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Prescribing Analysis and Cost (ePACT.net)
A service for pharmaceutical and prescribing advisors
which allows real time on-line analysis of the previous
sixty months prescribing data held on the NHSBSA PPD
Prescribing Database.
Data
is updated on a monthly basis (5 weeks after the dispensing
month) and can be selected according to:
- Reporting
period (i.e. month, quarter, year)
- Prescribing
organisation (e.g. practice, PCT)
-
BNF classification (chapter to presentation level)
-
Controlled drugs tag.
The
data available includes:
- Budgets
and expenditure forecasts
- Costs
and volumes of prescribing
- Prescribing
totals by prescribers at all BNF levels
- Prescribing
from the Nurse and Extended Nurse Formularies
- Working
environment for nurses and supplementary prescribers
(i.e. community or practice)
- Patient
list sizes
- Low
Income Scheme Index scores for practices
- Average
Daily Quantities and Defined Daily Doses.
- Prescribing
On Behalf Of PCT/Practice.
- Dispensing
contractor name and address
Data can be displayed in tabular and graphical formats.
A
'tagging' facility for specific requests is available.
The selection of data can be grouped by specific practices
(e.g. rural, dispensing, locality) or specific BNF categories
(e.g. practice formulary, specialist drugs). BNF tags
can be shared between users (e.g. to assist in the monitoring
of formularies within a PCT). A set of pre-defined BNF
tags is provided, including ones based on the drug lists
used in Prescribing Toolkit Reports.
Data
can be filtered to analyse repeat dispensing, Local
Pharmaceutical Services and Out of Hours Care Providers.
Query results can be saved to disk or exported to other
PC applications. Users can defer the processing of large
queries and view the results when convenient.
This
service is available to:
- Primary
Care Trusts (PCTs)
- Strategic
Health Authorities (SHAs)
- Agencies
acting on behalf of groups of other organisations
- National
Users including:
- Department
of Health (DH)
- National
Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NIHCE)
- Healthcare
Commission
- National
Prescribing Centre (NPC)
- Health
and Social Care Information Centre Prescribing
Support Unit (PSU).
Information
is available at a variety of levels:
- Prescriber,
practice, & PCT level for PCT users
- PCT
and SHA level for SHA and National users
Practice
prescribing can be analysed comparatively using a variety
of patient denominators such as:
- Patient
- Prescribing
Unit (PU)
- ASTRO
PU - Age, Sex and Temporary Resident Originated Prescribing
Unit
- STAR
PU - Specific Therapeutic group Age-sex Related Prescribing
Units
- Nurse
Prescribing Formulary PU.
- SUB
THERA STAR PU - BNF section STAR PU for use with Prescribing
Toolkit drug lists.
From
May 2006, ePACT.net will give National and PCT users
the ability to monitor Private Controlled Drug Prescribing.
PCT
users will be set up with a new monitoring service which
will give them access to all prescribers in their PCT,
with an option to switch between FP10 NHS prescribing
and Private Controlled Drug Prescribing.
National
users can also have a similar switch to allow them to
view either FP10 NHS prescribing or Private Controlled
Drug prescribing at Individual Prescriber, PCT, SHA
and National level. However, users will need to apply
for access to Private CD Prescribing, in the first instance,
by contacting the PPD helpdesk on 0191 2035050.
This
is an NHS.net delivered service that can be accessed
from the PPD website, www.ppa.nhs.uk.
To
access the service, users require a PC with Internet
Explorer and connection to the NHS.net. The PPD welcomes
feedback to help further develop the service. Please
contact Toolkit.feedback@ppa.nhs.uk
If
you wish to have access to ePACT.net and would like
an information pack, please contact the PPD Helpdesk
on 0191 2035050 or Help@ppa.nhs.uk
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