National therapeutic indicators data visualisation
Data to June 2024
An Official Statistics publication for Scotland
- Published
- 22 October 2024 (Latest release)
- Type
- Statistical report
- Author
- Public Health Scotland
About this release
This release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) is an update of the National Therapeutic Indicators (NTIs) for data up to June 2024. The NTIs are used for quality improvement work. The publication presents a visualisation of information by NHS Board, Health and Social Partnership (HSCP), General Practitioner (GP) practice, GP cluster and practice peer group.
Main points
There are currently 63 primary care, and 17 secondary care prescribing indicators detailed in the publication. The example indicator above shows that the number of people prescribed an antidepressant in combination with a long-term benzodiazepine or z-drug (>8 weeks) per 1,000 list size has stayed consistent, with a small decrease overall from 11.07 in April to June 2022 to 10.69 in April to June 2024.
Background
The data visualisation allows a more in-depth and interactive visual analysis of the current National Therapeutic Indicators paper publication, published by the Effective Prescribing and Therapeutics Division of the Scottish Government.
The visualisation includes a presentation of variation and prescribing trends, and comparisons of HSCP, GP clusters and practice peer groups. This update also provides a practice level dashboard showing comparisons between indicators, HSCP trends and an NHS Board indicator summary. Prescribing trends for hospital prescribing is also presented at NHS Board level.
This interactive visualisation allows the user to look at the variation in prescribing practice between GP practices and should be useful to both prescribers and associated prescribing staff who want an 'easy to access' visualisation view of prescribing data.
This is the latest release of the data visualisation and further developments will follow, as prioritised by a steering group for this work which is commissioned by the Effective Prescribing and Therapeutics division of the Scottish Government. The update includes expanded detail for a number of indicators to help aid clinicians and prescribing advisers.
An accompanying dashboard view displaying NTIs for Respiratory and Diabetes alongside already published Admissions, Prevalence and demographics data is also now available.
Further information
Data from this publication are available from the publication page.
The next release of this publication will be January 2025.
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