OpenPrescribing

OpenPrescribing Measures API

Standardised NHS prescribing-quality and safety measures (numerators, denominators and calculated values) at national, Regional Team, ICB, Sub-ICB Location, PCN and practice level. These endpoints power the OpenPrescribing measure dashboards and are served under the public /api/1.0/ surface; they are not featured on the main /api/ documentation page. Returns JSON or CSV.

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Operations 7

GET /measure/ Global (all-England) measure values #

GET /measure_by_regional_team/ Measure values by Regional Team #

GET /measure_by_icb/ Measure values by ICB (STP) #

GET /measure_by_sicbl/ Measure values by Sub-ICB Location (CCG) #

GET /measure_by_pcn/ Measure values by Primary Care Network (PCN) #

GET /measure_by_practice/ Measure values by GP practice #

GET /measure_numerators_by_org/ Measure numerator breakdown by organisation #

Documentation

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Documentation

https://openprescribing.net/api/

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APIReference

https://openprescribing.net/measure/

Specifications

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OpenAPI

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/openprescribing/refs/heads/main/openapi/openprescribing-measures-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: OpenPrescribing Measures API
  version: '1.0'
  summary: Free, open, key-less REST API over English NHS primary-care prescribing data.
  description: OpenPrescribing.net exposes NHS England primary-care (GP) prescribing data as a free, public, RESTful API.
  license:
    name: MIT
    url: https://github.com/bennettoxford/openprescribing/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
  contact:
    name: Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
    url: https://openprescribing.net/api/
servers:
- url: https://openprescribing.net/api/1.0
  description: Production
tags:
- name: Measures
  description: Standardised NHS prescribing-quality and safety measures.
paths:
  /measure/:
    get:
      operationId: getMeasures
      summary: Global (all-England) measure values
      description: National (all-England) values for one or more standardised prescribing measures.
      tags:
      - Measures
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/measure'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/tags'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/format'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/MeasureList'
  /measure_by_regional_team/:
    get:
      operationId: getMeasureByRegionalTeam
      summary: Measure values by Regional Team
      tags:
      - Measures
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/measure'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/tags'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/orgList'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/parentOrgType'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/aggregate'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/format'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/MeasureList'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
  /measure_by_icb/:
    get:
      operationId: getMeasureByIcb
      summary: Measure values by ICB (STP)
      tags:
      - Measures
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/measure'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/tags'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/orgList'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/parentOrgType'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/aggregate'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/format'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/MeasureList'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
  /measure_by_sicbl/:
    get:
      operationId: getMeasureBySicbl
      summary: Measure values by Sub-ICB Location (CCG)
      tags:
      - Measures
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/measure'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/tags'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/orgList'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/parentOrgType'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/aggregate'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/format'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/MeasureList'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
  /measure_by_pcn/:
    get:
      operationId: getMeasureByPcn
      summary: Measure values by Primary Care Network (PCN)
      tags:
      - Measures
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/measure'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/tags'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/orgList'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/parentOrgType'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/aggregate'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/format'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/MeasureList'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
  /measure_by_practice/:
    get:
      operationId: getMeasureByPractice
      summary: Measure values by GP practice
      tags:
      - Measures
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/measure'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/tags'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/orgList'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/parentOrgType'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/aggregate'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/format'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/MeasureList'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
  /measure_numerators_by_org/:
    get:
      operationId: getMeasureNumeratorsByOrg
      summary: Measure numerator breakdown by organisation
      description: The individual presentations that make up a measure's numerator, broken down for a given organisation.
      tags:
      - Measures
      parameters:
      - name: measure
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Single measure id.
      - name: org_type
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Organisation type.
      - name: org
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Organisation code.
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/format'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/GenericList'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
components:
  parameters:
    tags:
      name: tags
      in: query
      schema:
        type: string
      description: Comma-separated list of measure tags to filter by.
    format:
      name: format
      in: query
      schema:
        type: string
        enum:
        - json
        - csv
        default: json
      description: Response format. May also be supplied as a URL suffix (.json / .csv) via DRF format_suffix_patterns.
    aggregate:
      name: aggregate
      in: query
      schema:
        type: boolean
      description: Aggregate values across all organisations of the requested type.
    orgList:
      name: org
      in: query
      schema:
        type: string
      description: Comma-separated list of NHS organisation codes.
    measure:
      name: measure
      in: query
      schema:
        type: string
      description: Comma-separated list of measure ids.
    parentOrgType:
      name: parent_org_type
      in: query
      schema:
        type: string
      description: Parent organisation type to scope the query to.
  schemas:
    MeasureValue:
      type: object
      properties:
        measure:
          type: string
        org_type:
          type: string
        org_id:
          type: string
        org_name:
          type: string
        date:
          type: string
          format: date
        numerator:
          type: number
        denominator:
          type: number
        calc_value:
          type:
          - number
          - 'null'
        percentile:
          type:
          - number
          - 'null'
    Error:
      type: object
      description: Django REST Framework error envelope.
      properties:
        detail:
          type: string
  responses:
    GenericList:
      description: A list of result objects.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: array
            items:
              type: object
        text/csv:
          schema:
            type: string
    BadRequest:
      description: Invalid request (bad/missing parameter, unrecognised org type, invalid code).
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    MeasureList:
      description: A list of measure values.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: array
            items:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/MeasureValue'
        text/csv:
          schema:
            type: string