What is ingredient quantity, how can it be calculated from the quantity reported in the Secondary Care Medicines Data, and why is it useful?
Brian MacKenna demonstrated OpenPrescribing Hospitals at the 2025 Clinical Pharmacy Congress last month. Here’s his thoughts on how it went.
What are unit doses, how can they be calculated from the quantity reported in the Secondary Care Medicines Data, and why are they useful?
A look at how quantity is measured in the Secondary Care Medicines Data
The new custom analysis feature on OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
How we can use OpenPrescribing Hospitals measures to look at use of low value medicines in hospitals.
How we highlight variation in hospital medicines usage in OpenPrescribing Hospitals Measures.
An introduction to a new measures tool in OpenPrescribing Hospital.
The way the Secondary Care Medicines Data is published has recently changed. This is why this is good news for OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
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.
A first look at the data within the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset.
We’ve made OpenPrescribing Hospitals platform to all with our first feature. Read more to see how you can access it.
A deeper dive into what stock control data is and how it impacts the way the SCMD is published
A brief description of the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset, the primary dataset used in OpenPrescribing Hospitals
An explanation of the Submission History feature on OpenPrescribing Hospitals
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
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
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
We’re going to build OpenPrescribing for hospitals using openly available secondary care medicines data. Here we explain why and what you can expect.
We briefly summarise all the recent big and exciting developments in hospital medicines data.
