We’ve made OpenPrescribing Hospitals platform to all with our first feature. Read more to see how you can access it.| www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
Special edition OpenPrescribing newsletter introducing our new tool, OpenPrescribing Hospitals.| Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
We’re launching the Bennett Prize in OpenPrescribing to celebrate the best user-led projects using OpenPrescribing. Enter by sharing your work online and sending us the link — all kinds of entries welcome, from prescribing insights to data science deep dives.| www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
What are biosimilars, why are they of interest and why can we monitor usage with primary care data but not secondary care data?| Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
In this guest blog, Dr Christianne Micallef explains how she uses OpenPrescribing in her role as an antimicrobial stewardship lead pharmacist.| www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
A look at the new Product Lookup feature on OpenPrescribing Hospitals| Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
What is a Defined Daily Dose, how can they calculated from the quantity reported in the Secondary Care Medicines Data, and why are they useful?| Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
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 detailed product information.| www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
How the ATC can be used to classify medications and how DDs can be used to measure their usage.| Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
What is ingredient quantity, how can it be calculated from the quantity reported in the Secondary Care Medicines Data, and why is it useful?| www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
In 2019, we pitched a national tool to track local formularies. Now the NHS is doing just that! We’re sharing our plans and advice to help it succeed.| Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
What are unit doses, how can they be calculated from the quantity reported in the Secondary Care Medicines Data, and why are they useful?| Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
A look at how quantity is measured in the Secondary Care Medicines Data| www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
Over the past year we have been increasingly using NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d). This blog post sets out to describe dm+d for the benefit of the wider prescribing analytics community and others. What is the NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d)? dm+d is the standard dictionary for the medicines and devices used across the NHS. It contains standardised codes, descriptions, and metadata (such as price and pack size) for every entry. At last count it contained over 150...| www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
A deeper dive into what stock control data is and how it impacts the way the SCMD is published| www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
A brief description of the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset, the primary dataset used in OpenPrescribing Hospitals| www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
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| www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
We’re going to build OpenPrescribing for hospitals using openly available secondary care medicines data. Here we explain why and what you can expect.| www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
FAQs| openprescribing.net
For clarity, practice graphs and maps only show standard GP practices, and exclude non-standard settings like prisons, out-of-hours services, etc.| openprescribing.net
We’ve been busy creating new measures for OpenPrescribing.net, and reviewing ones which aren’t needed any more.| www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
We’ve been busy doing housekeeping on OpenPrescribing.net measures. Here’s a summary of the main changes.| www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
In this blog we describe how to use and access the NHS England Medicines Optimisation Oppurtunitites dashboard on OpenPrescribing| www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
Here we introduce the Bennett Institute’s Clinical Informatics team, explaining what they do and how their experience in NHS clinical practice helps them do this.| www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
