Updated prescribing data for February now available! Head over to openprescribing.net and sign up to an email alert for key changes in your practice, PCN, ICB or sub-ICB location.

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DOACs at extremes of bodyweight. Ever wondered how many patients over <50kg & >120kg are prescribed DOACs IRL🧮🤔? The fantastic PrescQIPP CIC team used OpenSAFELY to report DOACs💊monitoring & 👩‍⚕️prescribing pre/post pandemic from 20.5 million GP records! doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.…

STAR-PUs - should we still be using them?

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via theirishpharmacist OpenSAFELY

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We are reviewing how we use STAR-PUs in OpenPrescribing and we want to hear your thoughts. See our blog for more: bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/02/s…

Yesterday, NHS England updated its guidance on DOAC drugs. Today, we deployed updated dashboards to help every practice, ICB and region see how they're doing on this. You can see all the data too!

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More on how we do this quickly:
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NHS England updated their commissioning recommendations on DOACs today (england.nhs.uk/long-read/comm…), and we've updated our measure to reflect it. You can find your practice, PCN, SICBL, ICB and region here: openprescribing.net/measure/edoxab…

Updated prescribing data for October now available! Head over to openprescribing.net and sign up to an email alert for key changes in your practice, PCN, ICB or sub-ICB location.

A recent Drug Tariff change appears to have caused a sudden £450k per month increase in NHS spend on colesevelam tablets.

Read more in our latest blog: bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/10/l…

Updated prescribing data for July now available!

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The NHS England Medicines Optimisation Opportunities: A new dashboard on @OpenPrescribing bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/09/n… via Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

Link to new NHS England Medicines 💊Optimisation Opportunities 2023/24 OpenPrescribing 📊📈📉Dashboard

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Have you seen our new dashboards to support NHS England's Medicines Optimisation Opportunities?

Read more on our blog!

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Updated prescribing data for June now available!

Head over to OpenPrescribing.net and sign up to an email alert for key changes in your practice, PCN, ICB or sub-ICB location.

This work was possible due to open practice-level data OpenPrescribing in England, and data provided by HSE PCRS that we requested.

Big potential to enhance health using data, & even greater opportunity if similar data was openly available in Ireland

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Unfortunately we don’t have dashboards for Ireland as the HSE Medicines Management Programme (MMP) HSE Ireland does not make prescribing data routinely available. This is what we think from the paper and we have written more on our blog about what we can do if the data is available!!

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New paper alert!

We looked at impact of national prescribing restriction strategies for Lidocaine patches in England and Ireland.

Read this thread and the paper about what we found

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