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A smaller-volume dispensary in North East and North Cumbria ICB — below the 25th percentile of peers. Runs 4 of the 6 advanced services and sits in the top quartile for blood-pressure checks. Claimed 3 Pharmacy Quality Scheme domains in 2023/24. Owned by Bestway National Chemists Limited, a group with 485 NHS branches in England. Has held an NHS contract at this location for more than 40 years.
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.
A single engagement score combining NMS, Pharmacy First, BP checks, DMS, contraception and flu — each normalised against the branch’s own dispensing volume, so scale is stripped out. A score at the 72nd percentile reads as “delivers more advanced-service activity per item dispensed than 72% of reporting pharmacies”.
21.32 advanced services per 1k items · national median 17.54
Dark line is this pharmacy. Dashed line is the median across all active community pharmacies in North East and North Cumbria ICB. Shaded band shows the middle 50% (25th–75th percentile). Hover any month for exact values and rank.
Distribution of 599 community pharmacies in North East and North Cumbria ICB for Dec 2025.
Each card is one advanced NHS service. Sparkline is the last 12 months of activity; the percentage is 6-month trend (last 6 vs prior 6), coloured green when growing >3%, red when declining >3%. Services with no activity at all in the last 12 months are shown as inactive.
PQS funding band and payment are not published in NHSBSA open data — domains claimed serves as an engagement proxy.
Branch 347 of 485 in Bestway National Chemists Limited's network by NHS items.
Bar length is relative to the largest ICB in the network; percentage shows share of the full network.
Data sources: NHSBSA Consolidated Pharmaceutical List, NHSBSA Pharmacy and Appliance Contractor Dispensing Data, NHSBSA Pharmacy Quality Scheme, NHSBSA Adult Flu Vaccination Service, Companies House. All under Open Government Licence v3.0 or Crown Copyright. Figures represent NHS-reimbursed activity only; private or locally commissioned services are not included. Peer distributions are computed in real time across same-ICB, same-contract-type pharmacies for the latest reporting month.