english-prescribing-data-epd

Retrospective changes #6

Open kendavies opened this issue · 1 comment
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kendavies commented 8 months ago

My query covers all prescribing datasets - can you tell me whether retrospective changes are ever made and if so, how can we identify updated datasets? Thank you.

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paul_westrip commented 8 months ago

Hi

Retrospective changes are avoided as much as possible. On the rare occasions where data has been found to be incorrect after publication then the original data is removed and the new data reloaded. A notice of correction will then be added to the dataset page to alert users.

I know that many of our users access the data through API and may not visit the webpages very often so we are working on better ways for alerts to reach those users.