Information Services

Dashboards and specifications

The 'One Drug Database' project has been delayed by one month

We’re now aiming to go live in February 2020 (for December 2019 data).

Due to the delay, we’ve been able to make other improvements to how we provide prescribing information.

You can read more about the improvements and the changes that we’ll be making, and how this affects our systems and reports.

You can also view a test file containing March 2019 data (ZIP: 144MB) for mapping purposes. (The ZIP file contains one Excel file which is 4.7GB).

There are a number of dashboards which are available to all users of ePACT2.

Dashboard Specification

The dashboard specifications will help users understand how each dashboard and each set of analysis was designed. It will take into account:

the methodology used
any assumptions made during the process

Our aim is to have a specification available for each dashboard.

Medicines Optimisation Polypharmacy Prescribing Comparators (PDF: 548KB)

Potential generic savings (Word: 383KB)

Medication Safety Indicators Specification (PDF: 999KB)

Respiratory Comparator Descriptions and Specification (PDF:557KB)

Medicines Optimisation (PDF: 621KB)

Mental Health Prescribing Comparators (PDF: 608KB)

Diabetes prescribing comparators specification (PDF: 407KB)

As additional dashboards are developed, further specifications will be added.

Dashboards

Various dashboards are available:

Diabetes dashboard

Antimicrobial stewardship

A dashboard supporting the monitoring of CCG performance in delivering the 'antibiotic quality premium'

Electronic prescription service (EPS) utilisation dashboard

An ePACT2 dashboard to support local interventions to drive the growth of EPS use

Evidence-based interventions

To provide CCG's and STP's information on baseline activity figures and estimated activity reduction goals

Items which should not be routinely prescribed in primary care

Medication safety

A set of prescribing indicators developed to reduce medication error and promote safer use of medicines

Medicines optimisation dashboard

A dashboard which brings together a range of data relating to variation in medicines use and prescribing

Medicines optimisation - generic prescribing

Helps prescribers and commissioners to deliver better care value with improved access to relevant data

Medicines optimisation - polypharmacy

Comparators to help CCGs and GP practices understand the variation in prescribing of multiple medicines

Mental health prescribing comparators

Metrics that allow users to identify groups of patients who may need a prescribing review or monitoring.

Over the counter items which should not be routinely prescribed in primary care

Data in the use of medicines prescribed for conditions where a patient could seek relief from a local pharmacy

Premium-priced generics

To assist in the monitoring of generics prescribed stipulated with a supplier/manufacturer

Respiratory dashboard

A dashboard to highlight variation in prescribing across CCG's in England

Safer management of controlled drugs

To support CD Accountable Officers a number of metrics have been created to view variation of CD prescribing

Volume and cost dashboard

Useful links

Resources

Data release calendar

We provide NHS stakeholders with consistent prescribing volume, trend and cost analyses