secondary-care-medicines-data

SCMD - Homecare #2

Closed brianmkcebm opened this issue · 3 comments
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brianmkcebm commented 12 months ago

Does the SCMD data contain "homecare" prescriptions?

It is not mentioned in the guidance document.

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paul_westrip commented 12 months ago

Morning

I have confirmed with NHS England and RX-Info that Homecare prescriptions are included. The majority of this prescribing goes through pharmacy systems so is picked up automatically into the dataset. There are quite a few sources that don't have their own system so upload manually but there isn't anything thought to be excluded or missing in terms of Homecare.

I have already asked if the team at NHS England, that is responsible for this data, can work with me to update the guidance document to include this for future reference.

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brianmkcebm commented 12 months ago

Thanks - that is really helpful.

Happy to look at any documentation drafts as a user to see if they look ok to us non-experts!

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brianmkcebm commented 12 months ago

Happy to close!