For UK pharmacy groups
We mapped 230 UK pharmacy groups running 1,515 branches between them, and pulled every branch's real dispensing volume from NHS England's published data.
The average English pharmacy dispenses 8,700 a month.
34,800 NHS items a month between them.
Revenue a month, at run rate
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Year one, all branches together
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Patients build to run rate over the first seven months*, then hold.
Year one, staged across the year
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A patient stays about seven months*, so you reach run rate the month your first cohort starts leaving and new ones replace them.
| Branch | Items a month | Share | Revenue a month |
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NHS items a month per group, across the 199 we can measure. Yours in terracotta.
Every figure marked * above is set here. Change any of them and everything recalculates.
Sources. Dispensing volumes: NHS Business Services Authority, pharmacy and appliance contractor dispensing data, May 2026, per contractor code. Patients per branch: derived from Helix Health's own figure of £5-8k a month once a pharmacy is past its first 30 patients, against the 8,700 items an average English pharmacy dispenses. Patient value: Helix Health's own published catalogue. Retention: about half of patients stop within twelve months across 37 studies and 9,341 adults (Oxford, January 2026). Every one of them is editable above.
This works from dispensing volume alone. It can't tell you which of your branches sit somewhere that will actually take weight loss, skin, HRT or men's health, and that decides which site you launch first.
What this is. An estimate built from published NHS dispensing volumes and the stated assumptions, which you can change. It is indicative only. It is not a quote, a forecast, or professional, financial or regulatory advice, and using it creates no client or advisory relationship. Figures are provided as they are, without warranties of any kind to the fullest extent permitted by law, and Swan Medical Technologies Ltd accepts no liability for any loss arising from decisions taken on the basis of it.
Dispensing data. Branch names, addresses and monthly item counts are reproduced from the NHS Business Services Authority's pharmacy and appliance contractor dispensing data for May 2026, each against its own contractor code. NHSBSA publishes for England; Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland publish separately and are not covered. NHSBSA does not endorse this tool.
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