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OpenPrescribing provides Drug Tariff data for England from 2010. On the site you can find prices, look at price concessions, and chart how they have changed over time. This is useful if you want to understand how the reimbursement price of a drug has moved, or check whether a product has been subject to a price concession in a given period.
What you can look up
The Drug Tariff section of OpenPrescribing is built around three main tasks:
- Find prices — look up Drug Tariff prices for products.
- Look at price concessions — see where concessions have applied.
- Chart changes over time — view how prices have changed across the available history.
The data covers England and starts from 2010, so any trend view is limited to that window rather than earlier years.
How to get there
From the OpenPrescribing homepage, the Drug Tariff entry sits alongside the other main tools (Area and Practice Dashboards, Trends, Hospitals, and the query form). Selecting it takes you to the Drug Tariff area, where the price, concession, and charting options are grouped.
The exact layout of filters and result tables is best confirmed on the live page, since the site is updated over time — for example, new measures have been launched in OpenPrescribing Hospitals in 2026.
What this is good for
| Task | What OpenPrescribing gives you |
|---|---|
| Check a current or historical Drug Tariff price | Price lookup for England, from 2010 |
| See whether a concession applied | Price concession data |
| Understand a price trend | Charts of price changes over time |
| Compare against prescribing volumes | Separate prescribing dashboards and query tools on the same site |
If your question is about how much of a drug was prescribed rather than what it costs, the prescribing dashboards and the custom query form are the better starting points. The Drug Tariff area is specifically about pricing and reimbursement.
Practical notes
- Coverage: England only, from 2010.
- Anonymisation: the underlying prescribing data published by the NHS in England is anonymised; the Drug Tariff data is a separate dataset on the same platform.
- Citation: if you use the data or graphs, the site asks you to cite as OpenPrescribing.net, Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, University of Oxford, 2026.
- Usage guidelines: the site points to its guidelines for using the data, which are worth reading before republishing figures.
For anything beyond price lookup and charting — for example, combining tariff prices with practice-level prescribing — use the flexible query form under "Run your own analyses".