Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 8 Oct 2024 | Updated: 228 days ago
Documentation
Description:
The Enhanced Prescribing Database (EPD) covers drugs prescribed in primary care and dispensed by community pharmacies. Prescriptions are submitted to the Business Services Organisation (BSO) by community pharmacies for payment. The EPD includes prescriptions issued by all types of prescribers including doctors and nurses, and all those issued and dispensed by pharmacists, dispensing doctors and appliance suppliers. Only prescriptions that are subsequently dispensed and processed by BSO for payment are included in the EPD. Patient information is not captured for all prescriptions. Only prescription forms with barcodes that were successfully read have patient Health and Care Numbers (HCN) recorded. Consequently datasets containing prescription information linked to patient HCN will not give a count of the total number of items prescribed during the time period. Rather it contains all relevant items prescribed during the time period for which the patient details were known.
Coverage
Spatial:
United Kingdom,Northern Ireland
Typical Age Range:
0-150
Follow Up:
Unknown
Pathway:
This dataset deals with prescribed medications only
Provenance
Origin
Purposes:
Administrative
Sources:
Paper-based
Collection Situations:
Prescribing - Community pharmacy
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Irregular
Start Date:
01 January 2010
Time Lag:
1-2 months
Accessibility
Access
Access Service:
Remote access can now be granted via an HSCNI tenancy of the UK Secure
e-Research Platform (UK SeRP), the HBS still offer the physical safe setting in
Belfast for local research.
Access Request Cost:
Delivery Lead Time:
Not applicable
Jurisdictions:
GB-NIR
Data Controller:
Business Services Organisation
Data Processor:
HSC Honest Broker Service
Usage
Data Use Limitations:
Research use only
Data Use Requirements:
Project-specific restrictions
Resource Creators:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The authors would like to acknowledge the help provided by the staff of the Honest Broker Service (HBS) within the Business Services Organisation Northern Ireland (BSO). The HBS is funded by the BSO and the Department of Health (DoH). The authors alone are responsible for the interpretation of the data and any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the BSO.
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
DM+D
Languages:
en
Formats:
- text
- csv
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Findings
Approximately 42 million prescription items per year
42000000
Count
22 June 2021