In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, I wish to request access to the following records that I believe to be held by your organisation. I appreciate that some of what I have requested may not be available and I have therefore given different options dependent on the level of detail that is available. Obviously I wish to receive the most detailed level data that is available. Please do not hesitate to ring me if you have any questions or if you believe that the requests will exceed the fee threshold and thus I would need to prioritise. Request 1: Measures: Net Ingredient Cost (NIC), Quantity (Qty) and Prescriptions (Rx) by form and strength of the molecules named below split by brand or generic prescribed Molecules: candesartan cilexetil, eprosartan, irbesartan, losarten potassium, olmesartan medoximil, telmisartan and valsartan Time period: Monthly for the last 3 years, or less time if 3 years is not available Information aggregated according to where the prescription was written (in order of preference): - (If available): Named doctor, nurse, pharmacist or dentist prescriber; linked practice, pharmacy, hospital or other address; PPA number (where appropriate), Practice FHSA code (where appropriate); other practice, pharmacy or hospital code; name of senior partner (for GP practices only); Primary Care Trust name - (if available): Practice FHSA code (where appropriate); other practice, pharmacy or hospital code relating to where the prescription was written; linked practice, pharmacy, hospital or other address; name of senior partner (for GP practices only); Primary Care Trust name - (If available): anonymised doctor, nurse, pharmacist or dentist prescriber code; Primary Care Trust name - (If available): anonymised practice or pharmacy code; Primary Care Trust name - Organisation level ie Primary Care Trust name split by aggregate figures for GP, Hospital doctor, nurse, pharmacist and dentist. To clarify, the requested data would show the following types of data (assuming that all levels of data requested were available): For each prescriber eg Name of Prescriber A Prescriber Type of prescriber A Pharmacist Practice or other address An address, A Post Code PPA Number 12345 Practice FHSA code 123456 Other practice code (eg alphanumerice) AB123 Name of Snr Partner (for doctors or practice nurses N Bloggs Primary Care Trust name For each prescriber, information by molecule eg NIC (£) Qty Rx Candesartan cilexetil 100 10 20 Brand (Amias) 0 0 0 Tablet 2mg 0 0 0 Tablet 4mg 0 0 0 Tablet 8mg 0 0 0 Tablet 16mg 0 0 0 Generic 100 10 20 Tablet 2mg 50 5 10 Tablet 4mg 50 5 10 Tablet 8mg 0 0 0 Tablet 16mg 0 0 0 Request 2: Dispensed prescription data Measures: Net Ingredient Cost (NIC), Quantity (Qty) and Prescriptions (Rx) by form and strength of the molecules named below split by brand or generic prescribed Molecules: candesartan cilexetil, eprosartan, irbesartan, losartan potassium, olmesartan medoximil, telmisartan and valsartan Time period: Monthly for the last 3 years, or less time if 3 years is not available Information aggregated according to where the prescription was dispensed (in order of preference): - (If available): pharmacy code relating to where the prescription was written; linked pharmacy name & address; Primary Care Trust name - (If available): anonymised pharmacy code; Primary Care Trust name - Organisation level ie Primary Care Trust name My preferred form of access to these records is as on CD or DVD and preferably as a data file (eg csv) rather than a report file (eg Excel) Thank you for your help. Please do not hesitate to ring me if you have any questions.