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What is the policy regarding including pack sizes in BNF codes? #41

Open sebbacon opened 6 years ago

sebbacon commented 6 years ago

In the pseudo-BNF, in general one BNF code corresponds to either a VMP (generic prescribing) or AMP (branded prescribing).

However, some MDFs include a dose size, e.g. Glyceryl Trinit_A/Spy 400mcg 180D CFF (BNF code 0206010F0AACFCF), and as such indicate an AMPP or VMPP.

It would be useful to understand the policy on when / why this happens.

In particular, it may shine a light on our puzzling over quantity. For example, we hypothesise that products which are special containers and have unique per-pack-size codes in the BNF are not affected by this issue the pack/quantity issue.

sebbacon commented 6 years ago

This tells us there are 241 such presentations: 

select * from frontend_presentation where name ~ '\d+D' limit 40;