Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 1 Dec 2025 | Updated: 2 days ago
Secondary Care Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration Data Collection
Dataset
Summary
Type:
- Collections
- Information standards
Effective From:
22 May 2024
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.
Conformance Date:
13 January 2025
Topics:
- Data definitions and terminologies
- Pharmacy, Medicines and Prescribing
Care Settings:
- Community health
- Hospital
- Maternity
- Mental health
- Pharmacy
- Urgent and Emergency Care
Alternate Name:
Secondary Care Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA) Data Collection
Documentation
Associated Media:
Description:
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).
Origin
Name:
NHSE-SD Data Catalogue