FOI-03244

Request You asked us: Please can you provide me with ODS Code (also known as the F-Code) of all community pharmacies that are currently active in England and their corresponding GPhC Registration number? If it helps in locating this data, the previous NHS business definitions data dictionary suggested that this data was help in relation to pharmacy premises. The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 7 October 2025. We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000. Our response Under Section 21 of the FOIA we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you. The information you requested is available: Organisation Data Service (ODS) codes, or F-codes, for pharmacies are publicly accessible through the Consolidated Pharmaceutical List dataset on our NHSBSA Open Data Portal. Please see the link below: https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/consolidated-pharmaceutical-list This information is also accessible on the NHS Organisation Data Service website, for example, through the edispensary report: https://www.odsdatasearchandexport.nhs.uk/ Pharmacists are not directly linked to F-codes in our system; therefore, General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) registration numbers are not included. However, GPhC numbers can be found through the GPhC Registers: https://www.pharmacyregulation.org/registers Please see the following link to view the section 21 in full - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/21 Publishing this response Please note that this information will be published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at: https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-03244 Your personal details will be removed from the published response.