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Calculating ingredient quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data

Calculating ingredient quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data

What is ingredient quantity, how can it be calculated from the quantity reported in the Secondary Care Medicines Data, and why is it useful?

By Louis Fisher, Chris Wood, Vicky Speed
OpenPrescribing Hospitals Meets the Public

OpenPrescribing Hospitals Meets the Public

Brian MacKenna demonstrated OpenPrescribing Hospitals at the 2025 Clinical Pharmacy Congress last month. Here’s his thoughts on how it went.

By Brian MacKenna
Calculating unit dose quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data

Calculating unit dose quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data

What are unit doses, how can they be calculated from the quantity reported in the Secondary Care Medicines Data, and why are they useful?

By Louis Fisher, Chris Wood, Andrew Brown

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Calculating ingredient quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data

Calculating ingredient quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data

What is ingredient quantity, how can it be calculated from the quantity reported in the Secondary Care Medicines Data, and why is it useful?

By Louis Fisher, Chris Wood, Vicky Speed
OpenPrescribing Hospitals Meets the Public

OpenPrescribing Hospitals Meets the Public

Brian MacKenna demonstrated OpenPrescribing Hospitals at the 2025 Clinical Pharmacy Congress last month. Here’s his thoughts on how it went.

By Brian MacKenna
Calculating unit dose quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data

Calculating unit dose quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data

What are unit doses, how can they be calculated from the quantity reported in the Secondary Care Medicines Data, and why are they useful?

By Louis Fisher, Chris Wood, Andrew Brown
Measuring quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data

Measuring quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data

A look at how quantity is measured in the Secondary Care Medicines Data

By Louis Fisher, Chris Wood
Custom analyses on OpenPrescribing Hospitals

Custom analyses on OpenPrescribing Hospitals

The new custom analysis feature on OpenPrescribing Hospitals.

By Louis Fisher, Brian MacKenna
Low value medicines in OpenPrescribing Hospitals

Low value medicines in OpenPrescribing Hospitals

How we can use OpenPrescribing Hospitals measures to look at use of low value medicines in hospitals.

By Chris Wood, Louis Fisher, Steve Black, Brian MacKenna
Highlighting variation in hospitals medicines usage

Highlighting variation in hospitals medicines usage

How we highlight variation in hospital medicines usage in OpenPrescribing Hospitals Measures.

By Chris Wood, Louis Fisher, Steve Black, Brian MacKenna
Introducing OpenPrescribing Hospitals measures

Introducing OpenPrescribing Hospitals measures

An introduction to a new measures tool in OpenPrescribing Hospital.

By Chris Wood, Louis Fisher, Steve Black, Brian MacKenna
Improvements to how the Secondary Care Medicines Data is published

Improvements to how the Secondary Care Medicines Data is published

The way the Secondary Care Medicines Data is published has recently changed. This is why this is good news for OpenPrescribing Hospitals.

By Louis Fisher, Steve Black, Brian MacKenna
Getting more from the Secondary Care Medicines Data using the dictionary of medicines and devices

Getting more from the Secondary Care Medicines Data using the dictionary of medicines and devices

How we can make it easier to compare issuing quantities of different products within the Secondary Care Medicines Data by using the dictionary of medicines and devices to find more …

By Louis Fisher, Chris Wood, Steve Black, Brian MacKenna
Show me the data! What does the Secondary Care Medicines Data look like?

Show me the data! What does the Secondary Care Medicines Data look like?

A first look at the data within the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset.

By Louis Fisher, Steve Black, Brian MacKenna, Chris Wood
OpenPrescribing Hospitals - now live, and open for your feedback
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OpenPrescribing Hospitals - now live, and open for your feedback

We’ve made OpenPrescribing Hospitals platform to all with our first feature. Read more to see how you can access it.

By Giles Turnbull, Louis Fisher, Brian MacKenna
More about hospital stock control data

More about hospital stock control data

A deeper dive into what stock control data is and how it impacts the way the SCMD is published

By Louis Fisher, Steve Black, Brian MacKenna, Vicky Speed
Understanding the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset

Understanding the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset

A brief description of the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset, the primary dataset used in OpenPrescribing Hospitals

By Louis Fisher, Steve Black, Vicky Speed
OpenPrescribing Hospitals Submission history: showing the gaps in hospital medicines data
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OpenPrescribing Hospitals Submission history: showing the gaps in hospital medicines data

An explanation of the Submission History feature on OpenPrescribing Hospitals

By Louis Fisher, Steve Black, Vicky Speed, Brian MacKenna, Chris Wood
Organising Organisations: Data consistency
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Organising Organisations: Data consistency

The third blog in the series: Organising Organisations. Here, we describe how consistent the data submitted by NHS Trusts to the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset is

By Louis Fisher, Steve Black, Vicky Speed, Brian MacKenna
Organising Organisations: Data completeness
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Organising Organisations: Data completeness

The second blog in the series: Organising Organisations. Here, we describe how complete the data submitted by NHS Trusts to the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset is

By Louis Fisher, Steve Black, Vicky Speed, Brian MacKenna
Organising Organisations: Hospital Trusts in OpenPrescribing Hospitals
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Organising Organisations: Hospital Trusts in OpenPrescribing Hospitals

The first blog in the series: Organising Organisations. Here, we describe which NHS Trusts are included in the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset and how they can be identified

By Louis Fisher, Steve Black, Vicky Speed, Brian MacKenna
We're going to build OpenPrescribing for hospitals: here's why
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We're going to build OpenPrescribing for hospitals: here's why

We’re going to build OpenPrescribing for hospitals using openly available secondary care medicines data. Here we explain why and what you can expect.

By Vicky Speed, Steve Black, Louis Fisher
Exciting new developments with hospital medicines data
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Exciting new developments with hospital medicines data

We briefly summarise all the recent big and exciting developments in hospital medicines data.

By Brian MacKenna, Vicky Speed