Paydens Limited runs a network of 80 branches across 5 integrated care boards. Dispensed 10.1m NHS items in the last 12 months, down 4.4% on the prior year. Estimated annual NHS income from dispensing and advanced services is around £32.1m. Heavily concentrated in Kent and Medway ICB (54 of 80 branches, 68%). Deeply engaged with advanced services — nearly every branch is active, averaging 5.4 of 6 service lines. 27 branches (34%) show a greater-than-15% items decline over the last six months — a notable early-warning signal across the network. Operates 1 distance-selling pharmacy.
A step-change usually marks an acquisition; a steady slope is organic trade. The Pharmacy First launch in January 2024 shows up across most groups.
100-hour contracts carry higher opening-hour commitments for a higher core NHS fee. Distance-selling pharmacies fulfil prescriptions by post only — no walk-in customers.
Paydens Limited is modestly skewed to least-deprived areas (-8pp). National baseline: exactly 30% of LSOAs sit in the most-deprived third, so that's the neutral line.
Least-deprived third: 28% · middle: 50%
Each coloured segment is one of the ten IMD deciles (segment widths scale with branch counts). Red = most-deprived communities; green = least-deprived. A heavy red-weighted bar reads as “serves deprived communities” — a meaningful operator identity in a sector where historical contract allocation concentrated pharmacies in low-income areas.
Half of Paydens Limited’s 79 reporting branches sit above the 52th national percentile for combined service engagement (NMS, Pharmacy First, BP, DMS, contraception, flu per 1,000 items). 43 branches beat the national median; 36 sit below.
Long-running appointments suggest a stable owner-operator. A cluster of resignations or a short director pattern can indicate a recent change in control, a restructure, or onboarding of external investors.
| # | Location | ICB | 12-month trend | Items (12m) | 6-mo Δ | Services |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kent · ME20 6QJ | Kent and Medway ICB | 258.0k | -3% | 6 / 6 | |
| 2 | Kent · TN12 6EL | Kent and Medway ICB | 213.5k | -1% | 6 |
Group identity reconciled from NHSBSA Contractor Details using legal-entity name, enriched with Companies House registry data for the top 100 corporate groups. Dispensing aggregated across every branch currently owned by the group. Officer tenure and SIC codes sourced live from Companies House under Crown Copyright.
Estimate derived from published NHS fee rates: £2.85/item (SAF + professional fee), £28/NMS, £35/DMS, £17/Pharmacy First, £15/BP check, £18/contraception consultation; flu uses actual £ fees published per dose. Category M reimbursement, establishment payment, transitional payment, PQS banding and the £1,000 Pharmacy First monthly fixed fee are all excluded. Private and locally-commissioned income is not included.
Each cell is one month. Darker cells mean more branches joined the network that month. Evenly-spaced light cells suggest organic growth or absorption by transfer; concentrated hot cells mark discrete acquisitions.
Emerald shading is national pharmacy density; amber outlines flag hexes containing a Paydens Limited branch. Lets you read regional strategy at a glance — clustered around a few cities, broadly distributed, or concentrated in one corner of the country.
Each sparkline shows one branch's 12-month items trend. The percentage is the six-month change (last six vs prior six months); it's coloured green when the branch is growing by 3%+, red when declining by 3%+, neutral otherwise. Shapes that cluster tightly suggest a homogeneous chain; wide variation points to an acquired portfolio of independents. Click any card for its profile.
Each dot is one branch. The vertical line is the median 12-month items in this network; the horizontal line is flat (0%) trend. Quadrants are descriptive, not judgemental: a smaller-volume branch can be entirely appropriate where it serves a small or remote population. Commissioners and operators typically look at the lower-left quadrant as an early-warning area. Click any dot for the branch profile. 26 branches with ≥95% change — typically closed, transferred, or newly onboarded within the window — excluded from the plot so the main cluster is readable.
Each cell is the branch's year-on-year % items change for that month — red for decline, stone for flat, green for growth, capped at ±25%. A branch that turns red and stays red is a genuine contractor; a stone band is stable; an intermittent amber-to-green ramp signals recovery. Rows are ordered by 12-month volume — the right-hand number is items dispensed in the last 12 months, coloured red/green by the branch's 6-month trend so growth and decline are visible at both granularities. Showing the 60 busiest branches out of 80.
| 3 | Kent · CT9 3NR | Kent and Medway ICB | 198.5k | -3% | 6 / 6 |
| 4 | East Sussex · TN40 1HJ | Sussex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 197.1k | +0% | 5 / 6 |
| 5 | Kent · CT6 5RE | Kent and Medway ICB | 187.3k | +1% | 5 / 6 100h |
| 6 | Kent · CT19 4ET | Kent and Medway ICB | 186.8k | +38% | 5 / 6 |
| 7 | Kent · CT11 8AD | Kent and Medway ICB | 184.9k | +0% | 5 / 6 |
| 8 | Kent · TN10 3NP | Kent and Medway ICB | 181.9k | +2% | 6 / 6 |
| 9 | Kent · ME3 9AA | Kent and Medway ICB | 177.5k | +4% | 6 / 6 |
| 10 | East Sussex · BN27 1BH | Sussex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 168.9k | +4% | 6 / 6 |
| 11 | Kent · CT11 9PR | Kent and Medway ICB | 163.5k | -5% | 6 / 6 |
| 12 | Kent · ME10 2ST | Kent and Medway ICB | 162.6k | +0% | 6 / 6 |
| 13 | Kent · CT14 7EQ | Kent and Medway ICB | 161.1k | +5% | 5 / 6 100h |
| 14 | Kent · ME13 8PN | Kent and Medway ICB | 160.7k | +1% | 6 / 6 |
| 15 | Kent · CT18 7BS | Kent and Medway ICB | 158.9k | +9% | 5 / 6 |
| 16 | West Sussex · BN11 1JA | Sussex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 158.4k | -8% | 6 / 6 |
| 17 | Kent · TN24 9JZ | Kent and Medway ICB | 153.3k | -13% | 6 / 6 |
| 18 | Kent · ME15 9QD | Kent and Medway ICB | 144.7k | -9% | 5 / 6 |
| 19 | East Sussex · TN37 6RE | Sussex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 142.5k | -3% | 5 / 6 |
| 20 | Surrey · RH8 0PG | Surrey Heartlands ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 128.8k | +3% | 6 / 6 |
| 21 | Kent · CT14 9LF | Kent and Medway ICB | 128.7k | +5% | 5 / 6 |
| 22 | Kent · TN30 6AU | Kent and Medway ICB | 127.5k | +5% | 6 / 6 |
| 23 | Kent · ME19 4AU | Kent and Medway ICB | 127.4k | +3% | 6 / 6 |
| 24 | West Sussex · BN44 3RJ | Sussex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 127.3k | +6% | 6 / 6 |
| 25 | Kent · TN2 4PH | Kent and Medway ICB | 125.5k | +0% | 6 / 6 |
| 26 | West Sussex · BN43 6BT | Sussex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 124.7k | -0% | 5 / 6 |
| 27 | Kent · CT1 1WJ | Kent and Medway ICB | 124.2k | +2% | 5 / 6 |
| 28 | Kent · ME8 6JX | Kent and Medway ICB | 123.1k | +10% | 6 / 6 |
| 29 | Kent · CT21 6BD | Kent and Medway ICB | 121.5k | +3% | 5 / 6 |
| 30 | Surrey · CR3 5XL | Surrey Heartlands ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 121.5k | -1% | 5 / 6 |
| 31 | East Sussex · BN25 1LL | Sussex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 121.4k | +7% | 6 / 6 |
| 32 | Kent · BR3 3PR | South East London ICB | 118.2k | -1% | 5 / 6 100h |
| 33 | Kent · BR5 2RG | South East London ICB | 118.1k | -3% | 5 / 6 |
| 34 | Kent · ME6 5SN | Kent and Medway ICB | 108.6k | +2% | 6 / 6 |
| 35 | Kent · ME5 9LR | Kent and Medway ICB | 106.1k | -6% | 6 / 6 |
| 36 | Kent · BR6 6BG | South East London ICB | 102.7k | +1% | 5 / 6 |
| 37 | Kent · TN11 9HX | Kent and Medway ICB | 101.6k | +3% | 6 / 6 |
| 38 | Kent · CT16 1EG | Kent and Medway ICB | 101.6k | -2% | 5 / 6 |
| 39 | Kent · TN4 9TF | Kent and Medway ICB | 98.6k | -0% | 6 / 6 |
| 40 | Kent · ME6 5DF | Kent and Medway ICB | 93.6k | +1% | 6 / 6 |
| 41 | Kent · TN8 5AJ | Kent and Medway ICB | 93.4k | +0% | 5 / 6 |
| 42 | Kent · TN4 8RN | Kent and Medway ICB | 90.9k | -3% | 6 / 6 |
| 43 | Kent · TN1 2UN | Kent and Medway ICB | 89.7k | +7% | 6 / 6 |
| 44 | Kent · CT9 1PU | Kent and Medway ICB | 87.7k | -3% | 5 / 6 |
| 45 | Kent · CT10 2AD | Kent and Medway ICB | 84.8k | -1% | 5 / 6 |
| 46 | East Sussex · TN5 6AP | Sussex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 82.8k | +15% | 5 / 6 |
| 47 | West Sussex · BN15 8AN | Sussex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 81.6k | +5% | 6 / 6 |
| 48 | Kent · CT4 5JY | Kent and Medway ICB | 80.8k | +1% | 5 / 6 |
| 49 | East Sussex · BN27 1AN | Sussex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 75.0k | -3% | 5 / 6 |
| 50 | East Sussex · BN2 4AD | Sussex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 66.3k | +3% | 6 / 6 |
| 51 | Kent · ME14 1RH | — | 63.2k | -9% | 6 / 6 |
| 52 | Kent · ME1 2DT | Kent and Medway ICB | 58.4k | -8% | 6 / 6 |
| 53 | Kent · ME1 1JT | Kent and Medway ICB | 52.9k | +23% | 6 / 6 |
| 54 | Essex · SS1 2AB | Mid and South Essex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 46.2k | -100% | 5 / 6 100h |
| 55 | West Sussex · BN14 8JE | Sussex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 38.4k | -100% | 6 / 6 |
| 56 | West Sussex · BN14 0DL | Sussex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 38.0k | -100% | 6 / 6 |
| 57 | Kent · CT21 5LE | Kent and Medway ICB | 23.7k | -100% | 5 / 6 |
| 58 | Kent · TN13 1AR | Kent and Medway ICB | 16.1k | -100% | 5 / 6 |
| 59 | East Sussex · BN2 6TD | Sussex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 15.5k | -100% | 6 / 6 |
| 60 | Kent · CT9 5JW | Kent and Medway ICB | 15.0k | -100% | 5 / 6 |
| 61 | Kent · ME14 4LX | Kent and Medway ICB | 13.1k | -100% | 5 / 6 |
| 62 | West Sussex · BN11 1UY | Sussex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 12.9k | -100% | 6 / 6 |
| 63 | East Sussex · TN39 4SL | Sussex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 12.4k | -100% | 5 / 6 |
| 64 | Kent · ME8 9PW | Kent and Medway ICB | 11.5k | -100% | 6 / 6 |
| 65 | Kent · ME3 9DT | Kent and Medway ICB | 11.0k | -100% | 6 / 6 |
| 66 | Kent · CT7 9SF | Kent and Medway ICB | 10.9k | -100% | 5 / 6 |
| 67 | Kent · CT8 8RF | Kent and Medway ICB | 9.7k | -100% | 5 / 6 |
| 68 | Kent · ME12 1UP | Kent and Medway ICB | 9.5k | -100% | 5 / 6 |
| 69 | Kent · TN9 1BB | — | 9.4k | -100% | 5 / 6 |
| 70 | Kent · CT7 9RE | Kent and Medway ICB | 9.2k | -100% | 5 / 6 |
| 71 | West Sussex · BN17 7JQ | Sussex ICB (C 02-Apr-26) | 9.2k | -100% | 5 / 6 |
| 72 | Kent · TN18 4ES | Kent and Medway ICB | 9.0k | -100% | 5 / 6 |
| 73 | Kent · TN29 0NH | Kent and Medway ICB | 8.8k | -100% | 5 / 6 |
| 74 | Kent · TN24 8DN | Kent and Medway ICB | 8.4k | -100% | 5 / 6 |
| 75 | Kent · CT2 0BD | Kent and Medway ICB | 8.0k | -100% | 5 / 6 |
| 76 | Kent · DA11 0HN | Kent and Medway ICB | 8.0k | -100% | 5 / 6 |
| 77 | DA8 1QY | South East London ICB | 7.8k | -100% | 4 / 6 |
| 78 | Kent · CT14 7NX | Kent and Medway ICB | 6.9k | -100% | 5 / 6 |
| 79 | Kent · ME7 4PN | Kent and Medway ICB | 5.4k | -100% | 5 / 6 |
| 80 | Kent · ME15 9NE | Kent and Medway ICB | 2.4k | -38% | 5 / 6 DSP |