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Minor ailments scheme contracts

UK public sector · 146 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
146
Last 12 months
Median contract
£4k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£3.5m
75 of 146 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
17
Suppliers
237

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most minor ailments scheme contracts took 14% of them (20 of 146).
  • The median contract, £4k, is 96% below the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
  • Yorkshire and The Humber had the most contracts: 61, or 42% of the total.

Who buys minor ailments scheme

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board59 contracts
  2. 2Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board36 contracts
  3. 3NHS Surrey and Sussex Integrated Care Board20 contracts
  4. 4NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB12 contracts
  5. 5NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board4 contracts
  6. 6NHS Devon Integrated Care Board3 contracts
  7. 7NHS Suffolk/Norfolk commissioning bodies2 contracts
  8. 8North Northamptonshire Council1 contract
  9. 9Hertfordshire County Council1 contract
  10. 10NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board1 contract

Top minor ailments scheme contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Asda10 contracts
  2. 2Boots9 contracts
  3. 3Allied Pharmacies7 contracts
  4. 4Rowlands Pharmacy6 contracts
  5. 5Gorgemead Limited t/a Cohens Chemist6 contracts
  6. 6Well Pharmacy4 contracts
  7. 7Aim RX Ltd3 contracts
  8. 8Superdrug Stores PLC3 contracts
  9. 9Sharief Healthcare3 contracts
  10. 10Imaan Healthcare3 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

34Q4 2025*36Q1 202636Q2 202640Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 110 · Wales 36

Yorkshire and The Humber61Wales36South East20North West12South West9East Midlands3East of England2North East1UK-wide or not stated2

What is included

Services ICBs and councils commission from community pharmacies beyond the national contract, such as minor ailments, compliance aids, antiviral supply, palliative medicines stock holding and vitamin schemes, and clinical pharmacists and prescribing reviews supplied to practices and care homes.

  • Pharmacy local enhanced and locally commissioned services
  • Minor ailment schemes
  • Medicines compliance support
  • Antiviral supply for influenza-like illness
  • Palliative and end-of-life medicines stock holding and supply
  • Healthy Start vitamin supply via pharmacies
  • Medicines optimisation services
  • Primary care prescribing review and audit
  • Prescribing pharmacists for outbreak treatment

What is not included

  • Vaccinations delivered in pharmacies (hlt.comm.immunisation-services)
  • Sexual health, stop smoking and supervised consumption in pharmacies (hlt.comm.sexual-health-services, hlt.comm.stop-smoking-services, hlt.comm.drug-alcohol-treatment)
  • Shared care drug monitoring by practices (hlt.primary.gp-enhanced-services)
  • Outpatient dispensing (hlt.pharm.outpatient-pharmacy-dispensing)
  • Medicines supply (hlt.pharm.medicines)
  • Pharmacy locums directed by the buyer (rec.clin.allied-health-science-pharmacy-locums)
  • Prescribing decision support software (it.lob.prescribing-decision-support)

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