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OpenPrescribing Hospitals Meets the Public
Brian MacKenna demonstrated OpenPrescribing Hospitals at the 2025 Clinical Pharmacy Congress last month. Here’s his thoughts on how it went.
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Calculating unit dose quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data
What are unit doses, how can they be calculated from the quantity reported in the Secondary Care Medicines Data, and why are they useful?
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Measuring quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data
A look at how quantity is measured in the Secondary Care Medicines Data
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Custom analyses on OpenPrescribing Hospitals
The new custom analysis feature on OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
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Low value medicines in OpenPrescribing Hospitals
How we can use OpenPrescribing Hospitals measures to look at use of low value medicines in hospitals.
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Highlighting variation in hospitals medicines usage
How we highlight variation in hospital medicines usage in OpenPrescribing Hospitals Measures.
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Introducing OpenPrescribing Hospitals measures
An introduction to a new measures tool in OpenPrescribing Hospital.
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Improvements to how the Secondary Care Medicines Data is published
The way the Secondary Care Medicines Data is published has recently changed. This is why this is good news for OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
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Getting more from the Secondary Care Medicines Data using the dictionary of medicines and devices
How we can make it easier to compare issuing quantities of different products within the Secondary Care Medicines Data by using the dictionary of medicines and devices to find more detailed product information.
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Show me the data! What does the Secondary Care Medicines Data look like?
A first look at the data within the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset.
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OpenPrescribing Hospitals - now live, and open for your feedback
We’ve made OpenPrescribing Hospitals platform to all with our first feature. Read more to see how you can access it.
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More about hospital stock control data
A deeper dive into what stock control data is and how it impacts the way the SCMD is published
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Understanding the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset
A brief description of the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset, the primary dataset used in OpenPrescribing Hospitals
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OpenPrescribing Hospitals Submission history: showing the gaps in hospital medicines data
An explanation of the Submission History feature on OpenPrescribing Hospitals
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Organising Organisations: Data consistency
The third blog in the series: Organising Organisations. Here, we describe how consistent the data submitted by NHS Trusts to the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset is
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Organising Organisations: Data completeness
The second blog in the series: Organising Organisations. Here, we describe how complete the data submitted by NHS Trusts to the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset is
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Organising Organisations: Hospital Trusts in OpenPrescribing Hospitals
The first blog in the series: Organising Organisations. Here, we describe which NHS Trusts are included in the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset and how they can be identified
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We're going to build OpenPrescribing for hospitals: here's why
We’re going to build OpenPrescribing for hospitals using openly available secondary care medicines data. Here we explain why and what you can expect.
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Exciting new developments with hospital medicines data
We briefly summarise all the recent big and exciting developments in hospital medicines data.