Request

'You have kindly supplied the figures for November 2019 through to May 2020 inclusive, when in fact the request was for February 2019 and the 3 months either side , so November 2018 to May 2019 inclusive [electronic prescriptions dispensed to patients by Gale Farm Pharmacy 109-119 FRONT STREET, ACOMB, YORK, YO24 3BU (FCW26) to patients whose post code begins 'YO26 6']'

Response

A copy of the information is attached.

The data source was the NHSBSA Information Services Data Warehouse.

The time period covered is November 2018 - May 2019.

NHSBSA Prescription Services process prescriptions for Pharmacy Contractors, Appliance Contractors, Dispensing Doctors and Personal Administration with information then used to make payments to pharmacists and appliance contractors in England for prescriptions dispensed in primary care settings (other arrangements are in place for making payments to Dispensing Doctors and Personal Administration). This involves processing over 1 billion prescription items and payments totalling over £9 billion each year. The information gathered from this process is then used to provide information on costs and trends in prescribing in England and Wales to over 25,000 registered NHS and Department of Health and Social Care users.

This dataset is limited to items prescribed via the Electronic Prescriptions Service (EPS) to patients whose post code begins 'YO26 6'.

This dataset is limited to items dispensed by Gale Farm Pharmacy 109-119 FRONT STREET, ACOMB, YORK, YO24 3BU (FCW26).

"No. of Items" shows the number of times a product appears on a prescription form not the quantity prescribed.

All data is based on dispensed prescription items that were processed by the NHSBSA, not including items not dispensed, disallowed or returned back. Also excluding items prescribed but not presented for dispensing or not submitted to NHS Prescription Services by the dispenser.

If you have any queries regarding the data provided, or if you plan on publishing the data, please contact nhsbsa.foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data please contact nhsbsa.communicationsteam@nhs.net. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement: “NHSBSA Information Services Data Warehouse, NHSBSA Copyright 2022” This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence.

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated.

Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information.