Monthly prescribing activity data
Data for September 2024
Official statistics
- Published
- 10 December 2024 (Latest release)
- Type
- Statistical report
- Author
- Public Health Scotland
About this release
This release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) presents data for items prescribed in Scotland and reimbursed by the NHS, for September 2024. The data is in two formats - Open Data and an interactive dashboard.
Further information
Open Data files enable independent analysis of NHS Scotland prescribing data. Information is shown by individual drug. There are three different types of data file available:
- Data by Prescriber location, which contains data for each GP practice. This file contains one month of data at prescriber location level.
- Aggregated Data by Health Board, which is an aggregated form of the Data by Prescriber location file, to make it easier to download and manipulate. This file contains yearly data at prescribing health board level, by month of prescribing.
- Data by Dispenser location, which contains data at dispenser location level.
The monthly dashboard contains the possibility to ask four questions of the monthly data, for example what the highest cost therapeutic areas are in terms of prescriptions in the community.
The summary statistic visualisation dashboard shows trends in total items and gross ingredient cost over time, at national and health board level.
Open data from this publication is available from the Scottish Health and Social Care open data portal and an interactive dashboard and monthly aggregated summary statistics can be found on the publication website.
The next release of this publication will be on 21 January 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.