically look at the lower-left quadrant as an early-warning area. Click any dot for the branch profile.
Each cell is the branch's year-on-year % items change for that month — red for decline, stone for flat, green for growth, capped at ±25%. A branch that turns red and stays red is a genuine contractor; a stone band is stable; an intermittent amber-to-green ramp signals recovery. Rows are ordered by 12-month volume — the right-hand number is items dispensed in the last 12 months, coloured red/green by the branch's 6-month trend so growth and decline are visible at both granularities.
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| 3 | Cornwall · EX23 8JS | Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly ICB | 198.2k | +6% | 6 / 6 |
| 4 | NE5 2UY | — | 194.1k | +2% | 6 / 6 |
| 5 | Tyne & Wear · SR6 9BP | North East and North Cumbria ICB | 177.9k | +3% | 6 / 6 |
| 6 | Kent · TN10 4AE | — | 171.4k | +3% | 6 / 6 |
| 7 | BA3 3SX | Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB | 170.8k | +7% | 6 / 6 |
| 8 | Tyne and Wear · NE28 8JA | North East and North Cumbria ICB | 165.9k | +2% | 6 / 6 |
| 9 | Northamptonshire · NN14 4JH | Northamptonshire ICB | 165.2k | +9% | 6 / 6 |
| 10 | Nottinghamshire · NG21 9QP | Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB | 156.8k | +2% | 6 / 6 |
| 11 | Nottinghamshire · S81 9AN | Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB | 155.4k | +6% | 5 / 6 |
| 12 | Essex · CM7 9BY | Mid and South Essex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 155.1k | +1% | 5 / 6 |
| 13 | Tyne & Wear · NE8 1NB | — | 149.0k | +1% | 6 / 6 |
| 14 | Tyne & Wear · SR5 4BW | North East and North Cumbria ICB | 148.6k | +4% | 6 / 6 |
| 15 | Tyne and Wear · NE34 0AR | North East and North Cumbria ICB | 145.8k | +6% | 6 / 6 |
| 16 | Dorset · BH11 9TW | Dorset ICB | 140.6k | +6% | 5 / 6 |
| 17 | NE13 6LH | North East and North Cumbria ICB | 137.1k | +4% | 5 / 6 |
| 18 | Gateshead · NE10 8XQ | — | 134.1k | +5% | 6 / 6 |
| 19 | Warwickshire · CV22 5BP | Coventry and Warwickshire ICB | 129.1k | +2% | 5 / 6 |
| 20 | South Yorkshire · S25 4DB | South Yorkshire ICB | 124.1k | +5% | 6 / 6 |
| 21 | Nottinghamshire · NG21 0RB | Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB | 119.2k | +0% | 6 / 6 |
| 22 | Tyne & Wear · NE3 5TT | North East and North Cumbria ICB | 112.1k | +4% | 6 / 6 |
| 23 | Dorset · SP8 4AG | — | 109.6k | +39% | 6 / 6 |
| 24 | Nottinghamshire · S81 9QG | Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB | 105.8k | +3% | 6 / 6 |
| 25 | Tyne & Wear · NE8 4DP | — | 102.8k | -4% | 6 / 6 |
| 26 | BA3 3PL | Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB | 98.0k | +1% | 5 / 6 |
| 27 | West Yorkshire · WF13 1HN | — | 95.7k | +4% | 5 / 6 |
| 28 | Cornwall · EX23 9BP | Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly ICB | 93.5k | +1% | 4 / 6 |
| 29 | Nottinghamshire · NG22 8LA | Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB | 93.4k | +6% | 6 / 6 |
| 30 | West Yorkshire · WF13 2QQ | — | 76.5k | -3% | 6 / 6 |