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Background In December 2011, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) set out plans to support the development, adoption and spread of innovation in the NHS. It published a report titled 'Innovation, Health and Wealth, accelerating adoption…

Key findings The comparison of expected uptake to the actual volume of medicines used in the NHS in England is available in the national level medicine groupings interactive dashboard. The expected uptake is shown where it has been possible to…

Introduction This section explains the use of Assumed Daily Doses (ADDs) for measuring medicine utilisation in the Innovation Scorecard. It discusses why ADDs are used, how they are used in calculations, and the principles applied to assign ADDs.…

Introduction This section of the report aims to provide users with an evidence-based assessment of the quality of the publication outputs. The quality of the outputs is assessed based on the 9 European Statistical System (ESS) quality dimensions…

Background Innovation scorecard overview The Innovation Scorecard is an action taken from the Department of Health and Social Care's (DHSC) paper titled "Innovation Health and Wealth: Accelerating Adoption and Diffusion in the NHS" (IHW)…

Presentation of the data As part of our commitment to open data, the NHSBSA publishes the underlying data of the Innovation Scorecard publication in a series of comma-separated variable (csv) files. The data has been released in csv files as these…

Published 6 June 2024. Publication Prescription Cost Analysis England 2023/24 - statistical summary narrative (HTML) Summary Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) provides details of the costs and volumes of all prescriptions dispensed in the…

Correction notice - SNOMED codes in the national summary tables were incorrectly formatted. Read our correction notices page for more details. Published 8 June 2023 This page was last reviewed and updated 27 July 2023. Summary Prescription…

Published 9 June 2022. Summary Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) provides details of the costs and volumes of all prescriptions dispensed in the community in England. We consulted on the content and methodology used in this publication during…

Published 10 June 2021. Summary Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) provides details of the number of items and the Net Ingredient Cost (NIC) of all prescriptions dispensed in the community in England. We consulted on the content and methodology…