Prescribing practice and dispensing pharmacy open data
Data for July to September 2020
An Official Statistics publication for Scotland
- Published
- 08 December 2020
- 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.
Find out more
Open data files enable independent analysis of prescribing and dispensing activity in the community. Information is shown for each prescribing practice and prescriber type and the number of those items dispensed at different community pharmacies. This can be used in a range of ways including to analyse prescribing and dispensing patterns by geography.
Prescribing practice and dispensing pharmacy data can be found on the Scottish Health and Social Care Data Platform.
Further information is available from the prescribing webpages.
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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.