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Enhanced Prescribing Database

Population Size

Not reported
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Years

2010

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Associated BioSamples

None/not available

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Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

Northern Ireland

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Lead time

1-2 months

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Summary

This is a record of primary care prescriptions that are submitted by community pharmacies in Northern Ireland to the Business Service Organisation for payment.

Documentation

The Enhanced Prescribing Database (EPD) covers drugs prescribed in primary care and dispensed by community pharmacies. Prescriptions are submitted to the Business Services Organisation (BSO) by community pharmacies for payment. The EPD includes prescriptions issued by all types of prescribers including doctors and nurses, and all those issued and dispensed by pharmacists, dispensing doctors and appliance suppliers. Only prescriptions that are subsequently dispensed and processed by BSO for payment are included in the EPD. Patient information is not captured for all prescriptions. Only prescription forms with barcodes that were successfully read have patient Health and Care Numbers (HCN) recorded. Consequently datasets containing prescription information linked to patient HCN will not give a count of the total number of items prescribed during the time period. Rather it contains all relevant items prescribed during the time period for which the patient details were known.

Dataset type

Health and disease

Dataset sub-type

Not applicable

Keywords

Observations

Observed Node

Disambiguating Description

Measured Value

Measured Property

Observation Date

Findings

Approximately 42 million prescription items per year

42000000

Count

22 Jun 2021

Provenance

Purpose of dataset collection

Administrative

Source of data extraction

Paper-based

Collection source setting

Prescribing - Community pharmacy

Patient pathway description

This dataset deals with prescribed medications only

Image contrast

Not stated

Biological sample availability

None/not available

Structural Metadata

Details

Publishing frequency

Irregular

Version

6.0.0

Modified

08/10/2024

Citation Requirements

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The authors would like to acknowledge the help provided by the staff of the Honest Broker Service (HBS) within the Business Services Organisation Northern Ireland (BSO). The HBS is funded by the BSO and the Department of Health (DoH). The authors alone are responsible for the interpretation of the data and any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the BSO.

Coverage

Start date

01/01/2010

Time lag

1-2 months

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom, Northern Ireland

Maximum age range

150

Follow-up

Unknown

Accessibility

Language

en

Controlled vocabulary

DM+D

Format

text, csv

Data Access Request

Dataset pipeline status

Not available

Access rights

https://bso.hscni.net/directorates/digital-operations/honest-broker-service/

Time to dataset access

1-2 months

Access request cost

https://bso.hscni.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Researcher-Pack.zip

Access method category

TRE/SDE

Access service description

Remote access can now be granted via an HSCNI tenancy of the UK Secure e-Research Platform (UK SeRP), the HBS still offer the physical safe setting in Belfast for local research.

Jurisdiction

GB-NIR

Data use limitation

Research use only

Data use requirements

Project-specific restrictions

Data Controller

Business Services Organisation

Data Processor

HSC Honest Broker Service

Dataset Types: Health and disease

Collection Sources: Prescribing - Community pharmacy

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