Pharmacy benchmarking
Owners, buyers, advisers and groups
Benchmarking compares one pharmacy with every comparable pharmacy in the same nation, measure by measure, from the figures the NHS publishes for each pharmacy. For each measure it shows the pharmacy's average a month, its percentile and rank, the spread of its peers and the average of the busiest tenth.
Compare nationally or within the ICB or health board, and narrow the comparison to pharmacies of a similar size. A pharmacy that does not offer a service is left out of that service's ranking rather than ranked last, and nations are never mixed.
What it shows
- Percentile, rank and spread for every published measure, over 1, 3, 6 or 12 months
- National, regional and similar-volume comparisons
- Standing at a glance, with filters for the upper quartile and the lower half
- Published payments benchmarked in Scotland
- Local market share, Pharmacy First mix and GP feeders alongside
- Commentary from Octo on where the gaps are
New to it? Read the step-by-step guide: How to benchmark a pharmacy against its peers
Included with Octo
Pharmacy benchmarking is part of Octo, Pharmacy8's paid plan. A free account lets you look up three pharmacies a month.