AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
FOI-02850

##Request

if you would be able to develop on top of the FOI Requests, Would it be possible for the data to be limited to prescribing within BNF Chapter 20 Dressings, Chapter 21 Appliances and Chapter 22 Incontinence Appliances, Chapter 23 -Stoma Appliances, limited to England, Wales, Scotland, Guernsey, Alderney, Jersey, and the Isle of Man.  

The data excludes:  

Items not dispensed, disallowed and those returned to the contractor for further clarification.  

Prescriptions prescribed and dispensed in Prisons, Hospitals and Private prescriptions. 

Items prescribed but not presented for dispensing or not submitted to NHS Prescription Services by the dispenser. 

Could we have the same caveats so that the data matches with the English Prescribing Dataset (EPD). 

Would it be possible to have the data in the same format for March 2025 please 

##Response

Under Section 21 of the FOIA we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you.  

 

The information you requested is available on the NHSBSA Open Data Portal. Please use link below to access this information. 

 

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02846 

 

Please see the following link to view the section 21 in full - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/21 

 

##Publishing this response 

 

Please note that this information will be published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at: 

 

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02850 

 

Your personal details will be removed from the published response. 


Tags: BNF Chapter 20-22, BNF Chapter 23
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-02871

##Request##
You asked us:
<p><i>Following receipt of my FOI request 02625 received in March 2025 I would like to request the same information for the period Jan 2025 to March 2025 by month.
Please can you provide the information in the form of an Excel spreadsheet.</i></p>

##Response##
Under Section 21 of the FOIA we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you. 

January 2025 and February 2025 

The information you requested is available at the following link:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02792 

Please see the following link to view the section 21 in full - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/21

March 2025

A copy of this information is attached.

Unfortunately it is currently not possible to preview the March 2025 dataset on the Open Data Portal. We are in contact with our Data Services Support Team to determine the issue.

If you use “Explore” and “Download”, it will load the file to your computer direct.

We are working on some improvements to our portal at the moment, so please accept our apologies for the inconvenience caused. There are some “How To” guides on the site, that may assist you, but please do not hesitate to contact the team with any other queries.

Please read the below notes to ensure correct understanding of the data.

NHS Prescription Services process prescriptions for Pharmacy Contractors, Appliance Contractors, Dispensing Doctors and Personal Administration with information then used to make payments to pharmacists and appliance contractors in England for prescriptions dispensed in primary care settings (other arrangements are in place for making payments to Dispensing Doctors and Personal Administration). This involves processing over 1 billion prescription items and payments totalling over £9 billion each year. The information gathered from this process is then used to provide information on costs and trends in prescribing in England and Wales to over 25,000 registered NHS and Department of Health and Social Care users.
	
Data Source	- The data source was the NHSBSA Information Services Data Warehouse.

Time Period - March 2025

Please note drugs flagged in our database as Schedule 2 and 3 controlled drugs have been excluded from this dataset for information security reasons to prevent the identification of organisations with high levels of controlled drug dispensing. 

This data is limited to prescriptions prescribed in England and dispensed in either England, Scotland or Wales. 

The dataset also excludes items supplied as part of a Pharmacy First consultation or service 

Exclusions
The Data excludes: 
	•           Items not dispensed, disallowed and those returned to the contractor for further clarification. 
	•           Prescriptions prescribed and dispensed in Prisons, Hospitals and Private prescriptions.
	•           Items prescribed but not presented for dispensing or not submitted to NHS Prescription Services by the dispenser.



Tags: prescribing data, prescriptions, stoma
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-02882

Thank you for your request for information about the following: 

##Request 

‘Under the freedom of information, how many drs and nurses do the bsa employ and what cost’ 

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 29 May 2025.  

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). 

##Our response 

The NHSBSA does not employ any doctors or nurses. The NHSBSA is not an NHS Trust organisation, rather we are a Special Health Authority providing back-office functions to the wider NHS. 

##Data Queries 

Please contact foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data. 

##Reusing the data and copyright 

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data please contact communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented. 

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at: 

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/  

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement: “NHSBSA Copyright 2025”. Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence. 

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated. Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information. 

Tags: Doctors, Nurses
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-02873

Thank you for your request for information about the following: 

##Request 

‘I would be most obliged if you are able to provide information regarding the profile of all contractors providing NHS Pharmaceuticals in England - I am trying to segment the different types of contractors into large national (eg Boots, Well, Rowland  etc), Regional Multiples (eg Day Lewis, Peak, Jardines), small multiples operating >10 stores and independent contractors with 1-9 stores. Can you help in any way?’ 

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 27 May 2025.  

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). 

##Our response 

We have considered this request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA 2000). 

The NHSBSA does hold the requested information; however, the information you requested is available at the following web link: 

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/pharmacy-openings-and-closures 

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/contractor-details 

We’re giving you this link because the information you have requested has already been published and is therefore available in the public domain. Under Section 21 of the FOIA we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you. 

Please see the following link to view the section 21 in full - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/21 

##Data Queries 

Please contact foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data. 

##Reusing the data and copyright 

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data please contact communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented. 

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at: 

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/  

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement: “NHSBSA Copyright 2025”. Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence. 

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated. Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information. 

Tags: NHS Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacy
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-02861

##Request

You asked us:

_1) Dental and Medical dynamisation factors for calculating practitioner benefits, both yearly factors and monthly factors for each of the years 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25. There are good reasons why I am asking for factors for each year even though strictly speaking the latest factors should be sufficient to do a calculation at any date in the past._

_2) Please provide the full table of factors to enable me to dynamise earnings for any year starting from 1949. The table of factors for each of the years requested above should therefore start from 1949._

_3) Each of the six years requested should have yearly factors and accompanying monthly factors i.e. 6 x 2 equals 20 sets of factors in total._

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).

##Our response

I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds the information you have requested, and a copy of this information is attached.

##Data Queries

Please contact <a href=mailto:foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk>foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk</a>  ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data.

##Reusing the data and copyright

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data please contact <a href=mailto:communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk>communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk</a>. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement:

“NHSBSA Copyright 2025” This information is licenced under the terms of the open Government Licence:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence.

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated.  Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information.

Tags: Pensions
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-03175

Thank you for your request for information about the following:

##Request

<i>
1) Since March 2020, how many applications or appeals for Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) reimbursement have been approved despite the applicant not holding an eligible health and social care SOC code? 

2) Of these successful cases, how many were approved based on evidence of direct health or social care duties and/or the employers eligibility rather than the SOC code?</i>

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 10 September 2025. 

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).  

##Our response

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information you requested is not held by the NHSBSA. This is because SOC codes are not a requirement as part of the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) reimbursement process.

##Advice and assistance

For further details, please refer to the GOV.UK website https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-health-surcharge-applying-for-a-refund/immigration-health-surcharge-guidance-for-reimbursement-2020. Specifically, section titled ‘Reimbursement process Annex A: eligibility criteria’.

Tags: IHS, Immigration Health Surcharge
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-03161

Thank you for your request for information about the following: 

<strong>Request</strong>

You asked us:

<i>‘please send updated details for the following re covid vaccines 
1 Notified of a payout
2 rejected claims
3 Awaiting medical assessment
4 claims made but rejected under the 60 percent threshold’</i>

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 5 September 2025.

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000. 

<strong>Our response</strong>

Under Section 21 of the FOIA, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you.

To view the Section 21 of the FOIA: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/21

We publish information on claims made to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) on the Open Data Portal (ODP) for both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 claims.

To view COVID-19 VDPS claims data on the ODP: https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/vdps-covid-19

To view non-COVID-19 VDPS claims data on the ODP:
https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/vdps-non-covid-19 

Additional information about ODP data on VDPS claims:

•	ODP data on VDPS claims will be updated in the next quarter of 2025.<br>
•	Where there are blank cells, this is where the number of claimants are fewer than five and have been redacted to protect confidentiality.

<strong>Data Queries</strong>

Please contact <a href=mailto:foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk>foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk</a>  ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data.

<strong>Reusing the data and copyright</strong>

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data please contact <a href=mailto:communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk>communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk</a>. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement: “NHSBSA Copyright 2025” This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence:<br>
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence.

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated. Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information.


Tags: NHSBSA corporate, VDPS, Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, nhsbsa
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-03132

Thank you for your request for information about the following: 

##Request 

<p><i>‘Please can you confirm as of the date the FOI is processed the number of employees that are currently working for NHS Pensions that fall into the following banding.</i></p>

<p><i>Band 2</i></p>

<p><i>Band 3</i></p>

<p><i>Band 4</i></p>

<p><i>Band 5</i></p>

<p><i>Band 6</i></p>

<p><i>Band 7’</i></p>

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 29 August 2025.  

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). 

##Our response 

I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds the information you have requested and a copy of the information. 

Band 2: 12 

Band 3: 819 

Band 4: 92 

Band 5: 131 

Band 6: 35 

Band 7: 31 

##Data Queries 

Please contact <a href=mailto:foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk>foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk</a> ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data. 

##Reusing the data and copyright 

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data please contact <a href=mailto:communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk>communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk</a>. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented. 

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at: 

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/  

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement: “NHSBSA Copyright 2025”. Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence. 

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated. Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information. 

Tags: Employees, NHS Pensions
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-03183

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  <strong>Request</strong><br><br>

  <em>You asked us:</em><br><br>

  <em>Please can you develop on top of FOI-02996 for months May 2025 and June 2025?</em><br><br>

  <em>The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 15 September 2025.</em><br><br>

  <em>We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000.</em><br><br>

  <strong>Our response</strong><br><br>

  Under Section 21 of the FOIA we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you.<br><br>

  The information you requested can be accessed via the NHS Business Services Authority's Open Data Portal. Please refer to the link provided below for further details.<br><br>

  <a href="https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-03129">FOI-03129 - Datasets - Open Data Portal</a><br><br>

  Please see the following link to view the section 21 in full - <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/21">https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/21</a><br><br>

  <strong>Publishing this response</strong><br><br>

  Please note that this information will be published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:<br><br>

  <a href="https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-03183">https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-03183</a><br><br>

  Your personal details will be removed from the published response.

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Tags: NHS Prescription Services
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-03112

#Request

_Please supply figures for the number of NHS Dental patients who’ve received a Penalty Charge Notice when they were entitled to free treatment, but though lack of knowledge, hadn’t applied for a HC2 Certificate entitling them to free treatment?_

#Response

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information you requested is not held by the NHSBSA.  
 
We do not know if someone is entitled to an HC2 until they apply for the NHS Low Income Scheme. We can only see what exemption someone has claimed once they have received treatment.  



Tags: HC2, Penalty Charges
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-03116

Thank you for your request for information about the following: 

##Request 

<p><i>‘Please could you confirm (as of 1st September), how many Remediable Pension Savings Statements have been sent?</i></p>

<p><i>Could you also confirm whether you will be doing any further comms/ engagement activities to encourage members to act on their RPSS?’</i></p>

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 27 August 2025.  

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). 

##Our response 

##Question 1 - Please could you confirm (as of 1st September), how many Remediable Pension Savings Statements have been sent? 

As of 1 September 2025, 111,264 Remediable Pension Savings Statements had been sent. 

##Question 2 - Could you also confirm whether you will be doing any further comms/ engagement activities to encourage members to act on their RPSS? 

We continue to review and develop communications materials to support NHS Pension Scheme members to act on their RPSS, in response to feedback and the needs of our members. This includes updating website content, issuing guidance, contact centre key messages, reminder communications to Scheme members where needed, and sharing and amplifying messaging on behalf of HMRC. 

##Data Queries 

Please contact <a href=mailto:foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk>foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk</a> ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data. 

##Reusing the data and copyright 

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data please contact <a href=mailto:communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk>communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk</a>. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented. 

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at: 

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/  

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement: “NHSBSA Copyright 2025”. Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence. 

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated. Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information. 

Tags: NHS Pensions, RPSS, Remedial Pension Savings Statement
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log