PHS FOI 2023-001595
- Date of request
- 26 May 2023
- Date of response
- 31 May 2023
- FOI request ID
- PHS FOI 2023-001595
- Pharmacy and prescribing
Request
“I was wondering if you would be able to provide a data set by developing on the data ‘Prescriptions in the Community’ (https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset/prescriptions-in-the-community) by including Dispenser Code alongside all the original columns: HBT, GPPractice, BNFItemCode, BNFItemDescription, ClassOfPreparationCode, NumberOfPaidItems, PaidQuantity, GrossIngredientCost, PaidDateMonth.
NHSBSA have provided us with something similar for England, the prescribing data has certain exclusions and matches with the EPD.
NHSBSA FOI Request: https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01097 EPD: https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/english-prescribing-data-epd
The data is limited to prescribing within BNF Chapter 23 - Stoma Appliances, limited to England, Wales, Scotland, Guernsey, Alderney, Jersey, and the Isle of Man
The data excludes:
- Items not dispensed, disallowed and those returned to the contractor for further clarification.
- Prescriptions prescribed and dispensed in Prisons, Hospitals and Private prescriptions.
- Items prescribed but not presented for dispensing or not submitted to NHS Prescription Services by the dispenser.
The caveats have been created to match the data on the English Prescribing Dataset (EPD).
If this is something that would be possible, could we please have the data for the last 2 years for 2021 and 2022 as well as January 2023, February 2023, March 2023”