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Fig. 1Anonymised sample

Pharmacy market share over time

One Scottish GP surgery · Jan 2025 to Jun 2026

Jun 2026	Share	Change	Trend
Pharmacy A	38.7%	−0.4 pts	Stable
Pharmacy B	26.3%	−2.4 pts	Losing share
Pharmacy C	17.6%	−2.1 pts	Losing share
Pharmacy D	6.0%	New	Gaining

Fig. 1 — Each pharmacy's share of one surgery's prescriptions, by month. Anonymised sample from Public Health Scotland data.

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NHS Business Services AuthorityPublic Health ScotlandNHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (Primary Care Services)Business Services Organisation (Northern Ireland)Companies HouseNHS EnglandMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentScottish GovernmentWelsh GovernmentOffice for National Statistics (Census 2021National Records of ScotlandNorthern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA)Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA)TranslinkOrdnance Survey (OS Open Roads)GEOLYTIX (Retail Points)Department for Transport (NaPTAN)Office of Rail and RoadImprovement Service Spatial HubNHS Scotland health boards

See it in the data.

A closer look at the numbers behind each decision. Anonymised sample figures.

Follow the prescriptions

See how a surgery's scripts move between pharmacies over time.

Fig. 2

Pharmacy market share over time

One Scottish GP surgery · Jan 2025 to Jun 2026 · anonymised

Pharmacy APharmacy BPharmacy CPharmacy DAll other pharmacies

Share of the surgery's prescriptions each month · Public Health Scotland data

Fig. 3

Share of one GP surgery's prescriptions

A Scottish surgery, June 2026 · hover a pharmacy to trace it

39%

26%

18%

11%

Pharmacy	Share	Change	Trend
Pharmacy A 156 scripts a day	38.7%	−0.4 pts	Stable
Pharmacy B 106 scripts a day	26.3%	−2.4 pts	Losing share
Pharmacy C 71 scripts a day	17.6%	−2.1 pts	Losing share
Pharmacy D 24 scripts a day	6.0%	New	Gaining

Know your market

Put your local footprint beside regional and national peers.

Fig. 4

Catchment view

12-month average to June 2026 · anonymised per-month activity

Your pharmacy

7,530

Pharmacy A 0.3 miles

9,840

Pharmacy B 0.6 miles

5,210

Pharmacy C 0.8 miles

3,960

Pharmacy D 1.0 mile

1,380

Pharmacies within 1 mile

27%

Your share within 1 mile

2nd

Your rank within 1 mile

Fig. 5

Benchmark

12 months to June 2026 · Local: within 2 miles · Regional: health board · National: Scotland

	You	Local	Regional	National
Items a month	7,530	6,120	6,840	6,450
Growth on last year	+4.8%	+1.9%	+2.3%	+1.7%
NHS payment per item	£13.52	£13.10	£13.35	£13.28
Pharmacy First per 1,000 items	24.1	28.3	30.2	29.0

Top 15%

for growth, nationally

Bottom 35%

for Pharmacy First, nationally

See the whole picture

Follow your branches and trace unusual months back to the source.

Fig. 6

Top 10 of 21 branches

Items / month · 3 months to June 2026 · change vs previous 3 months

1Branch A

15,541+1.8%

2Branch B

15,363+10.0%

3Branch C

10,880+3.6%

4Branch D

10,732+3.6%

5Branch E

9,361+8.1%

6Branch F

8,648−0.7%

7Branch G

8,469+14.9%

8Branch H

7,717+5.3%

9Branch I

7,046−3.4%

10Branch J

6,999+2.8%

Fig. 7

Pharmacy First payment

July 2025 to June 2026 · Edinburgh pharmacy, anonymised

£17,228Apr 2026 · year-end payment spike

Every average on Pharmacy8 sits on top of the full monthly history, so you can see what is driving it.

Ask Octo.

One question, answered across the data that matters.

Fig. 8

Octo, the Pharmacy8 assistant

Ask a plain question. Octo pulls the figures from every dataset at once.

Tap a question to see how Octo answers. Illustrative answers on anonymised sample data.

Also inside

Who lives around a pharmacy, and which branches need a closer look.

Fig. 9

Catchment intelligence

The population within half a mile of one Scottish pharmacy, anonymised

0.0

Average SIMD decile (1 = most deprived)

6,284

people

15%

in most deprived areas

data zones

Income

5.0

Employment

4.4

Health

4.2

Education

3.9

Crime

5.8

Housing

6.2

Access

7.2

What it means: high health deprivation points to a heavy long-term-condition load, a strong base for Pharmacy First and medicines optimisation.

Fig. 10 · Star branch

+0.0%

items at one branch (Apr–Jun 2026 vs Jan–Mar 2026). The fastest growth in the estate.

Fig. 11 · Needs attention

0.0

Pharmacy First consultations per 1,000 items at another branch.

This branch

12.6

Group average

30.1

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Data: NHSBSA · PHS · NWSSP · BSO · Companies House · Data credits