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Sharief Healthcare Limited runs a network of 41 branches across 14 integrated care boards. Dispensed 5.1m NHS items in the last 12 months, up 20.9% on the prior year. Estimated annual NHS income from dispensing and advanced services is around £17.4m. Biggest footprint in Cheshire and Merseyside ICB with 13 branches (32% of the network). Deeply engaged with advanced services — nearly every branch is active, averaging 5.4 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.
Plus 4 more ICBs with ≤1 branch each.
Sharief Healthcare Limited is strongly over-indexed to deprived communities (+17pp vs a uniform national distribution). National baseline: exactly 30% of LSOAs sit in the most-deprived third, so that's the neutral line.
Least-deprived third: 16% · 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 Sharief Healthcare Limited’s 41 reporting branches sit above the 55th national percentile for combined service engagement (NMS, Pharmacy First, BP, DMS, contraception, flu per 1,000 items). 27 branches beat the national median; 14 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 | Cleveland · TS19 7PQ | North East and North Cumbria ICB | 274.8k | +6% | 6 / 6 | |
| 2 | Gloucestershire · GL5 4JG | Gloucestershire ICB | 272.7k | +2% |
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 Sharief Healthcare 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. 3 branches with ≥95% change — typically closed, transferred, or newly onboarded within the window — excluded from the plot so the main cluster is readable.
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.
| 3 | Cleveland · TS7 9PD | North East and North Cumbria ICB | 252.8k | +7% | 5 / 6 |
| 4 | Greater Manchester · WN2 3QN | Greater Manchester ICB | 224.9k | +4% | 6 / 6 |
| 5 | WA8 9DT | Cheshire and Merseyside ICB | 198.0k | +7% | 6 / 6 |
| 6 | Staffordshire · ST3 4DF | Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent ICB | 195.7k | +5% | 6 / 6 |
| 7 | L13 7DT | Cheshire and Merseyside ICB | 192.1k | -1% | 6 / 6 |
| 8 | Merseyside · L22 4QD | Cheshire and Merseyside ICB | 186.6k | +5% | 6 / 6 |
| 9 | L13 5SA | Cheshire and Merseyside ICB | 165.3k | -6% | 5 / 6 |
| 10 | Cleveland · TS5 5HR | North East and North Cumbria ICB | 155.5k | +13% | 5 / 6 |
| 11 | West Sussex · PO22 6DZ | Sussex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 154.8k | +8% | 6 / 6 |
| 12 | Devon · EX38 8HN | Devon ICB | 149.9k | +9% | 6 / 6 |
| 13 | Cheshire · ST7 2AA | Cheshire and Merseyside ICB | 139.6k | +4% | 6 / 6 |
| 14 | Merseyside · WA11 9HB | Cheshire and Merseyside ICB | 136.4k | +5% | 6 / 6 |
| 15 | Cornwall · PL17 7AE | Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly ICB | 135.3k | +3% | 5 / 6 |
| 16 | Cornwall · PL24 2AQ | Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly ICB | 134.0k | +5% | 6 / 6 |
| 17 | Wiltshire · SP4 8DL | Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB | 130.8k | +1% | 5 / 6 |
| 18 | L36 5XN | Cheshire and Merseyside ICB | 127.4k | +8% | 6 / 6 |
| 19 | Norfolk · NR5 8AD | Norfolk and Waveney ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 122.6k | +2% | 6 / 6 |
| 20 | Cornwall · TR6 0JL | Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly ICB | 115.5k | +8% | 6 / 6 |
| 21 | BL3 5HP | Greater Manchester ICB | 115.2k | +4% | 5 / 6 |
| 22 | L20 5DQ | Cheshire and Merseyside ICB | 110.0k | +88% | 6 / 6 |
| 23 | Cornwall · PL24 2JL | Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly ICB | 106.3k | — | 5 / 6 |
| 24 | Merseyside · CH43 5RE | Cheshire and Merseyside ICB | 101.7k | +9% | 6 / 6 |
| 25 | Cleveland · TS13 4HA | North East and North Cumbria ICB | 100.7k | +4% | 5 / 6 |
| 26 | Cornwall · TR18 2QW | Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly ICB | 96.7k | -0% | 6 / 6 |
| 27 | Merseyside · L20 4SF | Cheshire and Merseyside ICB | 91.7k | +7% | 6 / 6 |
| 28 | Lancashire · FY5 4AF | Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB | 89.7k | — | 4 / 6 |
| 29 | County Durham · TS18 1JY | North East and North Cumbria ICB | 86.8k | +108% | 6 / 6 |
| 30 | Merseyside · L37 4DL | Cheshire and Merseyside ICB | 86.3k | +4% | 6 / 6 |
| 31 | Cleveland · TS18 1YE | — | 84.0k | -58% | 1 / 6 |
| 32 | West Yorkshire · LS25 7JN | West Yorkshire ICB | 83.1k | -1% | 5 / 6 |
| 33 | Cumbria · LA15 8DL | Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB | 83.0k | +7% | 5 / 6 |
| 34 | Somerset · TA9 3BT | Somerset ICB | 82.8k | +14% | 5 / 6 |
| 35 | Cornwall · TR9 6AP | Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly ICB | 71.9k | +5% | 6 / 6 |
| 36 | Lancashire · PR25 2EB | Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB | 69.9k | +118% | 4 / 6 |
| 37 | Hampshire · PO1 5BZ | Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB | 52.1k | +255% | 4 / 6 |
| 38 | L6 4BW | Cheshire and Merseyside ICB | 50.7k | -2% | 6 / 6 |
| 39 | Cornwall · PL34 0DA | — | 38.5k | +3% | 6 / 6 |
| 40 | Merseyside · WA9 5JD | Cheshire and Merseyside ICB | 35.8k | -7% | 6 / 6 DSP |
| 41 | Devon · EX1 2RJ | Devon ICB | 28.5k | — | 4 / 6 |