Prescriptions in the Community
Data and Resources
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Aggregated Data by Health Board - January 2025CSV
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Data by Prescriber Location - January 2025CSV
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Data by Prescriber Location - December 2024CSV
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Data by Dispenser Location - January 2025CSV
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Additional Info
Field | Value |
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Source | Prescribing Information System (PIS) Database |
Author | PHS Prescribing team |
Maintainer | PHS Open Data team |
Last Updated | April 22, 2025, 15:03 (BST) |
Created | January 17, 2018, 14:34 (GMT) |
Contact Address | PHS Prescribing Team, Public Health Scotland, Gyle Square, 1 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, EH12 9EB |
Subject | NHS Prescriptions |
Frequency | Monthly |
Time frame of data and timeliness | 2-3 months in arrears |
Coverage | General practices, community pharmacies, dental clinics and hospitals within Scotland. |
Completeness | The Prescribing Information System holds 100% of NHS Scotland prescriptions dispensed within the community and claimed for payment by a pharmacy contractor (i.e. pharmacy or dispensing doctor). It does not include data on prescriptions dispensed but not claimed (likely to be very small) or prescriptions prescribed but not submitted for dispensing by a patient (research has estimated the latter to account for around 6% of all issued prescriptions). It is not possible to determine from payment data how much of the medicine dispensed to patients is actually taken in accordance with dosage instructions. The data does not cover private prescriptions. All practices in Scotland are included in this data where (in the relevant month) a prescription has been dispensed and claimed for payment by a dispensing contractor. |
Accuracy | The data are sourced from a payment system and routine monthly checks are carried out by Practitioner Services on a random sample of approximately 5% of prescription payments. These check all data captured for payment and the accuracy of the payment calculation and have a target accuracy of 98% which is routinely met. Data that is captured but is not mandatory for payment purposes can be of lower quality; this includes the prescriber code linking a prescription back to the individual prescriber (e.g. GP) and their organisation (e.g. practice or NHS Board). Routine monitoring of unallocated prescriptions is carried out and correct codes are applied. This ensures that unallocated prescriptions account for fewer than 2% of all prescriptions. For remaining unallocated prescriptions, the prescribing NHS Board is assumed to be the same as the dispensing NHS Board. There is a data quality issue with the Quantity measure and the issue surrounds the difference in quantity reporting between Scottish and English dispensing. |
Continuity of data | The definition of the main measures such as gross ingredient cost and number of items are unchanged over the period data has been available within PIS. Drug products are first licensed as proprietary medicines but generic versions often appear once the original patent expires. This can affect the price and uptake of these drugs. The Scottish Government sets the reimbursement price of generic drug products via the Scottish Drug Tariff which is updated and issued quarterly. NDCVP led to a new method of recording quantities for a small proportion of products in PIS, primarily appliances. The Quantities Mapping file (https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/our-areas-of-work/acute-and-emergency-services/prescribing-data/open-data/prescriptions-in-the-community/) was developed in order to standardise the quantities field in the Prescriptions in the Community Open Data from May 2023 onwards. |
Concepts and definitions | https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/monthly-prescribing-activity-data/ |
Disclosure | No disclosure controls are applied. Schedule 2 and 3 controlled drugs are excluded from the 'Data by Dispenser Location' file. |
Revision statement | Data is sourced from monthly pharmacy payments data on an ongoing basis therefore once published there is no routine requirement to revise historical data. |
Official statistics designation | Official Statistics in Development |
Relevance and key uses of the statistics | https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/our-areas-of-work/acute-and-emergency-services/prescribing-data/open-data/prescriptions-in-the-community/ |
Format | csv |
Language | English |
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