Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 5 Feb 2025 | Updated: 386 days ago
Summary
DOI Name:
10.6084/m9.figshare.28287608
Documentation
Description:
The dataset includes pharmacy prescription of patients and detailed data on the prescription, therapeutic class, pharmaceutical class, and prescription strength. It also contains data on medication discontinuity.
Coverage
Spatial:
United Kingdom, England, North West, Manchester
Typical Age Range:
0-150
Follow Up:
Continuous
Pathway:
NA
Provenance
Origin
Purposes:
Care
Sources:
EPR
Collection Situations:
- Prescribing - Hospital
- Prescribing - Community pharmacy
- Secondary care - In-patients
- Secondary care - Outpatients
- Clinic
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Irregular
Distribution Release Date:
21 November 2025
Start Date:
19 August 2022
Time Lag:
Not applicable
Accessibility
Access
Access Service:
In progress. MFT have both on-premise and cloud solutions for accessing data.
Each application will be assessed on a case-by-case basis but the default access
setting is through our secure data environment analytical platform/TRE.
Delivery Lead Time:
Not applicable
Data Controller:
Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Data Processor:
Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Usage
Data Use Limitations:
- Research use only
- General research use
Data Use Requirements:
- Institution-specific restrictions
- Disclosure control
Resource Creators:
To inform CDSU of any publications arising from this Project Dataset and ensure CDSU and the relevant data controller responsible for initially providing data are acknowledged as data sources in all resulting reports and publications. E.g. “We acknowledge the support of the Clinical Data Science Unit, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust for managing and supplying the pseudonymised data from the original data source".
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
- SNOMED CT
- LOCAL
Conforms To:
- LOCAL
- NHS DATA DICTIONARY
Languages:
en
Formats:
- csv
- sql
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Events
Number of prescriptions
28366545
Count
21 November 2025
Persons
Distinct number of subjects in the dataset
481609
Count
21 November 2025