Show me the data! What does the SCMD look like?
A first look at the data within the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset.
By Louis Fisher, Steve Black, Brian MacKenna, Chris Wood
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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
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
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Show me the data! What does the SCMD 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
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
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
A brief description of the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset, the primary dataset used in OpenPrescribing Hospitals
By Louis Fisher, Steve Black, Vicky Speed
data-exploration
data-quality
organisations
features
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
data-exploration
data-quality
organisations
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
data-exploration
data-quality
organisations
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
data-exploration
data-quality
organisations
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
data-exploration
data-quality
organisations
features
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
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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