Top items dispensed for oral nutrition in England 2023

This statistic displays the leading ten items for oral nutrition dispensed in England, in 2023, by number of prescription items dispensed. In that year, there were approximately 183 thousand items of specialist food replacer bread dispensed via prescription.

Leading 10 items dispensed for oral nutrition in England in 2023, by number of items

Substance name (BNF code)	Number of items
Ready to serve 1.5 kcal/ml milkshake (0913011)	951,466
Ready to serve 2.4 kcal/ml milkshake lower volume (0913011)	827,621
Powder 1.6 kcal/ml milkshake (0913011)	466,701
Powder extensively hydrolysed formula (0913101)	465,639
Powder thickener - gum based (0913161)	461,252
Ready to serve 1.5 kcal/ml juice style (0913011)	395,458
RtS 2.4 kcal/ml m/sk lower volume, higher protein (0913011)	365,300
RtS 2-2.4 kcal/ml m/sk higher protein,higher energy(0913011)	243,177
Powder amino acid formula (0913107)	204,456
Specialist food replacer bread (0913271)	182,566

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Release date

June 2024

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Region

United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

2023

Supplementary notes

Oral nutrition includes food for special diets and enteral nutrition, for patients with chronic illnesses or conditions who cannot feed normally. Since these products are not medicines they can be supplied to patients via other route, so use shown here is an underestimate.
The statistic shows the number of prescription items dispensed. 'Items' is the number of times a product appears on a prescription form. Prescription forms include both paper prescriptions and electronic messages.

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