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Coming soon: Dispensing data published on the Open Data Portal June 10, 2025
In the coming weeks, we will migrate the publishing of three Dispensing datasets from the Dispensing contractors' data | NHSBSA onto the Open Data Portal (ODP): Dispensing Doctors and Personally Administered Drugs and Appliances (PADM) report Practice ...
Available soon: Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) datasets June 5, 2025
Data in relation to the number of claims received by the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) will soon be available on our Open Data Portal (ODP). The VDPS provides a one-off, tax-free payment, currently of £120,000. Under the government’s rules ...
Coming soon: NHSBSA Contract Register published on the Open Data Portal June 4, 2025
In the coming weeks, the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) Commercial Services team will be publishing its Contract Register on the Open Data Portal. What will be published? The Contract Register provides details of the goods and services ...
New Datasets Coming Soon: English community pharmacy COVID-19 vaccination service fees data May 30, 2025
Who are we? The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) processes fee claims and arranges payments to community pharmacies in England for providing COVID-19 vaccinations as part of an enhanced service. What are we publishing? This management ...
Updated Dataset Available: EPD with SNOMED CT Codes on the Open Data Portal May 22, 2025
The English Prescribing Dataset (EPD) is now available in an updated format, incorporating Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) codes, on the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) Open Data Portal. We will continue to ...
New Datasets Now Available: NHS Volunteering Find and Apply Service - Key Performance Indicators May 20, 2025
We’re pleased to announce that the NHS Volunteering Find and Apply Service - Key Performance Indicators datasets are now available on the NHSBSA Open Data Portal. These datasets provide key performance metrics for the NHS Volunteering Service, a ...
Coming soon: NHS Volunteering Find and Apply Service - Key Performance Indicators datasets April 22, 2025
Performance data for the NHS Volunteering Find and Apply Service will soon be published on the NHSBSA Open Data Portal. Available as two separate datasets, these will provide insights into key service metrics for both organisations and volunteers ...
New ODP datasets now available: BNF codes April 15, 2025
The British National Formulary (BNF) codes dataset is now available on the NHSBSA Open Data Portal (ODP). The dataset has migrated from being hosted on the Information Services Portal (ISP) to the ODP as part of a drive to improve services and better ...
Coming Soon: Transition to the English Prescribing Dataset (EPD) with SNOMED CT Codes April 4, 2025
The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) is preparing to transition to the English Prescribing Dataset (EPD) with Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) codes as the primary dataset. To ensure a smooth transition, both ...
Updated Dataset Now Available: Finalised Secondary Care Medicine Data (SCMD) with Indicative Pricing March 20, 2025
We’ve updated how the Secondary Care Medicine Data (SCMD) with Indicative Pricing dataset is structured on the NHSBSA Open Data Portal (ODP), making it easier for users to track and analyse medicines stock movement across NHS Acute, Teaching, ...
Coming soon – BNF codes dataset March 11, 2025
In the coming weeks, the NHS Business Services Authority will migrate the British National Formulary (BNF) codes dataset from the Information Services Portal (ISP) to the Open Data Portal (ODP). Why is it migrating? The ISP will be decommissioned as ...
New Dataset Now Available: Dental New Patient Premium data February 11, 2025
The Dental Recovery Plan dataset has now been published on the NHSBSA open data portal. For more information, including the context and reasoning behind the publication, please refer to our recent article. This dataset provides valuable insights into ...
New Dataset Available: Overseas Healthcare Services Cost Recovery January 27, 2025
The latest performance data for Overseas Healthcare Services’ (OHS) Cost Recovery service is now available on the Open Data Portal. For more information, including the context behind this publication, please refer to our recent article. This release ...
Coming soon - Dental New Patient Premium dataset on the Open Data Portal January 17, 2025
***Due to delays in the accompanying context, we are delaying the release of the dataset for coherence purposes. The data will be released as soon as possible and will cover data from March 2024 to October 2024, with updates planned monthly.*** In the ...
Coming soon: Overseas Healthcare Services Cost Recovery Dataset January 6, 2025
The latest performance data for Overseas Healthcare Services’ Cost Recovery service will be published on 27 January 2025 and updated quarterly. Who are Overseas Healthcare Services? Overseas Healthcare Services (OHS) manage reciprocal healthcare for ...
Introducing Rate Limiting on the NHSBSA Open Data Portal December 20, 2024
Introducing Rate Limiting on the NHSBSA Open Data PortalThe NHSBSA Open Data Portal provides essential healthcare data to researchers, policymakers, developers and the public. To keep the portal reliable and accessible for everyone, we’ve introduced ...
Updated Dataset Available: Contractor Details on the Open Data Portal December 16, 2024
The updated Pharmacy Contractor Details dataset has now been published on the NHSBSA open data portal. Please refer to our recent article for more information behind this change. Explore the updated dataset now: Visit the dataset landing page: ...
Coming soon: Pharmacy Quality Scheme 2023/2024 data on the Open Data Portal December 10, 2024
The NHSBSA data services team are using the open data portal to publish the latest 2023/24 Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) data. The dataset is scheduled to be released by the end of December. What will be published? Part of the Community Pharmacy ...
Coming soon: Updated Contractor Details Dataset November 29, 2024
The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) Contractor Details dataset will soon be updated with additional fields. The dataset is scheduled to be updated during December 2024, though this date is subject to change. Why are we updating the dataset? ...
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 ...