The information is in the following table.
Primary Care Trust (PCT) Dispensing practices Proportion of dispensing practices (percentage) Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT 0 0 Barking and Dagenham PCT 0 0 Barnet PCT 0 0 Barnsley PCT 5 13 Bassetlaw PCT 4 36 Bath and North East Somerset PCT 6 22 Bedfordshire PCT 8 36 Berkshire East PCT 2 4 Berkshire West PCT 11 21 Bexley Care Trust 0 0 Birmingham East and North PCT 0 0 Blackburn with Darwen PCT 0 0 Blackpool PCT 0 0 Bolton PCT 0 0 Bournemouth and Poole PCT 1 2 Bradford and Airedale PCT 2 3 Brent Teaching PCT 0 0 Brighton and Hove City PCT 0 0 Bristol PCT 0 0 Bromley PCT 0 0 Buckinghamshire PCT 15 26 Bury PCT 0 0 Calderdale PCT 1 3 Cambridgeshire PCT 39 57 Camden PCT 0 0 Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT 7 13 Central Lancashire PCT 2 2 City and Hackney Teaching PCT 0 0 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT 37 54 County Durham PCT 18 27 Coventry Teaching PCT 1 2 Croydon PCT 0 0 Cumbria PCT 15 23 Darlington PCT 2 18 Derby City PCT 0 0 Derbyshire County PCT 23 24 Devon PCT 32 30 Doncaster PCT 4 10 Dorset PCT 27 46 Dudley PCT 0 0 Ealing PCT 0 0 East and North Hertfordshire PCT 11 18 East Lancashire PCT 4 8 East Riding of Yorkshire PCT 16 44 East Sussex Downs and Weald PCT 6 27 Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT 20 19 Enfield PCT 0 0 Gateshead PCT 3 9 Gloucestershire PCT 28 35 Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT 7 27 Greenwich Teaching PCT 0 0 Halton and St Helens PCT 0 0 Hammersmith and Fulham PCT 0 0 Hampshire PCT 30 21 Haringey Teaching PCT 0 0 Harrow PCT 0 0 Hartlepool PCT 0 0 Hastings and Rother PCT 9 26 Havering PCT 0 0 Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT 0 0 Herefordshire PCT 10 45 Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT 0 0 Hillingdon PCT 0 0 Hounslow PCT 0 0 Hull PCT 1 2 Isle of Wight Healthcare PCT 1 6 Islington PCT 0 0 Kensington and Chelsea PCT 0 0 Kingston PCT 0 0 Kirklees PCT 3 4 Knowsley PCT 0 0 Lambeth PCT 0 0 Leeds PCT 8 8 Leicester City PCT 0 0 Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT 20 24 Lewisham PCT 0 0 Lincolnshire PCT 56 77 Liverpool PCT 0 0 Luton Teaching PCT 1 3 Manchester PCT 0 0 Medway Teaching PCT 5 9 Mid Essex PCT 25 52 Middlesbrough PCT 0 0 Milton Keynes PCT 0 0 Newcastle PCT 0 0 Newham PCT 0 0 Norfolk PCT 59 66 North East Essex PCT 16 40 North East Lincolnshire PCT 5 16 North Lancashire PCT 5 18 North Lincolnshire PCT 8 47 North Somerset PCT 2 9 North Staffordshire PCT 10 30 North Tyneside PCT 1 4 North Yorkshire and York PCT 57 57 Northamptonshire PCT 23 32 Northumberland Care Trust 16 36 Nottingham City PCT 0 0 Nottinghamshire County PCT 15 16 Oldham PCT 0 0 Oxfordshire PCT 17 32 Peterborough PCT 10 32 Plymouth Teaching PCT 1 2 Portsmouth City Teaching PCT 0 0 Redbridge PCT 0 0 Redcar and Cleveland PCT 2 13 Richmond and Twickenham PCT 0 0 Rotherham PCT 4 11 Salford PCT 0 0 Sandwell PCT 0 0 Sefton PCT 0 0 Sheffield PCT 2 2 Shropshire County PCT 19 45 Solihull PCT 0 0 Somerset PCT 19 32 South Birmingham PCT 0 0 South East Essex PCT 2 3 South Gloucestershire PCT 4 14 South Staffordshire PCT 16 18 South Tyneside PCT 0 0 South West Essex PCT 5 7 Southampton City PCT 0 0 Southwark PCT 0 0 Stockport PCT 0 0 Stockton-on-Tees Teaching 1 4 Stoke on Trent PCT 1 2 Suffolk PCT 41 60 Sunderland Teaching PCT 0 0 Surrey PCT 14 10 Sutton and Merton PCT 0 0 Swindon PCT 4 14 Tameside and Glossop PCT 0 0 Telford and Wrekin PCT 1 5 Torbay Care Trust 0 0 Tower Hamlets PCT 0 0 Trafford PCT 0 0 Wakefield District PCT 6 17 Walsall Teaching PCT 1 2 Waltham Forest PCT 0 0 Wandsworth PCT 0 0 Warrington PCT 1 4 Warwickshire PCT 9 25 West Essex PCT 12 32 West Hertfordshire PCT 4 6 West Kent PCT 35 34 West Sussex PCT 16 20 Western Cheshire PCT 8 24 Westminster PCT 0 0 Wiltshire PCT 21 34 Wirral PCT 0 0 Wolverhampton City PCT 0 0 Worcestershire PCT 22 34 Source: Primary Care Trust “Exeter” payment systems (2006-07)
Information is not collected centrally on minima or maxima average payments made to general practitioners (GPs) in each primary care trust for dispensing medicines. Overall dispensing GPs earned on average £126,996 in 2006-07, £23,000 more than non dispensing GPs.
The pharmacy consultation paper “Pharmacy in England: Building on Strengths—delivering the future—proposals for legislative change” was published on 27 August 2008. As part of this consultation, we have put forward options for possible reform of general practitioner dispensing arrangements on which we are seeking views. We have no preferred option at this stage nor have we come to a view as to whether any reform of these particular arrangements is necessary. However, any decisions will seek to protect the access to medicines for vulnerable members of the community.