On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 04:09:33PM +0300, Stefan Magdalinski wrote: > > On 12 Jan 2012, at 15:19, Mark Goodge wrote: > > > On 27/12/2011 15:55, Caroline Flyn wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Does anyone know of anyone/ any organisations who are analysing the new > >> GP-practice level prescription data? > > > > Just out of interest, what sort of information do you think it would be > > useful/interesting to extract from it? > > > > regional variations in prescriptions, especially of things like valium and > viagra > regional variations in prescription of generics vs branded > > for 2.
I've vaguely toyed with plotting the prescription levels for Salbutamol as a proxy for suffering of asthma symptoms. Would be interesting geographically. Both across country, and within one city - imagine a Mapumental layer for it. Also want more a time dimension (how much more in winter than summer?) so giving me an excuse to wait for more data before actually doing it... Might be possible to wrap that back to being selfish... e.g. notice an excessively high number of prescriptions in your area as a flag for bad weather patterns / a virus going round, so you can start taking preventitive asthma medicine when you weren't otherwise. Francis _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
