ebmdatalab/openprescribing

Mismatch in Mometasone 50mcg nasal spray costs between prescribing data and concessions data

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A user has reported a mismatch between the cost of Mometasone 50mcg nasal spray (1202010U0AAAAAA) for March 2024 in ePACT2 vs our price concessions page.

Here's the data from ePACT2, showing a cost of £2.3m:

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But our All England price concessions page shows a normal cost of £5,411 with an extra cost of £9,720:

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Our Analyse page shows similar figures to ePACT2:

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(The difference can probably be accounted for by slightly different filters on practice types.)

This is because this presentation is one of the rare ones where the quantity field indicates the number of packs, rather than the number of things in a pack. (Thanks @richiecroker!)

This is something we've known in the past (code), but the flag had been cleared from the database. I have re-run the command that sets the flag.

The concessions tool now shows the right thing:

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