Over the past year we have been increasingly using NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d). This blog post sets out to describe dm+d for the benefit of the wider prescribing analytics community and others. What is the NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d)? dm+d is the standard dictionary for the medicines and devices used across the NHS. It contains standardised codes, descriptions, and metadata (such as price and pack size) for every entry. At last count it contained over 150,000 packs of medicines and devices.

What are biosimilars, why are they of interest and why can we monitor usage with primary care data but not secondary care data?

Researchers use OpenSAFELY to analyse the Pharmacy First’s service uptake, data quality, and integration into primary care systems.

I've been made Prof of Research Software Engineering. Please come, listen, and eat canapés, to mark the occasion!

Come and join Seb for his inaugural lecture as the first-ever Professor of Practice at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences

We’ve used our new OpenCodeCounts tool to understand the coding of migrants in English primary care.

Making searching, comparing and sharing OpenPrescribing Hospitals measures easier.

NHS England is now accepting applications for using OpenSAFELY from today until 30th April 2026 at 17:00. After this date, the initial submission window will close. OpenSAFELY users can execute…

We’ve created a tool that could help with mapping of codelists from ICD-10 to SNOMED CT.

Objective To evaluate temporal changes in rates of newly recorded diagnoses for 19 long term conditions in England in relation to the covid-19 pandemic by disease, age group, sex, socioeconomic status...

The Apothecaries are back on the road! In this special live episode, The Aural Apothecary takes the stage at the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, hosted …