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New Dataset Available: Immigration Health Surcharge - 'Students' and 'Health & Care' (digital application) key performance indicators September 9, 2024
The Immigration Health Surcharge - 'Students' and 'Health & Care' (digital application) key performance indicators datasets have now been published on the NHSBSA open data portal. For more information, including the context and reasoning behind ...
Upcoming Release: Immigration Health Surcharge Reimbursement Data August 28, 2024
In the coming weeks, the latest performance data for the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) reimbursement scheme will be published to the open data portal for the first time. The data will be published on the NHSBSA Open Data Portal on 9 September ...
Coming Soon: Scottish Dispensing Data Publication on the Open Data Portal August 5, 2024
The NHSBSA data services team are using the open data portal to publish data from English prescriptions that were dispensed in Scotland during the period of May 2023 to April 2024. The release is scheduled to go live by the end of Quarter 2 2024/25. ...
New Dataset Available: NHSBSA Commercial Pipeline Now Live on NHSBSA Open Data! July 26, 2024
We're excited to announce the official launch of the NHSBSA Commercial Pipeline dataset on the NHSBSA Open Data portal. For more information, see the recent article explaining the Who, What and Why behind this publication. Explore the Dataset ...
Implementing CAPTCHA on NHSBSA Open Data Portal Registration July 22, 2024
In recent months, the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) has identified attempts to create automated accounts on the Open Data Portal. To further strengthen our defences and safeguard the integrity of our data, we've implemented CAPTCHA in the ...
New Open Publication: NHSBSA Commercial Pipeline July 15, 2024
Our NHSBSA Commercial Team has been working with colleagues in the Open Data Team within Data, Digital and Technology (DDaT) to use our Open Data Portal to publish the commercial pipeline. Once the new government-wide portal is launched, the pipeline ...
Changes to Actual Cost reporting calculation (Pharmacy only) May 28, 2024
We've updated our prescription data reports to reflect the recent changes to the discount deduction applied to pharmacy contractors' monthly total of reimbursement prices, listed in the Drug Tariff Part V. From April 2024, any financial report ...
Pharmacy First Data included in the Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) dataset April 26, 2024
Document 26 March 2024 Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) Monthly Administrative Data will now include medicines supplied under the pharmacy's first pathways. These medicines aren't currently identifiable as Pharmacy First supplies in the February ...
Changes to the ‘standard’ compressed file type (.ZIP -> .GZ) April 17, 2024
In response to feedback from our users, we've made some adjustments to the standard file type when downloading compressed data from the Open Data Portal. This change is aimed at enhancing accessibility for alternative API connection methods and ...
Latest improvements on the Open Data Portal March 29, 2023
Latest Improvements We are really excited to announce that the latest release of improvements on the Open Data Portal are now live. New dedicated FOI response area One of biggest changes you will see is that we now have new dedicated FOI Responses ...
Changes to the Secondary Care Medicines Data (SCMD) March 20, 2023
We have made changes to the Secondary Care Medicines data (SCMD) we publish. We previously published Secondary Care Medicines Data in two locations on the Open Data Portal. Secondary Care Medicines Data Secondary Care Medicines Data with Indicative ...
Exciting new user features on the Open Data Portal October 20, 2022
We are delighted to let you know about new functionality on the Open Data Portal. User accounts that enable you to follow and get updates (like when new data is available) on the datasets that matter to youDiscussion areas on all datasets so that you ...
Let us know how you use the Open Data Portal October 4, 2022
The NHS Business Services Authority want to make more of our data open, so that people can innovate and create value across the health and care system. In early 2020 we launched the Open Data Portal to be the home of open data from the NHSBSA. We have ...