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Please note that the release of May data has been delayed to 10 October. The data for June is also delayed and will be released at a later date to be confirmed. \r\n\r\nThis is because NHS Scotland has introduced a new dispensing contractor payment process and system, and extra time is required to manage the changeover. The new system provides improved automation and the flexibility to adapt to a paperless prescribing future. It also supplies drug reference information in NHS dictionary of medicines and devices (dm+d) format, which will help ensure interoperability with other medicine datasets and facilitate linkage.\r\n\r\nThis dataset contains details of items dispensed in the community at prescribing location code level for General Practice data and aggregated by NHS Board for other prescriber location types. Items are described at British National Formulary (BNF) item description level.\r\n\r\nAll publications and supporting material to this topic area can be found on the Public Health Scotland - Prescribing and Medicines Website. The date of the next release can be found on our list of forthcoming publications.

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License UK Open Government Licence v3.0
Category Budget / Finance, Health and Social Care
Maintainer Public Health Scotland
Date Created 2018-01-17
Date Updated 2023-09-19
Original dataset link https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset/prescriptions-in-the-community

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