PHS FOI 2025-002136
- Date of request
- 16 May 2025
- Date of response
- 09 June 2025
- Pharmacy and prescribing
Request
Under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, 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-02530 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).
You provided us with the data for each month of 2023 and 2024 on the 26th March 2025. Would it be possible to have the same data for January 2025, February 2025 and March 2025 please?