.... Ahh. Been beaten to the anti-depressants it would seem. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/mar/05/data-store-pharmaceuticals-industry This looks like it was done by PCT data, rather than GP practice-level data. Didn't realise that was already out there.
But continues to be interesting as more data released? On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Caroline Flyn <[email protected]>wrote: > Could flag up individual practices which prescribe abnormally high amounts > of, say, ritalin or other ADHD drugs (or perhaps anti-depressants or > anti-anxiety drugs) which should be a last resort? > > The practices are all identified in separate CSV file, so would allow us > to check and screen out practices that are obviously very large (e.g. with > a large number of patients)... > > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Mark Goodge <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 12/01/2012 13:23, Francis Irving wrote: >> >>> >>> Might be possible to wrap that back to being selfish... e.g. notice an >>> excessively high number of prescriptions in your area as a flag for >>> bad weather patterns / a virus going round, so you can start taking >>> preventitive asthma medicine when you weren't otherwise. >>> >> >> There's a three month lag on the data being released, so that isn't going >> to be practical :-) >> >> >> Mark >> -- >> Sent from my Babbage Difference Engine 2 >> http://mark.goodge.co.uk >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> developers-public mailing list >> developers-public@lists.**mysociety.org<[email protected]> >> https://secure.mysociety.org/**admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/** >> developers-public<https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public> >> >> Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/**admin/lists/mailman/options/* >> *developers-public/caroline.**flyn%40gmail.com<https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/caroline.flyn%40gmail.com> >> > > > > -- > Cal Flyn > 07786 230144 > -- Cal Flyn 07786 230144
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