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Submission History

The charts below visualise the data submission history for NHS Trusts within the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset (SCMD). It offers a quick overview of submission patterns, helping to identify gaps and NHS Trust changes over time.

How do I interpret these charts?

Each bar represents a monthly submission:

  • Blue bars indicate a successful submission, with the height showing the number of unique products submitted that month
  • Red bars indicate a missing submission

Where an NHS Trust has any predecessors, the number of unique products submitted is the number of unique products submitted by the existing NHS Trust and its predecessors.

The chart shows data from April 2019 to September 2024.

You can sort the NHS Trusts in different ways:

  • Submission status in latest month - Shows NHS Trusts missing the most recent submission first.
  • Number of months with no data submission - Shows NHS Trusts with the most months with no submissions first.
  • Variation in the number of unique products issued - Orders by the extent to which the number of unique products an NHS Trust submits each month varies from the median number of unique products submitted for that NHS Trust across all months. Months with no submissions are excluded from this calculation.
  • Alphabetically - Orders NHS Trusts by name.

The data within the SCMD is initially made available as provisional data, which is subject to change before being finalised. Submission history for provisional data is shaded. See the FAQs for more details.