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NHS England Primary Care Prescribing Data (OpenPrescribing)
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NHS England Primary Care Prescribing Data (OpenPrescribing) is a paid API for AI agents from api.webintel-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-24).
Returns NHS England GP prescribing statistics for a named drug from the official NHSBSA English Prescribing Dataset, grouped by region, ICB, practice, or product presentation.
Price / call$0.002
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
NHS England primary-care prescribing for a drug (official NHSBSA English Prescribing Dataset, monthly, ~2 months behind; the raw data behind OpenPrescribing.net): items, actual cost (GBP) and quantity, grouped by region, ICB, GP practice or product presentation, largest first. Match on BNF chemical substance or presentation name. Open Government Licence, no key.
Output
A ranked list of prescribing groups (regions, ICBs, GP practices, or product presentations) for the queried drug, each showing: group name, number of items prescribed, actual cost in GBP, and quantity dispensed — ordered largest first, up to the requested limit. Data is from the official NHSBSA English Prescribing Dataset, typically 1–2 months behind the current date.
Example use cases
Regional spend analysis on diabetes drugs
“Show me which NHS ICBs spent the most on metformin last month, top 20, grouped by ICB with actual cost in GBP.”
Tracking GLP-1 prescribing trends by practice
“Give me the top 50 GP practices prescribing semaglutide in the most recent month available — I want items and quantity per practice.”
Comparing antidepressant prescribing across regions
“Which NHS regions prescribed the most sertraline in December 2024? Group by region and show me the items and cost.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://api.webintel-api.workers.dev/api/search/openprescribing?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need official, government-sourced NHS England GP prescribing statistics (items, cost, quantity) for a specific drug, broken down geographically or by product. It is the authoritative source for England primary-care prescribing analytics and is free to query without an API key. Prefer it over third-party pharmacy datasets when you need BNF-coded drug data at ICB or practice level within England.
Side effects
- Drug name not matched in BNF — returns empty results or error if query string is too short or ambiguous
- Month parameter out of range — data may not be published yet for recent months; returns error or empty
- Area filter too specific — no matching ICB/region name contains the text, returns empty list
- Invalid groupBy value — must be one of region, icb, practice, presentation
- Limit out of range — must be 1–100, otherwise validation error
- Upstream NHSBSA dataset unavailable — intermittent 5xx from the worker
Input
Schema · Request body
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| output | object |
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