Its aim is to support policy initiatives concerned with primary care by producing regular reporting on prescribing activity and by providing informed advice on prescription-related issues.

Our role

In our new to this service section find out more about how we:

• analyse national prescribing data
• advise on prescribing issues and policy

What we do

In our using the service section you can find:

• details on the two databases managed by the unit
• details on other datasets used by the unit
• descriptions of the measures used to analyse prescribing
• descriptions of the indicators used to compare prescribing
• information on resource allocation and forecasting prescribing costs
• help with monitoring the use of controlled drugs
• access to reports, presentations and published articles.