How can I find the prescribing dashboard for my GP practice or local area on OpenPrescribing?

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OpenPrescribing publishes anonymised NHS England GP prescribing data and provides a dashboard for every ICB, Sub-ICB Location, and GP practice in the country. To find yours, use the "Analyse" menu in the top navigation and choose the geography level you want — "Practices" for a single GP surgery, or "Sub-ICB Locations" / "ICBs" for your local area. Each dashboard shows the same set of standard prescribing measures, so you can compare your practice or area against others.

Which dashboard level do you need?

The site organises dashboards by NHS geography. Pick the level that matches your question:

Level Use it for Where to find it
GP practice A single surgery's prescribing Analyse → Practices
PCN A primary care network Analyse → PCNs
Sub-ICB Location Your local commissioning area Analyse → Sub-ICB Locations
ICB Your integrated care board Analyse → ICBs
Regional Teams Wider regional view Analyse → Regional Teams
All England National comparison Analyse → All England
Hospitals Hospital drug data Analyse → Hospitals

If you are not sure which Sub-ICB Location or ICB your practice sits in, start from the practice dashboard — it sits within that structure.

Step-by-step: find a GP practice dashboard

  1. Open the site and click Analyse in the top navigation.
  2. Select Practices.
  3. Search for your practice by name or code, or browse the list.
  4. Open the practice page to see its dashboard of standard prescribing measures.
  5. Use the measures shown to compare the practice against others, and follow links to the underlying data if you need detail.

The same pattern applies to areas: choose Sub-ICB Locations or ICBs instead of Practices, then search for your area.

What you will see on a dashboard

Each dashboard presents a set of standard prescribing measures that the site has identified, rather than raw prescription rows. This is the main reason the site exists: NHS England publishes around 17 million rows of prescribing data per month, and the dashboards turn that into comparable measures for every ICB, Sub-ICB Location, and practice.

Beyond dashboards, you can:

  • Run your own analyses with the flexible query form if the standard measures do not answer your question.
  • Spot national trends over the last 5 years for any drug or BNF section.
  • Check Drug Tariff data for England from 2010, including prices and price concessions.
  • Look at hospital drug data, including dashboards and submission history.

Common sticking points

  • Wrong geography level. A practice dashboard will not show you ICB-level totals; switch level in the Analyse menu.
  • Expecting patient-level data. The underlying NHS data is anonymised, and the site presents aggregate prescribing measures.
  • Needing a measure that is not listed. Use the custom query form rather than assuming the dashboard is incomplete.
  • Citing the data. If you use the data or graphs, the site asks you to cite it as: OpenPrescribing.net, Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, University of Oxford, 2026.

The site is designed and built by the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford, and it also publishes guidance on using the data — worth reading before you draw conclusions from a dashboard.