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Opioid Prescribing Comparators dashboard
Opioid prescribing comparators have been developed as part of the work started in response to the Public Health England (PHE) prescribed medicines review.
This dashboard is still a work in progress so we’re working to add more content to help NHS…
ePACT2 news
Articles which will keep customers informed of any updates and changes to the system that they need to be aware of.
BNF code changes - January 2024
The annual version changes relating to the BNF Structure have been implemented with January…
Vaccines centrally procured for a practice through Public Health England
Please remember that where vaccines have been centrally procured for your practice through Public Health England, you should not make a claim to NHS Prescription Services on form FP34D/PD Appendix or FP10 under personal administration arrangements…
Premium-priced generics
There’s an increasing volume of computerised prescriptions each month where the prescriber has prescribed a generic Drug Tariff Part VIIIA product but also with the name of the branded product or the supplier/ manufacturer added in brackets.
In…
Data download, NHSBSA Open Data Portal and One Drug Database (ODD) update 19 February 2020
The NHS currently releases detailed information on prescribing of medications via two datasets, both of which are sourced from NHSBSA data:
•Detailed Prescribing Information (DPI), released by NHS Business Services Authority via the ISP portal.
•…
Volume and cost of prescribing charts
These charts are updated each month and show up to five years' data.
They show the:
number and cost of items
number of items declared by pharmacy contractors
Number of items declared by pharmacy contractors in England
At the end of each…
Medicines optimisation: key therapeutic topics consultation for the 2017 update
As part of the NICE Medicines and Prescribing Programme's work to support the Department of Health and NHS England with Medicines Optimisation, they are in the process of updating the Medicines optimisation: key therapeutic topics document. The…
Programme budget categories (PBC)
Access to PBC for:
registered users is through ePACT2
public users is through Catalyst
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has set up a national programme budget project to develop a primary source of information.
This can be…
Medicines optimisation - polypharmacy
The polypharmacy prescribing comparators will help Sub Integrated Care Board Locations (SICBLs) and GP practices understand the variation in prescribing of multiple medicines. They'll also help to identify patients who are more likely to be exposed…
Prescribing monitoring document (PMD)
Access to PMD for:
registered users is through ePACT2
public users is through Catalyst - for national PMD report
PMD provides monthly financial information about prescribing costs against budgets. This allows the drugs element of unified…