To contextualise the Pharmacy First consultation data in OpenSAFELY-TPP, we compared it with publicly available NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA) data.

The OpenSAFELY analysis and more background can be found at https://github.com/opensafely/pharmacy-first.

1. Get OpenSAFELY results: Go to the pharmacy-first-report workspace on OpenSAFELY Jobs, download the released files, and add them to the subdirectory released_output/
2. Get NHS BSA comparison data: Run the following R script to get the latest NHS BSA data added to the lib/nhsbsa/lib/validation/data/pf_consultation_validation_data.csv
3. Side by side comparison: To compare the OpenSAFELY results with the NHS BSA data run the following file analysis/nhs_bsa_pharmacy_first_comparison.Rmd and download the figure from the subdirectory output/

• /pf_consultation_validation_data.csv: Validation data taken from NHS BSA containing Pharmacy First consultation counts by condition.
• /pf_consultation_validation_data_by_region.csv: Validation data taken from NHS BSA containing Pharmacy First consultation counts by condition and by region (not currently being used in code).