OpenPrescribing

aid: openprescribing
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/openprescribing/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: OpenPrescribing
kind: company
description: OpenPrescribing.net is an open-data service built and operated by the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
  at the University of Oxford. It turns the English Prescribing Dataset published monthly by the NHS Business Services Authority
  into public dashboards, prescribing-safety measures, and a free RESTful API covering primary-care GP prescribing across
  England. The API exposes spending, quantity and item counts by BNF code and by NHS organisation (practice, PCN, Sub-ICB
  Location, ICB, Regional Team), standardised prescribing measures, drug-tariff and price-per-unit data, and organisation
  reference/boundary lookups, all returned as JSON, CSV or GeoJSON. Home market is the United Kingdom (England prescribing
  data). It is an independent academic analytics platform layered on NHS open data, not an NHS FHIR clinical system; there
  is no OAuth, no SMART-on-FHIR, and currently no registration or API key is required.
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · Open public API · No registration
  confidence: high
  source:
  - documentation
  generated: '2026-07-24'
  method: observed
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Healthcare
- United Kingdom
- NHS
- Prescribing
- Pharmacy
- Open Data
- Primary Care
- Public Health
- Analytics
created: '2026-07-24'
modified: '2026-07-24'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: openprescribing:openprescribing-spending-api
  name: OpenPrescribing Spending API
  description: 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.
  humanURL: https://openprescribing.net/api/
  baseURL: https://openprescribing.net/api/1.0
  tags:
  - Prescribing
  - Spending
  - Pharmacy
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://openprescribing.net/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://openprescribing.net/api/
- aid: openprescribing:openprescribing-measures-api
  name: OpenPrescribing Measures API
  description: 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.
  humanURL: https://openprescribing.net/api/
  baseURL: https://openprescribing.net/api/1.0
  tags:
  - Prescribing
  - Measures
  - Public Health
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://openprescribing.net/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://openprescribing.net/measure/
- aid: openprescribing:openprescribing-information-api
  name: OpenPrescribing Information API
  description: Reference-data lookups for the prescribing dataset — search BNF sections, chemicals and presentations by name
    or code; look up NHS organisations (Sub-ICB Location or practice) by code or name; retrieve list size and ASTRO-PU details;
    and fetch Sub-ICB Location boundaries or approximate practice locations as GeoJSON.
  humanURL: https://openprescribing.net/api/
  baseURL: https://openprescribing.net/api/1.0
  tags:
  - Reference Data
  - BNF
  - Organisations
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://openprescribing.net/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://openprescribing.net/api/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/openprescribing-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/openprescribing-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://openprescribing.net/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://openprescribing.net/api/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://openprescribing.net/api/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://openprescribing.net/api/
- type: About
  url: https://openprescribing.net/about/
- type: Support
  url: https://openprescribing.net/faq/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/bennettoxford
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/bennettoxford/openprescribing
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/openprescribing/blog/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://openprescribing.net/api/
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/openprescribing-openapi.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/openprescribing-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/openprescribing-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/openprescribing-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/openprescribing-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/openprescribing-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/openprescribing-conformance.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/openprescribing-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/openprescribing-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/openprescribing-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/openprescribing-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com