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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)...

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...

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...

Coming soon: Dispensing data published on the Open Data Portal 10 June 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...

Available soon: Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) datasets 5 June 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...

Coming soon: NHSBSA Contract Register published on the Open Data Portal 4 June 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...

New Datasets Coming Soon: English community pharmacy COVID-19 vaccination service fees data 30 May 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...

Updated Dataset Available: EPD with SNOMED CT Codes on the Open Data Portal 22 May 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...

New Datasets Now Available: NHS Volunteering Find and Apply Service - Key Performance Indicators 20 May 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...

Coming soon: NHS Volunteering Find and Apply Service - Key Performance Indicators datasets 22 April 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...

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...

Coming Soon: Transition to the English Prescribing Dataset (EPD) with SNOMED CT Codes 4 April 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)...

Updated Dataset Now Available: Finalised Secondary Care Medicine Data (SCMD) with Indicative Pricing  20 March 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...

Coming soon – BNF codes dataset 11 March 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...

New Dataset Now Available: Dental New Patient Premium data 11 February 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...

New Dataset Available: Overseas Healthcare Services Cost Recovery 27 January 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...

Coming soon - Dental New Patient Premium dataset on the Open Data Portal 17 January 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...

Coming soon: Overseas Healthcare Services Cost Recovery Dataset 6 January 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?...

Introducing Rate Limiting on the NHSBSA Open Data Portal 20 December 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...

Updated Dataset Available: Contractor Details on the Open Data Portal 16 December 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...

Coming soon: Pharmacy Quality Scheme 2023/2024 data on the Open Data Portal 10 December 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...