Hospital ePACT.net

A service for Trust pharmaceutical and prescribing advisors which allows real time on-line access to outpatient prescription data held on the NHSBSA PPD Prescribing Database.

The PPD has enhanced the existing ePACT.net service to provide prescribing data electronically to Trusts. The electronic analysis tool was developed to assist Trusts in the analysis of prescriptions written on FP10 prescription forms, which are dispensed by Community Pharmacists.

The service provides both financial performance management and drug usage reports for use by both pharmaceutical and finance staff.

It provides the facility to view historic data (eventually five years worth). The service provides both prescribing and dispensing information at Speciality level within Trust.

Hospital ePACT.net allows users to easily create their own graphs and reports from an extensive range of data and also provides a set of pre-defined graphs, tables and reports such as.

• Trust Level Analysis
• Hospital Forms Analysis

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. Speciality, NHS Trust)
• BNF classification (chapter to presentation level).

The data available includes:

• Prescribing Information
  • Net Ingredient Cost
  • Actual Cost
  • Quantity.

• Dispensing Information:
  • Dispenser details
  • Dispensing Fees
  • On cost discount
  • Patient Charges.

A 'tagging' facility for specific requests is available. The selection of data can be grouped by Speciality (e.g. Adult Mental Health, A&E) or specific BNF categories (e.g. specialist drugs). BNF tags can be shared between users. This data can also be displayed in tabular and graphical format.

The service has been enhanced to include Average Daily Quantities and Defined Daily Doses.

Query results can be saved to disk or exported to other PC applications

The service has been enhanced to include Average Daily Quantities and Defined Daily Doses.

This is an NHS.net delivered service that can be accessed from the PPD web site, 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

If your Trust wishes to have access to Hospital ePACT.net and would like an information pack, please contact Information Services on 0191 2035050 or