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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Prescribing

Summary

Abstract

Community dispensed prescription items for patients registered to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board.

Keywords

Publisher

  • Name
    West of Scotland Safe Haven
  • Logo

    Not available

  • Description
    Not available
  • Contact point
    Not available

Documentation

Description

Community dispensed prescription items for patients registered to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board. Drugs are coded to the British National Formulary (BNF) code and include details of strength, unit, and dose. Does not include hospital prescribing, although the West of Scotland Safe Haven intends to make this available in 2024.

Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom, Scotland, Glasgow City

  • Geographic levels
    Not available

Temporal

  • Start date
    01/01/1999
  • End date
    01/01/2024
  • Frequency
    Monthly
  • Distribution release date
    01/01/2024

Provenance

  • Purpose
    Not available
  • Source
    Other
  • Collection situation
    Primary care - Clinic, Prescribing - Community pharmacy, Community

Access and governance

  • Conditions of access
    General research use

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Usage

  • Conditions of use
    Project-specific restrictions
  • Resource creator
    Local NHS boards
  • Is referenced by
    Not available

Access

  • Access rights
  • Access service
    The West of Scotland Safe Haven is part of the regional Safe Haven network in Scotland. We operate as a REC-approved research database (IRAS 321198) within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and offer a delegated ethics route for data-only studies, cohort builds and linkage to a variety of deep, multi-modal clinical NHS data types - including structured, free text, and imaging - with hosting of deidentified research-ready datasets in an ISO-accredited Secure Data Environment. For more information, please email safehaven@ggc.scot.nhs.uk to discuss requirements.
  • Jurisdiction
    GB-SCT
  • Data controller
    NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
  • Data processor
    NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Format and standards

  • Language
    English
  • Format
    Database

Enrichment and linkage

  • Related datasets
    • Not available
  • Linkage opportunity
    Not available
  • Tools
    • Not available

Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset. 

Data Dictionary

CAREHOMERESIDENT

Care home flag

DISP_DATE

Dispense date

DISPENSED_QUANTITY

Dispense quantity

FORM_TYPE_CODE

Formulation code

FORMTYPEDESCRIPTION

Formulation description

NUMBER_OF_DISPENSED_FORMS

Number of forms

NUMBER_OF_DISPENSED_ITEMS

Number of items

PAID_CALENDAR_MONTH_AND_YEAR

Paid period

PI_APPROVED_NAME

Drug approved name

PI_BNF_CHAPTER_CODE

BNF detail

Variable description

Data type