Secondary Care Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration Data Collection
Aims to capture patient level data from electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA) systems for medicines prescribed and administered to patients in NHS secondary care settings.
About this standard
- Publisher
- NHS England
- Also known as
- Secondary Care Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA) Data Collection
- Reference code
- DAPB4005 Amd 14/2021
- Publication date
- 22/05/2024
- Publication version
- 1.0.0
- Status
- Active
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- Standard type
- Collections
- Information standards
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Collections. A Collection is a systematic gathering of a specified selection of data or information for a particular stated purpose from existing records held within health and care systems and electronic devices.
Extractions. An extraction is a type of collection that is pulled from an operational system by the data controller and transmitted to the receiver without additional processing or transcription by the sender.
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Technical Standards and specifications. Technical standards and specifications specify how to make information available technically including how the data is structured and transported.
- Collection level
Record level
- Frequency
Dataset publication or collection occurs once a week.
- Contact point
Link to standard
- Documentation
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- Applies to
- Secondary care providers in England recording medicine prescribing and administration information electronically on ePMA systems.
- The above secondary care services provide acute, mental health, specialist, and community care services
- Impacts on
- Implementation of this information standard impacts all health IT systems suppliers providing systems to the above providers; suppliers should work with their customers to determine necessary changes.
- Associated medias
- Conformance date
- 13/01/2025
- Effective from
- 22/05/2024
Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Data definitions and terminologies
- Prescribing
- Care setting
- Community health
- Hospital
- Maternity
- Mental health
- Pharmacy
- Urgent and Emergency Care
Review Information
- Scope
- NHS Services
- Sponsor
Ming Tang, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, NHS England
- Senior Responsible Officer
Rahul Singal, Chief Pharmacy and Medicines Information Officer, NHS England
- Business Lead
- Steve Marks, Senior Programme Manager, NHS England
- Approval date
- 30/06/2022
- Post Implementation review Date
- 31/12/2025
Legal basis and endorsements
- Legal authority
Section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
This standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
Section 259 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
More information
The data set will provide comprehensive and comparable data about medicines use across NHS trusts, supporting an element of the NHS Long Term Plan (2019) which calls for increased usage of ePMA systems.
Providers will submit ePMA data to NHS England’s Data Processing Service platform (DPS) via weekly extracts and should also submit historic data (back to 1 April 2015, where the data is already held).
Page last updated: 18 June 2024