A celebration of two brilliant days bringing together 200 people from across the medicines data community, featuring keynotes, the first Bennett Prize, and OpenPrescribing’s 10th birthday.
A new tool for exploring clinical code usage
This blog, written as part of the HDRUK 2025 Health Data Science Internship Programme, explores how Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) and psychological therapies for anxiety disorders and depression are captured in primary care data in England.
Our tech team has been making improvements to OpenCodelists! What’s new?
In this blog we explain what codelists are, how they are constructed and review existing literature on construction processes.
An introduction to what clinical codes are, why they are used and the terminology systems used within OpenSAFELY work.
Bennett Institute resident pharmacist Brian MacKenna sets out some brief information on how we currently build medicines codelists on OpenSAFELY.
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.
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 150,000 packs of medicines and devices.
OpenPrescribing takes open datasets from NHS Digital and NHS Business Services Authority, and makes it easy for people to explore the prescribing dataset. We also use this dataset in our research, and offer bespoke data extracts from the prescribing dataset for researchers, clinicians and NHS staff (get in touch!). In this series of blog posts we’ll explain key concepts and share our knowledge of the prescribing dataset. In the first blog, we take a look at BNF codes.
