secondary-care-medicines-data-indicative-price

Negative numbers #2

Open mark opened this issue · 2 comments
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mark commented over 1 year ago

Hi There, Is there anyone that could please help me understand why there are some seriously high negative values for medicines some months.

My understanding is this data is medicines dispensed from pharmacy. If that is the case then why would there be negative values and why would they be so significant with some products?

Thank you in advance to whomever picks this question up

Regards,

Mark

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mark commented over 1 year ago

This is an example of one month:

202305 REN 3.29774E+16 Trifluridine 20mg / Tipiracil 8.19mg tablets 428673006 TABLET -920 COST -30666.67

202305 REN 3.29773E+16 Trifluridine 15mg / Tipiracil 6.14mg tablets 428673006 TABLET -2580 COST -64500

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brianmkcebm commented 10 months ago

From the docs

It is technically possible that a Trust can show a negative use of a medicine where supply made in a previous month has been returned in a subsequent one