We’re delighted to announce the inaugural Bennett Prize in OpenPrescribing - a celebration of the incredible, inventive, and impactful ways our users are applying OpenPrescribing.
OpenPrescribing has over 20,000 unique users each month, using the tools on our site to help them identify ways to improve prescribing and inform decision-making. As well as primary care data, we have recently added OpenPrescribing Hospitals, allowing users to do similar analyses with secondary care medicines data.
We want to see how you are using the platform, and the tools, and we want to share your work across our huge user community. The prize is open to everyone, whether you’re a medicines optimisation lead, a clinical pharmacist, a data scientist, a GP, a researcher, a student, or simply someone curious about NHS prescribing data… this prize is for you!
What is the Bennett Prize?
The Bennett Prize in OpenPrescribing is a competition to showcase the best user-led projects using OpenPrescribing.
Your winning entry will receive the spectacular Bennett Prize Trophy at our awards ceremony, and you will have the opportunity to present your work at this year’s Bennett Institute Medicines Symposium (December 10-11, registration opening soon). We will also feature and promote your work on the OpenPrescribing blog, the Bennett Institute website, and our newsletter.
Why we are doing this?
OpenPrescribing is here to make prescribing data accessible, useful, and actionable. We’re continually amazed by how people use it in the real world, and the stories our users tell us. This prize is about celebrating the creativity of our users, and sharing it with others.
How to enter
Entering is simple:
- Write a piece explaining what you did using OpenPrescribing, and post it online.
- It can be on a LinkedIn post, a personal blog, a university website, or any social media platform - as long as it has a publicly accessible URL.
- Your piece can be as long or as short as you like.
- Send us the URL to your post to us via the form here.
- Deadline for submission is the 10th November 2025.
Who can enter?
Literally anyone.
We know OpenPrescribing is used by a huge and diverse range of people. If you are one of them, and you’ve done something interesting with OpenPrescribing, please enter!
That includes:
- Pharmacists and medicines optimisation teams
- GPs and other primary care clinicians
- Secondary care clinicians
- ICB staff and NHS analysts
- Academics
- Students
- Journalists, policy professionals, and international users
- Data scientists and developers
What kind of entries are we looking for?
We’re open to everything - big or small, academic or applied, technical or clinical.
For example, you might submit:
- A change you made to prescribing in your organisation using OpenPrescribing insights
- An unusual pattern or outlier you identified in prescribing data
- An academic paper that used OpenPrescribing tools or datasets
- Or even just a blog post or thread highlighting something quirky or useful you discovered
We’re especially keen to highlight examples that:
- Improve care and safety
- Use data in novel or efficient ways
- Demonstrate open science or transparent practice
- Or simply share something surprising, delightful, or important
If you’re looking for inspiration feel free to browse our own blogs at OpenPrescibing and OpenPrescribing for Hospitals, where we regularly share the interesting things we’ve found in the data.
But really, this is about you: your ideas, your work, and your voice. So please tell us what you’ve done with any of our OpenPrescribing tools, by using the form above. We look forward to reading them!