# Pharmacies

Every active community pharmacy in England and Wales, placed at its postcode, from the NHS Organisation Data Service.

## Facts

- Published by: NHS England Organisation Data Service
Ordnance Survey
- Level of detail: Postcode
- Updates: Daily
- Licence: Open Government Licence 3.0 and OS OpenData (Open Government Licence 3.0)
- Levels: Map point

## Caveats

- Each pharmacy is placed at its postcode point, which can be a short walk from the door.
- This is the NHS list of community pharmacies with a contract to dispense. It does not say which services or opening hours each offers.

## Sources

### Pharmacies and dental practices in England and Wales (ODS)

- Publisher: NHS England Organisation Data Service
- Licence: [Open Government Licence 3.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Edition: ODS edispensary fetched 2026-10-19 + ODS egdpprac fetched 2026-10-19
- Published: 19 October 2026
- Fetched: 19 October 2026
- Updates: daily
- Credit: Source: NHS England Organisation Data Service. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Publisher's page: https://digital.nhs.uk/services/organisation-data-service

### Code-Point Open

- Publisher: Ordnance Survey
- Licence: [OS OpenData (Open Government Licence 3.0)](https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendata/licence)
- Edition: Code-Point Open 2026-08
- Fetched: 15 October 2026
- Updates: quarterly
- Credit: Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
- Publisher's page: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/products/code-point-open

## Use it

- [The map](https://openindex.co.uk/map/pharmacies)
- API: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/layers/pharmacies

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/sources/pharmacies.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

- Source: NHS England Organisation Data Service. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Snapshot 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/sources/pharmacies