OpenPrescribing Tariff API
Drug-tariff prices and price-per-unit / ghost-generic savings data.
Drug-tariff prices and price-per-unit / ghost-generic savings data.
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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: OpenPrescribing Tariff 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. It is built and operated by the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford on top of the English Prescribing Dataset published monthly by the NHS Business Services Authority. The API returns prescribing spending, quantity and item counts by BNF code and by NHS organisation (practice, PCN, Sub-ICB Location / CCG, ICB / STP, Regional Team), standardised prescribing-quality measures, drug-tariff and price-per-unit data, ghost-generic savings, and organisation reference and boundary lookups. Responses are JSON or CSV; organisation-location endpoints return GeoJSON. No registration, API key or OAuth is required. This specification was generated by API Evangelist by reading the public, MIT-licensed Django source (openprescribing/api/urls.py and the api/views_*.py modules); it is not a provider-published spec.
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: Tariff
description: Drug-tariff prices and price-per-unit / ghost-generic savings data.
paths:
/bubble/:
get:
operationId: getBubble
summary: Price-per-unit bubble-chart data
description: Price-per-unit data for a single BNF presentation in a shape suitable for a Highcharts bubble chart, optionally highlighting/focusing a single organisation.
tags:
- Tariff
parameters:
- name: bnf_code
in: query
required: true
schema:
type: string
description: BNF presentation code.
- name: date
in: query
required: true
schema:
type: string
format: date
description: Month (YYYY-MM-DD, first of month) within the available 5-year window.
- name: highlight
in: query
schema:
type: string
description: Organisation code to highlight (practice or CCG/Sub-ICB Location).
- name: focus
in: query
schema:
type: string
description: When set together with highlight, restricts the chart to the highlighted org.
responses:
'200':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Bubble'
'400':
$ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
/tariff/:
get:
operationId: getTariff
summary: Drug-tariff prices
description: Drug-tariff prices (including NCSO price-concession data) for one or more BNF codes. Requesting no codes returns the entire (large) tariff and is cached.
tags:
- Tariff
parameters:
- name: codes
in: query
schema:
type: string
description: Comma-separated list of BNF codes. Omit to return the whole drug tariff.
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/format'
responses:
'200':
$ref: '#/components/responses/GenericList'
/price_per_unit/:
get:
operationId: getPricePerUnit
summary: Price-per-unit savings
description: Price-per-unit data and potential savings for presentations across practices or Sub-ICB Locations for a given month.
tags:
- Tariff
parameters:
- name: date
in: query
required: true
schema:
type: string
format: date
description: Month (YYYY-MM-DD, first of month).
- name: entity_code
in: query
schema:
type: string
description: Organisation code (practice or CCG/Sub-ICB Location).
- name: entity_type
in: query
schema:
type: string
enum:
- practice
- ccg
description: Organisation type; inferred from entity_code length when omitted.
- name: child_org_type
in: query
schema:
type: string
description: Child organisation type to break results down to (e.g. practice).
- name: bnf_code
in: query
schema:
type: string
description: Restrict to a single BNF code.
- name: aggregate
in: query
schema:
type: boolean
description: Aggregate across all of England.
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/format'
responses:
'200':
$ref: '#/components/responses/GenericList'
'400':
$ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
/ghost_generics/:
get:
operationId: getGhostGenerics
summary: Ghost-generic savings
description: Potential savings from "ghost-branded generic" prescribing, comparing the price paid against the national median price, for a given month and organisation.
tags:
- Tariff
parameters:
- name: date
in: query
required: true
schema:
type: string
format: date
description: Month (YYYY-MM-DD, first of month).
- name: entity_code
in: query
schema:
type: string
description: Organisation code.
- name: entity_type
in: query
required: true
schema:
type: string
enum:
- practice
- ccg
description: Organisation type.
- name: group_by
in: query
schema:
type: string
enum:
- practice
- presentation
- all
default: practice
description: Aggregation level for the results.
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/format'
responses:
'200':
$ref: '#/components/responses/GenericList'
'400':
$ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
components:
responses:
GenericList:
description: A list of result objects.
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: array
items:
type: object
text/csv:
schema:
type: string
Bubble:
description: Bubble-chart series and categories.
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
plotline:
type:
- number
- 'null'
series:
type: array
items:
type: object
categories:
type: array
items:
type: object
BadRequest:
description: Invalid request (bad/missing parameter, unrecognised org type, invalid code).
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
parameters:
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.
schemas:
Error:
type: object
description: Django REST Framework error envelope.
properties:
detail:
type: string