Community pharmacy contractor activity
Data for January to March 2024
An Official Statistics publication for Scotland
- Published
- 11 June 2024
- Type
- Statistical report
- Author
- Public Health Scotland
About this release
Public Health Scotland has released Community Pharmacy activity and direct pharmaceutical care services in an open data format. This information release makes these data available in response to information requests for contractor data relating to specific Community Pharmacy services.
Main points
Open Data files enable independent analysis of Community Pharmacy activity and the direct pharmaceutical care services they provide. Information is shown for each contractor and for the following:
- Overall dispensing activity and payments
- Pharmacy First Service
- Medicines: Care and Review Service
- Emergency Hormonal Contraception service
- Smoking Cessation Service
- Methadone dispensing
- Activity numbers for Consultations, GP Referrals
- Dispensing Activity for the Pharmacy First Service
Further information is available from the prescribing webpages and an interactive dashboard can be found on the contractor activity open data dashboard on shinyapps.io.
General enquiries
If you have an enquiry relating to this publication, please contact David Scott at phs.prescribing@phs.scot.
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Older versions of this publication
Versions of this publication released before 16 March 2020 may be found on the Data and Intelligence, Health Protection Scotland or Improving Health websites.