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Coming soon: NHS Volunteering Find and Apply Service - Key Performance Indicators datasets
April 22, 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
April 15, 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
April 4, 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 
March 20, 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
March 11, 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 Available: Overseas Healthcare Services Cost Recovery

January 27, 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 publication, please refer to our recent article.

This release includes three performance datasets:

  • Completion rate (as a percentage)
  • Digital take-up (as a percentage)
  • Customer satisfaction

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