# OpenPrescribing

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/openprescribing/  
**Website:** https://openprescribing.net/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 35.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 49.7 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 58.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 21.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 36.5 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Free · Open public API · No registration — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **OpenPrescribing Spending API** — 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 NH...
- **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 lev...
- **OpenPrescribing Information API** — 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) b...
- **OpenPrescribing API** — OpenPrescribing API from OpenPrescribing — 19 path(s) described in OpenAPI.

## MCP servers (1)

- **OpenPrescribing MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Openprescribing Agentic Access** — 19 operations

## Security (2)

- **Openprescribing Authentication** — none · 0 schemes
- **Openprescribing Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Healthcare, United Kingdom, NHS, Prescribing, Pharmacy, Open Data, Primary Care, Public Health, Analytics

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/openprescribing/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.