Request

Good morning, Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following information: Prescribing data for BNF “08: Malignant Disease and Immunosuppression” In both Hospital and community settings for the whole of England for the period Jan-2022 to February 2022.

Response

Community Prescribing Information

Under Section 21 of the Act, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you. The information you requested is available from web link

English Prescribing Dataset (EPD) which excludes hospital prescribing dispensed in the community:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/english-prescribing-data-epd

Hospital Prescriptions dispensed in the community:

Under Section 21 of the Act, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you. Information on prescriptions prescribed in hospital and dispensed in the community can be found from the below web link:

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/prescription-data/prescribing-data/hospital-prescribing-dispensed-community

Hospital Dispensing data

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information on prescribed and dispensed in hospital is not held by the NHS Business Services Authority.

However, it is possible that NHS England and Improvement may hold some or all of the information you require. They can be contacted at:

NHS England

PO Box 16738

Redditch

B97 9PT

Telephone 0300 311 22 33

Email: england.contactus@nhs.net

Web http://www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/foi/

Please note that this response will be published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-25500

Your personal details will be removed from the published response.