Lincoln Co-operative Chemists Limited runs a network of 39 branches across 2 integrated care boards. Dispensed 5.4m NHS items in the last 12 months, broadly flat year-on-year. Estimated annual NHS income from dispensing and advanced services is around £16.7m. Heavily concentrated in Lincolnshire ICB (36 of 39 branches, 92%). Deeply engaged with advanced services — nearly every branch is active, averaging 5.2 of 6 service lines. Operates 1 distance-selling pharmacy.
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.
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.
Lincoln Co-operative Chemists Limited 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: 37% · middle: 37%
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 Lincoln Co-operative Chemists Limited’s 39 reporting branches sit above the 33th national percentile for combined service engagement (NMS, Pharmacy First, BP, DMS, contraception, flu per 1,000 items). 0 branches beat the national median; 39 sit below.
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.
Emerald shading is national pharmacy density; amber outlines flag hexes containing a Lincoln Co-operative Chemists Limited 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 | Lincolnshire · PE20 1DS | Lincolnshire ICB | 204.3k | +7% | 5 / 6 |
| 4 | LN2 2HP | Lincolnshire ICB | 201.9k | +0% | 5 / 6 |
| 5 | LN6 8NH | Lincolnshire ICB | 190.0k | -0% | 5 / 6 |
| 6 | LN6 7PH | Lincolnshire ICB | 176.4k | +1% | 6 / 6 |
| 7 | LN5 8DB | Lincolnshire ICB | 172.9k | -0% | 6 / 6 |
| 8 | LN5 9TR | Lincolnshire ICB | 171.8k | +2% | 5 / 6 |
| 9 | Lincolnshire · DN21 2UQ | Lincolnshire ICB | 171.5k | +2% | 5 / 6 |
| 10 | LN6 0QB | Lincolnshire ICB | 166.3k | -0% | 6 / 6 |
| 11 | Lincolnshire · LN11 9PG | Lincolnshire ICB | 165.8k | -0% | 5 / 6 |
| 12 | LN6 8HW | Lincolnshire ICB | 163.8k | -7% | 5 / 6 |
| 13 | LN2 3LU | Lincolnshire ICB | 157.1k | +6% | 6 / 6 |
| 14 | Lincolnshire · DN21 2BL | Lincolnshire ICB | 149.8k | +1% | 5 / 6 |
| 15 | Lincolnshire · NG34 9DY | Lincolnshire ICB | 148.9k | +2% | 5 / 6 |
| 16 | Lincoln · LN4 1DQ | Lincolnshire ICB | 144.1k | +6% | 6 / 6 |
| 17 | Lincolnshire · PE21 8UF | Lincolnshire ICB | 143.4k | +4% | 6 / 6 |
| 18 | Lincolnshire · LN3 4JL | Lincolnshire ICB | 142.3k | +4% | 6 / 6 |
| 19 | LN4 1LH | Lincolnshire ICB | 140.8k | -1% | 5 / 6 |
| 20 | LN1 2HG | Lincolnshire ICB | 137.6k | -1% | 5 / 6 |
| 21 | Lincolnshire · LN1 1XP | Lincolnshire ICB | 135.1k | -2% | 5 / 6 |
| 22 | East Yorkshire · HU17 7JY | Humber and North Yorkshire ICB | 128.4k | +3% | 6 / 6 |
| 23 | LN1 3LL | Lincolnshire ICB | 125.5k | +2% | 5 / 6 |
| 24 | Lincoln · LN4 3EA | Lincolnshire ICB | 123.8k | +7% | 5 / 6 |
| 25 | LN5 9SA | Lincolnshire ICB | 118.5k | +1% | 5 / 6 |
| 26 | LN4 2LD | Lincolnshire ICB | 118.4k | +2% | 5 / 6 |
| 27 | Lincolnshire · PE12 7AX | Lincolnshire ICB | 117.5k | -3% | 5 / 6 |
| 28 | Lincolnshire · NG34 9RA | Lincolnshire ICB | 115.6k | -1% | 5 / 6 |
| 29 | Lincolnshire · PE20 3LH | Lincolnshire ICB | 112.8k | +3% | 5 / 6 |
| 30 | Lincolnshire · LN9 5HP | Lincolnshire ICB | 109.8k | +2% | 5 / 6 |
| 31 | LN2 2PD | Lincolnshire ICB | 108.3k | +2% | 6 / 6 |
| 32 | Lincolnshire · PE11 4ST | Lincolnshire ICB | 107.3k | +8% | 6 / 6 |
| 33 | PE23 5JJ | Lincolnshire ICB | 107.3k | -0% | 5 / 6 |
| 34 | LN2 5HT | Lincolnshire ICB | 106.0k | -2% | 5 / 6 |
| 35 | LN6 5TW | Lincolnshire ICB | 89.2k | +3% | 5 / 6 |
| 36 | North Lincolnshire · DN17 1QL | Humber and North Yorkshire ICB | 84.9k | +4% | 6 / 6 |
| 37 | Lincolnshire · LN6 9NG | Lincolnshire ICB | 77.4k | +4% | 5 / 6 |
| 38 | North East Lincolnshire · DN35 7DG | Humber and North Yorkshire ICB | 75.2k | +20% | 6 / 6 |
| 39 | LN6 9WF | Lincolnshire ICB | 65.7k | +3% | 5 / 6 |