OpenPrescribing

05/02/2018

We’ve been thinking in the DataLab about doing stories, using our prescribing data, to go with landmark clinical trials and systematic reviews. Here’s an example.

https://ebmdatalab.net/omega-3-isnt-very-effective-using-prescribing-data-to-explore-the-impact-of-trials-reviews-and-guidelines/

29/01/2018

Get in touch!

Want to join the EBM DataLab team? We are looking for a lovely coder! Please email [email protected] for more info.

24/01/2018

Recognise anyone? Our Pharmaceutical Adviser Richard Croker uses OpenPrescribing tools to demonstrate prescribing back in 2015! We've added lots of new handy tools since then. Head to www.openprescribing.net to find out more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62cYVhPLbBI

Prescribing is the process whereby healthcare professionals, such as doctors and pharmacists, advise and authorise the use of a medicine or a treatment for a...

08/01/2018

Have you seen our new interactive tool? Explore changes in the Drug Tariff back to 2010!

Read more from our Pharmaceutical Adviser, Richard Croker here: https://ebmdatalab.net/new-openprescribing-tool-drug-tariff-viewer-with-added-price-concessions-back-to-2010/

08/01/2018

Members of the University have been recognised in the New Year's Honours list for 2018.

03/01/2018

January 3, 2018 by Emma-Jane Greig Trends and variation in gluten-free food prescribing Many people I’ve spoken to aren’t aware that gluten-free foods can be prescribed, but it happens quite extensively in an effort to help patients with coeliac disease adhere to a gluten-free diet. Below is a c...

28/12/2017

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In our second full year of existence we’ve produced even more exciting outputs and continued to grow. You can see the team on our website: Emma-Jane has been our project manager since the Spring; we have two new part-time coders working for us; and researchers Alex, Nick, Daniel and Karolina all s...

22/12/2017

PrescQipp shared news of our handy Drug Tariff tracker with their users:

22/12/2017

New interactive OpenPrescribing tool: Explore Changes in the Drug Tariff (and out of stock medicines) back to 2010!

Ask a GP where they find out the cost of the drug, and they’ll say either their computer system or the BNF. For pharmacists, it’s usually the Drug Tariff (or the Tariff). And that’s usually where the most accurate price will be found.

Therefore, in order to help users, we’ve created a new tool: the Drug Tariff trends viewer, available at www.openprescribing.net/tariff or from the trends menu from the front page. This tool allows you to select a drug and see how its price and tariff category has changed since April 2010.

21/12/2017

We’ve updated OpenPrescribing with October’s data. Head over to www.openprescribing.net to see more.

Every month, the NHS in England publishes anonymised data about the drugs prescribed by GPs. But the raw data files are large and unwieldy, with more than 700 million rows. We're making it easier for GPs, managers and everyone to explore - supporting safer, more efficient prescribing.