OpenPrescribing Hospitals – coming soon
With the support of the NHS Primary Care and Medicines Analytics Unit we
have started to build OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
Every month, NHS England publishes processed pharmacy stock control data in the form of the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset (SCMD). The full technical specification of the SCMD is available to read, but briefly: it is hospital pharmacy stock control data, which is collected and processed by Rx-info, and is now published on the NHS Business Services Authority website in the NHS dm+d standard. We have been spending time learning more about the data and carefully curating the data ready for use in OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
Sneak preview…
We are working hard to include similar features to OpenPrescribing.net including
- A custom ‘analyse page’
- Pre-built curated measures based on NHS England Medicines Optimisation Opportunities / medicines safety topics which we will expand over time
- A summary of data submitted by NHS Trusts in England