Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 8 Oct 2024 | Updated: 228 days ago
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Description:
Since July 2020 NHS Digital has established a collection of data from electronic and paper prescriptions submitted to the NHSBSA for reimbursement each month.
The data comprises prescriptions for medicines that are dispensed or supplied by community pharmacists, appliance contractors and dispensing doctors in England.
The data also includes:
prescriptions submitted by prescribing doctors, for medicines personally administered in England prescriptions written in England and dispensed outside of England prescriptions written in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey but dispensed in England
Data includes prescriptions issued by prescribers in:
general practice community clinics hospital clinics dentists community nursing services.
There are around 90 to 100 million rows of patient-level data in this collection per month. Each row represents each medicine or appliance on a prescription and includes personal data (for example NHS number) and special category data (data concerning health).
Timescales for dissemination of agreed data can be found under "Our Service Levels" at the following link: [https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-access-request-service-dars-process](https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-access-request-service-dars-process) [Standard response](https://web.www.healthdatagateway.org/dataset/f201b68f-d995-4a70-a9ee-aa3510232777)
Coverage
Typical Age Range:
0-150
Follow Up:
Unknown
Pathway:
Medicines in community settings
Provenance
Origin
Collection Situations:
- Other
- Primary care - Clinic
- Community
- Private
- Prescribing - Community pharmacy
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Monthly
Start Date:
04 January 2015
Time Lag:
1-2 months
Accessibility
Access
Access Service:
Once your DARS application has been approved, data will be made available either
by secure file transfer or through the Data Access Environment (DAE). Secure
file transfer: https://digital.nhs.uk/services/transfer-data-securely DAE:
https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-environment-dae
Access Request Cost:
Delivery Lead Time:
Not applicable
Jurisdictions:
GB-ENG
Data Controller:
NHS England (NHSE)
Data Processor:
NHS England (NHSE)
Usage
Data Use Requirements:
- Institution-specific restrictions
- Project-specific restrictions
- Time limit on use
Resource Creators:
NHS ENGLAND
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
- DM+D
- ODS
Languages:
en
Formats:
- CSV
- Text
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Persons
Unique patients that have submitted prescriptions in Oct 2020.
18824070
Count
31 October 2020