DAPB4005: Secondary Care Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA) Data Collection

This is a new information standard commissioned by NHS England to enable the capture of patient level, nationally consistent data from electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA) systems for medicines prescribed and administered to patients in NHS secondary care settings.

The data set will provide comprehensive and comparable data about medicines use across NHS trusts, supporting an element of the NHS Long Term Plan (2019) which calls for increased usage of ePMA systems.

Providers will submit ePMA data to NHS England’s Data Processing Service platform (DPS) via weekly extracts and should also submit historic data (back to 1 April 2015, where the data is already held).

This information standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. An Information Standards Notice (see below) provides an overview of scope and implementation timescales, and the requirements specification provides further detail for those who have to implement the information standard.