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MFT HIVE Acute Pharmacy Dataset

Population Size

481,609

People

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Years

2022

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Associated BioSamples

None/not available

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Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

England

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Lead time

Not applicable

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Summary

This is a carefully curated pharmacy dataset for patients sourced from Manchester Foundation Trust systems. It includes prescriptions names, prescription strength and dispense data.

DOI for dataset

https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28287608

Documentation

The dataset includes pharmacy prescription of patients and detailed data on the prescription, therapeutic class, pharmaceutical class, and prescription strength. It also contains data on medication discontinuity.

Dataset type

Health and disease

Dataset population size

481609

Keywords

Observations

Observed Node

Disambiguating Description

Measured Value

Measured Property

Observation Date

Persons

Distinct number of subjects in the dataset

481609

Count

21 Nov 2025

Events

Number of prescriptions

28366545

Count

21 Nov 2025

Provenance

Purpose of dataset collection

Care

Source of data extraction

EPR

Collection source setting

Prescribing - Hospital, Prescribing - Community pharmacy, Secondary care - In-patients, Secondary care - Outpatients, Clinic

Patient pathway description

NA

Image contrast

Not stated

Biological sample availability

None/not available

Structural Metadata

Details

Publishing frequency

Irregular

Version

1.0.0

Modified

05/02/2025

Distribution release date

21/11/2025

Citation Requirements

To inform CDSU of any publications arising from this Project Dataset and ensure CDSU and the relevant data controller responsible for initially providing data are acknowledged as data sources in all resulting reports and publications. E.g. “We acknowledge the support of the Clinical Data Science Unit, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust for managing and supplying the pseudonymised data from the original data source“.

Coverage

Start date

19/08/2022

Time lag

Not applicable

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom, England, North West, Manchester

Maximum age range

150

Follow-up

Continuous

Accessibility

Language

en

Alignment with standardised data models

LOCAL, NHS DATA DICTIONARY

Controlled vocabulary

SNOMED CT, LOCAL

Format

csv, sql

Data Access Request

Dataset pipeline status

Available

Access rights

https://research.cmft.nhs.uk/innovation-at-mft/manchester-clinical-data-science-unit

Time to dataset access

Not applicable

Access method category

Varies based on project

Access service description

In progress. MFT have both on-premise and cloud solutions for accessing data. Each application will be assessed on a case-by-case basis but the default access setting is through our secure data environment analytical platform/TRE.

Data use limitation

Research use only,General research use

Data use requirements

Institution-specific restrictions,Disclosure control

Data Controller

Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Data Processor

Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dataset Types: Health and disease

Collection Sources: Prescribing - Hospital, Prescribing - Community pharmacy, Secondary care - In-patients, Secondary care - Outpatients, Clinic