Provisional Secondary Care Medicines Data (SCMD) with indicative price - SCMD_PROVISIONAL_202506 - Open Data Portal

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Alert 29 August 2025

Deployment completed.

The follow-up deployment on the NHSBSA Open Data Portal has now been completed. This release addresses outstanding actions from the previous update and delivers improvements as detailed in this news article.

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Additional Info

Field	Value
Data last updated	22 August 2025
Metadata last updated	22 August 2025
Created	22 August 2025
Format	text/csv
Licence	Open Government Licence 3.0 (United Kingdom)

Data Dictionary

Column	Title	Type	Description
YEAR_MONTH	Year and Month as YYYY-MM	number	The year followed by the month of when the medicines were issued. For example: 2019-01
ODS_CODE	Organisation Data Service Code	string	The Trust's Organisation Data Service Code (ODS), for example R1A. Look up files are provided and maintained by NHS Digital, for example see: Trusts under https://digital.nhs.uk/services/organisation-data-service/data-downloads/other-nhs-organisations.
VMP_SNOMED_CODE	Virtual Medicinal Product (VMP) SNOMED Code	number	The Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) Virtual Medicinal Product's (VMP) SNOMED code. For example: 322236009
VMP_PRODUCT_NAME	Virtual Medicinal Product (VMP) Product Name	string	The Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) Virtual Medicinal Product's Name. For example: Paracetamol 500mg tablets.
UNIT_OF_MEASURE_IDENTIFIER	Unit of Measure Identifier	number	The unit of measure for the VMP quantity's SNOMED code, or the value 3314211000001106 if there is no value. For example: 428673006.
UNIT_OF_MEASURE_NAME	Unit of Measure name	string	The Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) unit of measure name for unit of measure identifier, unit dose form unit, or 'no value' if unknown. For example: tablet.
TOTAL_QUANITY_IN_VMP_UNIT	Total Quantity in the Virtual Medicinal Product (VMP) Unit	number	The total quantity of medicines issued in Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) unit dose form unit that the Virtual Medicinal Product (VMP) is defined, rounded to 2 decimal places. For example: 20.
INDICATIVE_COST	Indicative Cost	number	Indicative cost for the Secondary Care Medicines Data is derived from current medicines pricing data held in NHSBSA data systems including the Common Drug Reference (CDR) database and dm+d calculated to a VMP level. The value will be in pounds and pence