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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…

Respiratory prescribing accounts for a significant amount of prescribing spend in the NHS. It is known that a large proportion of hospital admissions and A&E attendances are as a result of asthma or COPD exacerbations. In many cases, these…

Combatting antimicrobial resistance, the UK's second five-year national action plan continues to promote optimal use of antimicrobials in humans to ensure safe and effective patient care by strengthening antimicrobial stewardship programmes. There…

Latest version NICE Technology Appraisals in the NHS in England (Innovation Scorecard) - to December 2024 Previous versions NICE Technology Appraisals in the NHS in England (Innovation Scorecard) - to June 2024 NICE Technology Appraisals in…

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)…