The data that drives OpenPrescribing is described briefly in our FAQ. It is supplied by NHSBSA and NHS Digital, and a few other sources. Over the years we have come to understand the limitations of this data. We’re sharing them here, so researchers can take them into account when carrying out analyses. When using Practice Level […]
OpenPrescribing October 2018 Newsletter
All England Dashboard – A New Feature on OpenPrescribing.net At OpenPrescribing we pride ourselves on developing our tools in response to the needs of our users. OpenPrescribing is being increasingly used at national organisations and we have had many requests for an All England dashboard. This month we launched the first version of the All […]
All England Dashboard – A New Feature on OpenPrescribing.net
This week we have launched a new page on OpenPrescribing.net, the All England dashboard, that allows anyone to see the quality of prescribing at a national level. For the first time we have aggregated all the savings from all our measures in one place. For the month of August these numbers are quite staggering: £13,190,000 […]
Smoothing seasonality – your feedback needed
Recently we created antimicrobial stewardship dashboards for every Clinical Commissioning Group and General Practice in England by grouping our measures (see our blog post here). We received feedback from users that some of our measures are difficult to understand, because they exhibit a high level of seasonal variation. Antibiotics show the most seasonality amongst our […]
Could North Cumbria save money on haemorrhoid cream?
Last week, a pharmacist from NHS North Cumbria CCG got our attention by mentioning OpenPrescribing on Twitter. He had just received a letter about a product for treating haemorrhoids called Uniroid. It’s a 50/50 mixture of Cinchocaine and Hydrocortisone, and is also available as Proctosedyl (made by Sanofi), and as a generic (i.e. unbranded) product. The maker of Uniroid […]
OpenPrescribing July 2018 newsletter
[this newsletter was sent out on Thurs, Jul 26; sign up to receive the next one at www.openprescribing.net] We do the stats to make your life easy… At OpenPrescribing we hide complicated data science “under the bonnet”: we want data to be easy, to come alive and tap you on the shoulder when there’s a problem. […]