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A team at Oxford built a search engine for every drug the NHS prescribes, and it has quietly saved the health service millions.
It's called OpenPrescribing.
The NHS publishes its full prescribing dataset every month. It's 700 million rows of raw numbers nobody could actually read. So Oxford built a tool that turns it into live charts in seconds.
You type a drug name. It shows you which practices over-prescribe it, which regions are slow to follow new guidelines, and where the money is being wasted.
β Search any drug across any GP practice in England
β Find safety and cost outliers instantly
β 70+ ready-made quality measures
β Updates monthly, automatically
β Free, open source, MIT licensed
20,000 people use it every month. Doctors. Researchers. Journalists.
Public data that sat unreadable for years is now one search away.
https://t.co/U9KI0mUCAp