# PharmAnalyser

> PharmAnalyser is a UK pharmacy data and analytics platform. It publishes
> organisation-level NHS data for every pharmacy and GP practice in England, Scotland,
> Wales and Northern Ireland, plus pharmacies in the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey.

## Key facts (as of October 2026)

- 12,989 pharmacies with published NHS activity across the four UK nations.
- About 100 million NHS items dispensed a month in England, tracked pharmacy by pharmacy.
- Monthly dispensing history for England back to April 2014.
- Pharmacy Twin benchmarks each pharmacy against up to 100 similar pharmacies.
- Searching pharmacies, GP practices and practitioners is free; paid plans add full sections and tools.
- Users include pharmacy owners, groups and multiples, valuers, lenders, buyers, suppliers, LPCs, ICBs and researchers.

PharmAnalyser covers individual organisation records (pharmacies and GP surgeries),
NHS geography (ICBs, health boards, LHBs, LHSCGs, LPCs), and public leaderboards for
dispensing activity, EPS nominations (England), list size, and related NHS statistics.
Pages combine register identity, addresses, health-geography context, and published
NHS activity metrics where available for each jurisdiction.

## Search and discovery

- [Search](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/search): Search UK pharmacies and GP practices by name, postcode, or organisation code.
- [GP surgery directory](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/gp): Find any NHS GP surgery by name or ODS code, with nation leaderboards.
- [Pharmacy chains and groups](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/pharmacy/group): UK pharmacy owners ranked by number of branches, from the GPhC register.

## Pharmacy data

- [Compare pharmacies](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/compare/pharmacy): Side-by-side comparison of dispensing and activity metrics for selected pharmacies.
- [MHRA alerts](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/mhra-alerts): Published MHRA medicines alerts relevant to pharmacy practice (public register).

## Features

- [Pharmacy Growth (Pro)](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/pharmacy-growth): Weekly Google Maps checks from 25 spots around a pharmacy: how often it's in Google's top 3, who patients find instead, the services worth promoting, its listing, reviews and website, and one to-do list of fixes. Included in Pro, and in a first Plus subscription for its first month.
- [PharmIQ for ChatGPT and Claude](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/help/pharmiq): MCP connector that answers questions about any UK pharmacy from PharmAnalyser data inside AI assistants.
- [Reports](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/pricing): Dated PDF reports built from one data snapshot, with private share links, including a Valuer's Report preset.

## Research

- [Research hub](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/research): Original UK pharmacy research and market reports built on official NHS data.
- [The UK Pharmacy Access Report 2026](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/research/uk-pharmacy-access-report-2026): How close every UK small area is to its nearest pharmacy, by nation and deprivation, with methodology and sources.

## GP practice data

- [Compare GP surgeries](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/compare/gp): Side-by-side comparison of list size and published metrics for selected GP practices.

## NHS geography

- [Integrated care boards (England)](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/icb): Index of NHS England ICBs with links to organisation counts and detail pages.
- [Health boards (Scotland)](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/hb): Index of NHS Scotland health boards with pharmacy and GP context.
- [Local health boards (Wales)](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/lhb): Index of NHS Wales local health boards.
- [Local commissioning groups (Northern Ireland)](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/lhscg): Index of Northern Ireland LHSCG geography pages.
- [Local pharmaceutical committees (England)](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/lpc): Index of England LPC areas linking pharmacies within each committee.
- [UK cities (pharmacies by place)](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/places): Directory of 76 GOV.UK civic cities with active pharmacy counts by postcode-to-LAD membership.
- [Example city — Glasgow](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/places/glasgow): Illustrative UK city detail page with live pharmacy count.

## Leaderboards

- [Leaderboards hub](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/leaderboards): Entry point for public NHS pharmacy and GP leaderboards by nation and metric.
- [England pharmacy statistics](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/leaderboards/pharmacy/eng): Ranked England pharmacies by items dispensed and related published NHS metrics.
- [Scotland pharmacy statistics](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/leaderboards/pharmacy/sct): Ranked Scotland pharmacies by items dispensed and related published PHS metrics.
- [EPS nominations (England)](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/leaderboards/pharmacy/eng/eps): England pharmacy EPS nomination counts and change where published by NHSBSA.
- [Distance-selling pharmacies (England DSP)](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/leaderboards/pharmacy/dsp): Leaderboard filtered to England distance-selling pharmacy contractors.
- [England GP practice leaderboards](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/leaderboards/gp/eng): England GP practices ranked by registered list size and NHS payment metrics.

## Example organisation records

- [England pharmacy example](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/pharmacy/eng/FKX65): Sample pharmacy detail page with register fields, geography, and dispensing context.
- [England GP practice example](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/gp/eng/G81047): Sample GP surgery page with list size, geography, and practice identity.
- [ICB detail example](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/icb/QK1): Sample integrated care board page linking pharmacies and GP practices in the area.

## Data provenance

Organisation data is compiled from official public sources, including NHS England and
NHSBSA open data, Public Health Scotland, NHS Wales and Digital Health and Care Wales
publications, Northern Ireland health service registers, and relevant pharmacy regulatory
registers (GPhC, PSNI) depending on jurisdiction. Crown dependency pharmacy data uses
published local registers where available.

> No patient-identifiable data is published.

## Structured data (JSON-LD)

Public pages include Schema.org JSON-LD so machines can interpret what each URL
represents. Main categories:

- Organisation records — pharmacy and GP practice detail pages.
- NHS geography — area indexes and detail pages (ICBs, health boards, LHBs, LHSCGs, LPCs).
- Leaderboards — ranked lists of pharmacies and GP practices by published metrics.
- Site overview — homepage programme summary and sitewide navigation.
- Informational pages — About, FAQ, Contact, and related support content.

## Machine-readable discovery

- [Sitemap index](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/sitemap-index.xml): Exhaustive list of indexable URLs (pharmacies, GP practices, geographies, static pages).
- [Robots.txt](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/robots.txt): Crawler rules; dashboard, auth, API, and share-report paths are disallowed.
- [MHRA alerts feed (RSS)](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/mhra-alerts/feed.xml): Latest MHRA drug recalls and safety notices, with pharmacy and GP tags.
- [Research feed (RSS)](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/research/feed.xml): New PharmAnalyser research and market reports.
- [Full URL index (llms-full.txt)](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/llms-full.txt): Extended static route list plus sitemap feed pointers for LLM crawlers.

## About

- [Home](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/): UK pharmacy data and analytics: search any pharmacy or GP practice free.
- [About PharmAnalyser](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/about): Product overview, data scope, and operator information.
- [Pricing](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/pricing): Free search; Plus £9.99 a month (a first Plus subscription includes Pro for the first month); Pro £24.99 a month (Growth, compare, watchlists, PharmIQ profile tools); Enterprise for groups. Advanced report sections are priced separately.
- [FAQ](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/faq): Frequently asked questions about data sources and platform use.
- [Contact](https://www.pharmanalyser.co.uk/contact): Contact and support enquiries.

Support: support@pharmanalyser.co.uk