FOI-03582

Thank you for your request for information about the following: ##Request _I want to request Information under the Freedom of Information Act, regarding the prescription rates of antidepressants across Care Homes in England over the past five calendar years._ _Specifically, I am requesting the following information for each Care Home in England:_ • _The number of patients prescribed antidepressants in each of the calendar years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024_ • _The total number of patients at each home in each of those years_ • _The Care Quality Commission location ID for each of the homes_ _Please provide the information in a data file, preferably in CSV format. If my request is too broad or unclear, I would appreciate your guidance on how to refine it._ ##Response I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information you requested is not held by the NHSBSA. __Advice and assistance__ We do not collect or process information that identifies prescriptions or patients at any specific care home. Some high-level analysis relating to estimated national prescribing to care home patients aged 65 years and over, including antidepressants, is publicly available at: __Estimated prescribing patterns for care home patients aged 65 years and over__ https://nhsbsa-data-analytics.shinyapps.io/estimated-prescribing-patterns-for-care-home-patients/ This publication provides aggregated national insights but does not contain data broken down by individual care home or CQC location.