A NEW study has revealed that the NHS in Herefordshire and Worcestershire has the second-highest prescription spending.

Conducted by NHSDiscountOffers.co.uk, the study analysed NHS Business Services Authority data on prescription costs and compared it to each Integrated Care Board (ICB)'s population to identify the highest per-person spending.

ICBs are NHS organisations responsible for planning health services for their local population.

The NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB allocates £280 per person for prescriptions. Despite having the fewest prescribed items at 15,953,376, the total expenditure reaches £227,956,506 for a population of 812,712. This indicates that while the volume of prescriptions is low, the cost is high, averaging £14.29 per item.

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The ICB at the top of the study's ranking was Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, with £332 per person spent on prescriptions.

West Yorkshire was third, with a prescription expenditure of £210 per person, and Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent was fourth, with £202 spent per person.

The top five closes with NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, where there is a £200 per person expense on prescriptions.