Community pharmacy contractor activity
Data for October to December 2024
An Official Statistics publication for Scotland
- Published
- 18 March 2025 (Latest release)
- Type
- Statistical report
- Author
- Public Health Scotland
About this release
This release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) provides Community Pharmacy activity and direct pharmaceutical care services data. The data is in two formats - Open Data and an interactive dashboard.
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.
Additional prescribing open data is available through other publications - monthly prescribing activity data and prescribing practice and dispensing pharmacy.
Further information
The next release of this publication will be June 2025.
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.