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Update on Dispensing Data Format – Temporary Support Period
5 August 2025

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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Dispensing datasets now available on the Open Data Portal 
29 July 2025

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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New Datasets Now Available: Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme
9 July 2025

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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New ODP datasets now available: BNF codes

15 April 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 meet the needs of users in line with our our 2024-2029 stategy.

We are publishing three datasets on the ODP which will provide information on BNF code data:

  • a current year dataset hosting a monthly view of the BNF from January to December
  • a historic dataset showing previous year-end data
  • a dedicated monthly changes dataset showing monthly changes for the 'current calendar year’

    • For more information on the BNF codes dataset, please see:

    Coming soon - BNF codes dataset

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