To support users in transitioning to the new formatting standards introduced under ODP Best Practice and Statistical guidelines, we will be providing the April, May, and June 2025...
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Three dispensing datasets have now migrated onto the Open Data Portal (ODP): Dispensing Doctors and Personally Administered (PADM) report Practice Prescribing Dispensing...
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Coming soon: Urgent Dental Appointments dataset
23 July 2025
We are pausing the planned release of monthly urgent dental treatment data. This decision has been made to allow further review and reflection on the methodology, including an assessment...
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Data in relation to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) has been published on our Open Data Portal. The VDPS provides a one-off, tax-free payment, currently of £120,000....
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Finalised Secondary Care Medicines Dataset (SCMD) for 2024/25 Financial Year — now available
8 July 2025
What’s new in this release The SCMD provides a provisional view of stock activity across NHS Trust sites. Each July, an annual finalised release is published for the preceding...
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Deployment update: improvements and fixes now live on the NHSBSA Open Data Portal
29 August 2025The latest deployment to the NHSBSA Open Data Portal has been completed, bringing improvements and fixes to enhance your experience when browsing datasets.
Clearer dataset titles and resources
Dataset titles are no longer cut off after 80 characters. This means longer, more descriptive titles are now shown in full.
Text in the resource box (where files linked to a dataset are listed) is no longer truncated. The new layout gives more space so the information can be viewed in full.
Data dictionary display update
The data dictionary, which explains the contents of each dataset, has been updated so that very long words and strings no longer overflow outside the table.
This is an interim fix to contain the text; a future update will further improve readability.
Improved tables
Tables across the portal (including news and feedback logs) now display correctly without spilling off the page.
Fewer display errors in Data Explorer view
Behind-the-scenes improvements to the file upload process mean that datasets now display more reliably in the Data Explorer. This reduces display errors and ensures datasets can be viewed as intended.
Other updates
Alongside the changes described above, this deployment also included a number of additional behind-the-scenes improvements for system administrators and dataset publishers. These technical updates are not detailed here but help ensure the portal runs smoothly and remains reliable.
Need help or spotted an issue?
If you encounter any issues or need help using the portal, please contact us at DataServiceSupport@nhsbsa.nhs.uk.