Everyone at the EBM DataLab wishes you a very Happy New Year! Unfortunately, the NHS is still having the same problems in sourcing generics. The PSNC have just announced the latest list of price concessions for December 2017. The list was slightly smaller than November’s, with 86 lines,but we are still estimating an monthly impact for […]
Price Concessions – why are the excess costs lower in November than October 2017?
We’ve taken a quick look at the data to see why, despite the number of price concession lines have increased to 91 in November, the estimated total excess cost has reduced. (Reminder – we’ve used September prescribing data to estimate the effects, as that’s the latest data available). The full table is below, but here […]
Price Concessions Estimate for November 2017 – CCG data
The PSNC has published the list today of Price Concessions for November 2017. The list is the biggest yet, at 91 lines. We’ve taken a first stab at calculating the estimated effect for CCGs, using September 2017 prescribing data. The Google Sheet can be found here. (edit) – the Google Sheet now also contains national calculations per […]
Price concessions data for CCGs, including October 2017 estimate
We have been writing a lot recently about the effect of price concessions on the NHS primary care drugs bill, and on the problems community pharmacy are facing. We’ve been asked for some CCG-level data, and so here it is; both for the confirmed data for April-September 2017, and for an estimate for October, which […]
Getting the data for the Drug Tariff tool (*sigh*)
Today we’ve released our new Drug Tariff viewer. It was a dataset that we previously didn’t hold, but thought that it would be useful to turn into a graphical viewer for people to use to see how the reimbursement price on drugs changes over time, and also to use as the basis of the effect that […]
New interactive OpenPrescribing tool: Explore Changes in the Drug Tariff (and out of stock medicines) back to 2010!
The Drug Tariff, published on behalf of the Department of Health and updated monthly, is a strange and mysterious document, written largely in legalese, and understood by pharmacists and almost no-one else. Ask a GP where they find out the cost of the drug, and they’ll say either their computer system or the BNF. For pharmacists, […]