Secondary Care Medicines Data (SCMD) is published by the NHSBSA on behalf of NHS England. It contains processed pharmacy stock control data in a standardised format from all NHS Acute, Teaching, Specialist, Mental Health, and Community Trusts in England.
The SCMD includes monthly quantities of medicines issued by NHS Trust pharmacies and includes an indicative cost of medicines supplied. The indicative cost is based on the community pharmacy reimbursement prices for generic medicines and list prices for branded medicines. Data is standardised according to the Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) which is used to represent medicines and devices in use across the NHS.
The NHSBSA plan to make this data available in ePACT2 for all registered analysis users. This will enable users to create analyses and reports in ePACT2 without having to download separate data extracts from the NHSBSA Open Data Portal.
More information will be posted on the ePACT2 newsfeed and on the ePACT2 User Network hosted on the FutureNHS platform.