PrAna

PrAna (Prescription Analysis) is an R package to calculate and visualize England NHS primary care prescribing data. It aims to aggregate and normalise England’s national level prescription data, for all groups of drugs. The name is an acronym for Prescription Analysis. PrAnaViz is a web-browser based R/Shiny tool developed by the Environmental Chemistry and Public Health Group at the University of Bath. PrAnaViz facilitates users to visualize, explore and report different spatio-temporal and long-term prescription trends of different Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) in prescription medications for human use in the UK for wider use. This tool helps to understand the general practice level and postcode level variation of an API.