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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 expected by 18 July 2025
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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Coming soon: 700k Additional Urgent Dental Appointments dataset
27 June 2025

Data on the the government's initiative to provide 700,000 additional urgent dental care appointments in 2025/26 will soon be published on the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA)...
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English community pharmacy COVID-19 vaccination service fees datasets now available
25 June 2025

The English community pharmacy COVID-19 vaccination service fees datasets are now available on the NHSBSA open data portal. These datasets provide valuable insights into...
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Platform Improvements: What’s New on the NHSBSA Open Data Portal
16 June 2025

What’s New on the NHSBSA Open Data Portal We’ve recently introduced a series of improvements to the NHSBSA Open Data Portal to enhance usability, strengthen security, and...
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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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