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Detailed Prescribing Information is being decommissioned - update
The Detailed Prescribing Information (DPI) currently available in Information Services Portal (ISP) is being decommissioned.
The dataset January 2021 published in March 2021 was to be the final dataset to be published via ISP with future data…
Medicines Delivery Service - user story
Background and aim
As part of the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in April 2020 NHS England (NHSE) commissioned a prescriptions delivery service from community pharmacies to people classed as ‘shielded patients’ who were required to…
Pharmacy First - Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework
This is a message on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care
On Monday 31 March 2025, the details of the contractual settlement for 2025/26 were announced, which included changes to Pharmacy First; one of the changes announced was a…
Dispensing data
These reports contain data relating to the total NHS prescriptions dispensed and submitted to NHS Prescription Services by each dispenser type.
Contact us if you have any queries.
Detailed Prescribing Information - has been decommissioned
Detailed Prescribing Information (DPI), available through the Information Services Portal, has now been decommissioned.
The prescribing data will now only be available as the English Prescribing Dataset (EPD) available through our Open Data Portal…
Drug Tariff Part VIC – NHS Community Pharmacy Hypertension Case-Finding Advanced Service
This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.
Contractors should note from 1 September 2023 claims for payment for the NHS Community Pharmacy Hypertension Case-Finding Advanced Service should be submitted via an IT…
Part VIA Transitional Payments (England only) March 2024
From 1 March 2024, the monthly Flat Fee Payment paid to pharmacy contractors will be set at zero.
In accordance with the standard payment schedules, this change will be reflected in payments made from June 2024.
This is reflected in the Part VIA…
ePACT2: Missing Scottish dispensing data
Prescription data for items prescribed in England and dispensed in Scotland from June 2023 to June 2024 is not held in ePACT2. From July onwards the data feed into ePACT2 should have been restored.
The missing Scottish dispensing data can be found…
Case study
Enhanced data quality: Building foundations with our data profiling capability and operating model
Effective data management is critical to achieving our ambitions of becoming a data driven organisation and a key part of data management is data…
BNF Code Changes- January 2024
The annual version changes relating to the BNF Structure have been implemented with January 2024 dispensing data.
The latest file shows the BNF presentation code as of December 2023 data against the BNF presentation code as of January 2024 data. …