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.

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

Monthly

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 above Nurse PIN

5

[EndDate]

Close Date

The date that supports the above Nurse PIN

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

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

10

[Address2] 

Address2

As above

11

[Address3] 

Address3

As above

12

[Town]

Address4

As above

13

[County] 

Address5

As above

14

[Postcode] 

Postcode

As above

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.