# OpenPrescribing Spending API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/openprescribing/openprescribing-spending-api/  
**Provider:** OpenPrescribing — https://apis.io/providers/openprescribing/  
**Base URL:** https://openprescribing.net/api/1.0  
**Documentation:** https://openprescribing.net/api/

OpenPrescribing Spending API is one of 4 APIs that [OpenPrescribing](https://apis.io/providers/openprescribing/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Prescribing, Spending, and Pharmacy. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an API reference.

Retrieve total prescribing spending, quantity and items across the last five years of the English Prescribing Dataset — by BNF code (section, chemical or presentation) and by NHS organisation (practice, PCN, Sub-ICB Location, ICB, Regional Team), plus drug-tariff, price-per-unit, ghost-generic and bubble-chart data. Returns JSON or CSV.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://openprescribing.net/api/
- **APIReference** — https://openprescribing.net/api/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/openprescribing/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other OpenPrescribing APIs (3)

- [OpenPrescribing Measures API](https://apis.io/apis/openprescribing/openprescribing-measures-api/)
- [OpenPrescribing Information API](https://apis.io/apis/openprescribing/openprescribing-information-api/)
- [OpenPrescribing API](https://apis.io/apis/openprescribing/openprescribing-openapi/)

## Tags

Prescribing, Spending, Pharmacy

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/openprescribing/openprescribing-spending-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/openprescribing/.