Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 1 Dec 2025 | Updated: 44 days ago
Secondary Care Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration Data Collection
Dataset
Summary
Reference Code:
DAPB4005 Amd 14/2021
Publication Version:
1.0.0
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
Publication Date:
22 May 2024
Contact Point
Contact Point:
Collection/Extraction Details
Collection Level:
Record level
Frequency:
Dataset publication or collection occurs once a week.
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).
Review & Status
Sponsor:
Ming Tang, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, NHS England
Approval Date:
30 June 2022
Business Lead:
Steve Marks, Senior Programme Manager, NHS England
Post Implementation Review Date:
31 December 2025
Scope:
NHS Services
SRO:
Rahul Singal, Chief Pharmacy and Medicines Information Officer, NHS England
Technical Committee:
Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)
Mandated:
Yes
Status:
active
Legal Authority 1
Legal Authority:
Section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
Legal Authority Description:
This standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act
2012.
Legal Authority 2
Legal Authority:
Section 259 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
Origin
Name:
NHSE-SD Data Catalogue