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Monitor the withdrawal of Avacopan Vifor in your organisation: new measure launched on OpenPrescribing Hospitals
New measure launched to support organisations monitor the withdrawal of avacopan.
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OpenPrescribing Newsletter: Autumn 2026
Upcoming webinars, new inhaler and hospital prescribing measures, and finalised hospital medicines data through March 2026.
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New anticoagulation measure launched in OpenPrescribing Hospitals
New oral anticoagulants measure has launched in OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
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Five new low value prescribing measures launched in OpenPrescribing Hospitals
Five new low value prescribing measures have been launched.
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New AIR/MART inhaler measure launched in OpenPrescribing and OpenPrescribing Hospitals
We’ve launched a new AIR/MART inhaler measure to monitor the impact of the changes introduced in the BTS/NICE/SIGN asthma guideline.
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New prolonged-release morphine and oxycodone measure launched in OpenPrescribing Hospitals
New prolonged-release morphine and oxycodone measure launched in OpenPrescribing Hospitals
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New OpenPrescribing Hospitals measure tracks NHS rollout of faster cancer jab
Announcing the first in a series of new measures launching on OpenPrescribing Hospitals this autumn.
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Andexanet alfa: a safety audit using OpenPrescribing Hospitals
An analysis of andexanet alfa issuing in NHS trust in England using OpenPrescribing Hospitals
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Celebrating 78 years of the NHS: Vicky Speed’s perspective on how large-scale NHS GP data analysis helps deliver safer, better patient care
Clinical informatician Vicky Speed reflects on the impact of large-scale NHS GP data analysis in delivering safe and effective patient care.
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ADHD diagnosis and medication coding in England: findings from an integrated masters research project
Using OpenCodeCounts and OpenPrescribing to show that ADHD diagnosis and medication coding increased in the last 10-15 years.
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OpenPrescribing Newsletter: Spring 2026
Rebuilding OpenPrescribing, a measures advisory group, hospital trust dashboards, an FP10 viewer, and new morphine and hospital measures.
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A new way to view measures on OpenPrescribing Hospitals
Making searching, comparing and sharing OpenPrescribing Hospitals measures easier.
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Identifying the NHS Trusts within Cancer Alliances
What are Cancer Alliances? How can the NHS trusts that partner with Cancer Alliances be identified?
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Understanding NHS trust types
What types of NHS trusts are there? How can they be identified?
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New OpenPrescribing Hospitals Antibiotics measures
New antibiotic measures launched to support antimicrobial stewardship in hospitals.
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An OpenPrescribing prototype for exploring Hospital FP10s
We’ve built a prototype of a tool that looks at hospital prescriptions dispensed in the community. We describe what we’ve built, how we’ve built it, and how you can help us make it better.
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New IV paracetamol measure in OpenPrescribing Hospitals
New IV paracetamol measure launched.
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A brilliant medicines symposium, thank you for coming!
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.
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OpenPrescribing Hospitals: Your feedback is valuable to us
We know everyone says they want feedback. But we actually mean it. We record every suggestion we receive, track it, and use it to improve OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
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Measuring anticoagulant use in secondary care using OpenPrescribing Hospitals: Part 3
A look at how OpenPrescribing Hospitals can be used to look at warfarin and other vitamin K antagonist use in hospital trusts in England.
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Measuring anticoagulant use in secondary care using OpenPrescribing Hospitals: Part 2
A look at how OpenPrescribing Hospitals can be used to look at direct oral anticoagulant use in hospital trusts in England.
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Measuring anticoagulant use in secondary care using OpenPrescribing Hospitals: Part 1
A look at how OpenPrescribing Hospitals can be used to look at low molecular weight heparin anticoagulant use in hospital trusts in England.
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OpenPrescribing Newsletter: October 2025
Shareable hospital analyses, email alerts, dapagliflozin and insulin detemir measures, and OpenSAFELY’s expansion beyond COVID-19 research.
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Sharing analyses on OpenPrescribing Hospitals
It’s now possible to easily share Measures and results of custom analyses on OpenPrescribing Hospitals. Here’s how to do it.
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Discontinuation of insulin detemir - New measures for primary and secondary care
New OpenPrescribing and OpenPrescribing Hospitals measure to support work to manage the discontinuation of insulin detemir.
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New SGLT-2 inhibitor measures on OpenPrescribing and OpenPrescribing Hospitals
We have two new measures available now for SGLT-2 inhibitors.
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OpenPrescribing Hospitals email alerts
Stay updated with notifications of new OpenPrescribing Hospitals features and data releases.
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OpenPrescribing Newsletter: Autumn 2025
The Bennett Symposium and Prize, multiproduct hospital analyses, and new measures for low-value prescribing, dapagliflozin and AWaRe antibiotics.
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OpenPrescribing Hospitals: multi-product analyses
A look at how to run a multi-product analysis on OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
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Choosing a quantity type for your analysis on OpenPrescribing Hospitals
How to choose the most appropriate quantity type for custom analyses on OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
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OpenPrescribing Hospitals: numbers please!
A look at how to use the summary tables produced in custom analyses on OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
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OpenPrescribing Hospitals: analysing medicines usage at different organisational levels
How you can run custom analyses of variation in medicines issuing across NHS trusts, ICB, region and nationally.
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Co-proxamol: not gone yet. What can you do?
A summary of our research letter highlighting continuing co-proxamol use, published in the British Journal of General Practice
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Analysing lithium usage in primary and secondary care
A national medicines usage analysis for lithium in primary and secondary care in England
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Lidocaine plasters measure in OpenPrescribing Hospitals
We’ve launched a new OpenPrescribing Hospitals ‘low value prescribing’ measure for lidocaine plasters.
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OpenPrescribing Newsletter: August 2025
Special edition OpenPrescribing newsletter introducing our new tool, OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
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You asked: Can we monitor the usage of biosimilars in secondary care using OpenPrescribing Hospitals?
What are biosimilars, why are they of interest and why can we monitor usage with primary care data but not secondary care data?
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OpenPrescribing Hospitals Product Lookup
A look at the new Product Lookup feature on OpenPrescribing Hospitals
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Calculating Defined Daily Dose quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data
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?
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Classifying and measuring medicines usage with the ATC/DDD system
How the ATC can be used to classify medications and how DDs can be used to measure their usage.
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Calculating ingredient quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data
What is ingredient quantity, how can it be calculated from the quantity reported in the Secondary Care Medicines Data, and why is it useful?
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OpenPrescribing Hospitals Meets the Public
Brian MacKenna demonstrated OpenPrescribing Hospitals at the 2025 Clinical Pharmacy Congress last month. Here’s his thoughts on how it went.
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Calculating unit dose quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data
What are unit doses, how can they be calculated from the quantity reported in the Secondary Care Medicines Data, and why are they useful?
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Measuring quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data
A look at how quantity is measured in the Secondary Care Medicines Data
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Custom analyses on OpenPrescribing Hospitals
The new custom analysis feature on OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
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Low value medicines in OpenPrescribing Hospitals
How we can use OpenPrescribing Hospitals measures to look at use of low value medicines in hospitals.
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Highlighting variation in hospitals medicines usage
How we highlight variation in hospital medicines usage in OpenPrescribing Hospitals Measures.
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Introducing OpenPrescribing Hospitals measures
An introduction to a new measures tool in OpenPrescribing Hospital.
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Improvements to how the Secondary Care Medicines Data is published
The way the Secondary Care Medicines Data is published has recently changed. This is why this is good news for OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
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Getting more from the Secondary Care Medicines Data using the dictionary of medicines and devices
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.
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Show me the data! What does the Secondary Care Medicines Data look like?
A first look at the data within the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset.
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OpenPrescribing Hospitals - now live, and open for your feedback
We’ve made OpenPrescribing Hospitals platform to all with our first feature. Read more to see how you can access it.
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More about hospital stock control data
A deeper dive into what stock control data is and how it impacts the way the SCMD is published
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Understanding the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset
A brief description of the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset, the primary dataset used in OpenPrescribing Hospitals
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OpenPrescribing Hospitals Submission history: showing the gaps in hospital medicines data
An explanation of the Submission History feature on OpenPrescribing Hospitals
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Organising Organisations: Data consistency
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
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Organising Organisations: Data completeness
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
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Organising Organisations: Hospital Trusts in OpenPrescribing Hospitals
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
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We're going to build OpenPrescribing for hospitals: here's why
We’re going to build OpenPrescribing for hospitals using openly available secondary care medicines data. Here we explain why and what you can expect.
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Exciting new developments with hospital medicines data
We briefly summarise all the recent big and exciting developments in hospital medicines data.