OpenPrescribing Hospitals Meets the Public

Last month we hit an exciting milestone for OpenPrescribing Hospitals, our first public outing at the always-excellent Clinical Pharmacy Congress.

The Clinical Pharmacy Congress was the perfect place to share the platform more widely. It was:

• Fun (according to me)
• Energetic (according to Sarah Jones & Ola Howell)
• And powerful – because this can genuinely change how medicines are used across the NHS.

We had brilliant conversations with pharmacy professionals about how they might use OpenPrescribing Hospitals to explore medicines data, improve care, and ask new questions.

For those who’ve followed OpenPrescribing Hospitals, you’ll know this isn’t a brand-new project. In fact, we’ve written 21 blog posts along the way, sharing our progress and inviting feedback as we built out the platform. But this was the first time we presented it face-to-face, outside our immediate network, and we’re thrilled to say: all the features we planned for our “minimum viable project” are now live.

What’s Live Now?

The platform is live, open, and ready to explore. You can now:

• See whether hospitals have submitted data each month
• Compare medicines use across hospitals to identify variation and improve care
• Review our pre-specified measures of prescribing quality, safety and effectiveness

We’re not finished. OpenPrescribing Hospitals will continue to grow, and we want to shape it around the people who use it.

We’d love to hear from you:

• How are you using it in your work?
• What’s helpful?
• What’s missing?
• What would you like to see next?

Please share it with your colleagues and networks. This is a tool for everyone, and the more people who use it, the better it can become!

We’re excited to see how you use it and to keep building it together.