Primary Care Data
This page contains information and links to a range of data at GP practice level held by ISD.
Publicly available data
GP Workforce and practice list sizes - Information on the number of GPs in Scotland, GP practices and populations data.
National Therapeutic Indicators - Data visualisation showing a set of prescribing indicators that are used for quality improvement work, with comparisons at Board, HSCP, Cluster and Peer Group level.
GP Practice Demographics - A data visualisation showing GP practice demographics and quarter on quarter changes in populations, broken down by age group, gender, deprivation decile.
Disease Prevalence - A data visualisation showing disease prevalence figures at GP practices in Scotland between, with comparisons at Board, HSCP and Cluster level (data up to April 2019).
Prescriptions in the Community (Open Data) - Contains details of items dispensed in the community at prescribing location code level for General Practice and aggregated by NHS Board for other prescriber location types. Items are described at British National Formulary (BNF) item level. These data releases cover one month for all NHS health boards.
Prescribed and Dispensed Data (Open Data) - Information on GP practice prescribing and subsequent community pharmacy dispensing. These data releases provide details by prescriber location and prescriber type on the number of items prescribed and which community pharmacies they were subsequently dispensed at.
Health and Care Experience Survey - The biennial results of the survey of patients at GP practices in Scotland (data up to January 2018).
Password protected data
PCI - Additional data available to GP practices, including Outpatients and Admissions data at GP practice level and “High Health Gain” patient listings.
Discovery - an information system that provides approved users with access to a range of comparative healthcare information to support performance and quality improvement in Health Boards across Scotland. Data is available at GP practice, Cluster, HSCP and Board level.
Prescribing Costs Metrics Dashboard - This dashboard helps identify variation in prescribing costs per patient, in NHS Boards, Health and Social Care Partnerships, GP Clusters and GP Practices.
