Organisation Data Service : Nurse Prescribers

Data Description

This data contains name and address information and identifying codes for Nurse Prescribers working in England. The identifying codes  are the Nurse’s PIN numbers, allocated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council when a Nurse qualifies to prescribe.

How Data is Maintained

The NHS Business Services Authority (BSA) collates the Nurse Prescribing data for their own internal use in tracking the prescribing activity of nurses. Information on the nurses and their place of work is provided to the NHS BSA by contacts within the Employer Organisations. This updating is carried out to the NHS BSA’s systems on an ongoing basis, with the NHS BSA supplying updated files to ODS for publication once a quarter.

Nurse Prescribers can have multiple memberships if they work from more than one surgery/GP Practice.


Data Quality Assessment

For further information re the: ODS Data Quality Assessment Framework



Data Quality Dimension
Last updated:

 

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OVERALLFrequency of UpdateData Collection MethodFit for PurposeCoverage / CompletenessReliability / AccuracyData Agreement3rd Party Escalation RoutesSystem Application / Downstream System FeedbackFuture Refinement / Improvement Plan
Nurse PrescriberAMBERRedRedAmberAmberRed3rd partyGreenGreenAmberRed

QuarterlyEmail (csv files)

Legacy dataset but unclear re value and current use cases.

Dataset is prescriber driven rather than identifying unique Nurse records.

Only includes nurses who prescribe

Have to use the practice code, start date and Nurse ID to create a composite key (to identify a unique record for a Nurse).

Lack of consistency when linking to practice data.


SLA in place and regularly reviewedNamed contacts, regular stakeholder meeting/forum

Limited feedback but we do not feel this dataset has a the same volume of users as org data.

Data does not conform with ODS data model for practitioner so requires a lot of manipulation.

Need to determine if ODS should continue to publish this data - who is using it and for what purposes.

Links to Master Reference Data Strategy.

Key Information - Roles, Code Formats and Data Source

Key Information
Geographic coverage
  • England
Practitioner ID

Nurse PIN (Nursing and Midwifery Council identifier)

Practitioner Type Code

PNURSEPractitioner Type Name

Nurse Prescriber
Practitioner Role ID


PNURSEPNPractitioner Role Name


Practice Nurse
PNURSECNCommunity Nurse
PNURSE1District Nurse/Health Visitor

PNURSE2

Extended Formulary nurse prescriber / Nurse supplementary prescriber.
Raw Data Source

NHS Business Services Authority 

Update Frequency

Quarterly

Code Format

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

0-90-9A-Z0-90-90-90-9A-Z

Permitted Relationships - Practitioner to Organisation

Practitioner Membership 



 Membership Type CodeRelationship Type NameParent Organisation Type
ME5Nurse Prescriber Membership

RO177 / RO76 (GP Practice)

Legacy .csv File Mapping

enurse.csv

PractitionerAttributeTypeCode = 5 for “NURSE PRESCRIBER CODE”

Only includes records where there is an active ME5 (Nurse Prescriber Membership) relationship.

Col

Data Item

Report Alias (Legacy csv)

Notes

1

[PractitionerRoleID]

Nurse Type

PN (PNURSEPN - Practice Nurse) or CN (PNURSECN - Community Nurse)

2

[OrganisationCode]

Parent Organisation Code

Organisation code taken from the [PractitionerMembershipTypeCode] = ME5, where the [JoinParentOrganisationDate] is the latest date

3

[PractitionerAdditionalAttribute]

Nurse PIN

PractitionerAttributeTypeCode = 5

4

[StartDate]

Open Date

The date that supports the ME5 nurse prescriber membership/relationship

5

[EndDate]

Close Date

The date that supports the ME5 nurse prescriber membership/relationship. End dates will always be future dates as this file contains active ME5 Nurse Prescriber to practice relationships only.

6

NULL

Title

Change from legacy csv: This attribute is not being persisted with.  Set to Null

7

NULL

Initials

Change from legacy csv: Previously ‘Initials’. Set to null. Surnames and initials have been concatenated for consistency across all practitioner types (see Col 8).

8

[PractitionerName]

Surname

Change from legacy csv: Previously Surname. Surnames and initials have been concatenated for consistency across all practitioner types

9

[Address1]

Address1

Practice Name (from ME5 relationship) of the practice that is detailed in COLUMN 2

10

[Address2] 

Address2

The address details that belong to the practice that is detailed in COLUMN 2

11

[Address3] 

Address3

The address details that belong to the practice that is detailed in COLUMN 2

12

[Town]

Address4

The address details that belong to the practice that is detailed in COLUMN 2

13

[County] 

Address5

The address details that belong to the practice that is detailed in COLUMN 2

14

[Postcode] 

Postcode

The postcode that belongs to the practice that is detailed in COLUMN 2

15

[TelephoneNumber]

Telephone Number

As above

16

[PractitionerName]

Senior Partner Name

The Practitioner Name that is the senior partner for the practice detailed in COLUMN 2.

Is inconsistent within the raw data. Our approach therefore is to derive the senior partner from the parent organisation GP, linking into the GP Practitioner records and identifying the 'Senior Partner' for the practice (as opposed to the Senior Partner provided in the raw data, previously eNurse).

17

[PCO_code]

Current Care Organisation Code

Change from legacy csv: Geographic extension of the postcode using the geographies table for the Practice that is detailed in COLUMN 2

18

[GeographyName]

Name

Change from legacy csv: The name of the above Geography

19

NULL

Name Manipulation Indicator

Change from legacy csv: This legacy attribute (how nurse prescribers should be addressed in correspondence) is NOT available within ODS DSE or the FHIR4 API. This is due to the inconsistency in the way the same practitioner could be addressed if they work in more than one organisation i.e.

1 (INSERT ‘DR’ & ROTATE SURNAME & INITIALS ON LAST SPACE)
2 (NO MANIPULATION OF SURNAME AND INITIALS)
3 (INSERT ‘DR’ - NO FURTHER MANIPULATION)
4 (INSERT ‘DR’ & ROTATE SURNAME & INITIALS ON FIRST SPACE)

20

[PractitionerRoleID]

Qualification Indicator

Change from legacy csv: Previously 1 (District Nurse/Health Visitor) or 2 (Extended Formulary nurse prescriber / Nurse supplementary prescriber). Now populated with either ‘1’ (District Nurse/Health Visitor) or ‘2’ (Extended Formulary nurse prescriber / Nurse supplementary prescriber) (from PractitionerRoleID). Should a nurse have more than one qualification indicator, both will be displayed in this field with a pipe separator.