OpenPrescribing NHS Spend Scraper
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OpenPrescribing NHS Spend Scraper
Track NHS England prescribing spend by drug from OpenPrescribing. Search a drug or pass a BNF code, and get a monthly series of items dispensed, quantity, actual cost in pounds, and cost per item across five years. Useful for health policy research, pharma analysis, and budget tracking.
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💊 OpenPrescribing NHS Spend Scraper
🚀 Track NHS England drug spend month by month. One search for "atorvastatin" returns five years of national spend, 4.3 million items a month at the peak.
Pull NHS England prescribing spend from OpenPrescribing, the open analytics platform built on official prescribing data. Search a drug by name or pass a BNF code, and get a monthly series of items dispensed, quantity, actual cost in pounds, and cost per item.
Coverage: national NHS England prescribing for any BNF chemical, with the most recent 60 months of data per drug.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Health policy researchers | Track spend and volume trends |
| Pharma analysts | Study market size by drug |
| NHS and ICB teams | Monitor prescribing budgets |
| Journalists and data scientists | Build prescribing datasets |
📋 What the OpenPrescribing NHS Spend Scraper does
- Resolves drug names to their NHS BNF chemical codes.
- Accepts exact BNF codes for precise pulls.
- Returns a monthly national spend series per drug.
- Reports items, quantity, actual cost, and a computed cost per item.
- Covers the most recent 60 months of data.
- Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML, or via API.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: actualCost, bnfCode, costPerItem, date, drugName, items, quantity, results, scrapedAt, section, spendingUrl. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
🚀 How to use
- Create a free Apify account using this sign-up link.
- Open the OpenPrescribing NHS Spend Scraper.
- Enter
searchTermsorbnfCodes, and setmaxItems. - Click Start and watch the dataset fill in real time.
- Export your results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML, or pull them via API.
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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection.
⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with OpenPrescribing, the Bennett Institute, or the NHS. Data is provided by the OpenPrescribing open data platform.
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