Prescribing practice and dispensing pharmacy open data
Data from April to June 2023
An Official Statistics publication for Scotland
- Published
- 28 November 2023
- Type
- Statistical report
- Author
- Public Health Scotland
About this release
Public Health Scotland (PHS) has released data on prescribing activity in the community in an open data format. This information release makes these data available in response to information requests on prescribing and subsequent dispensing of prescriptions.
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 NSS Open Data Platform.
Further information is available from the prescribing webpages (external website).
General enquiries
If you have an enquiry relating to this publication, please contact David Scott at phs.prescribing@phs.scot.
Media enquiries
If you have a media enquiry relating to this publication, please contact the Communications and Engagement team.
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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.