UK Pharmacy Opening Times for NHS Contracted Services

NHS Choices provides pharmacy branch opening times for NHS contracted services. The data includes standard opening hours and may contain additional schedules for bank holidays or other exceptional dates. The dataset was last updated on 2026-07-08 13:33:09.046464 and is published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze pharmacy service accessibility based on reported opening times.
• Model public health resource availability during standard and holiday periods based on the described opening schedules.
• Plan healthcare logistics and staffing by mapping pharmacy operating hours.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative NHS Choices organization.
• Includes potential differentiation between standard opening times and schedules for bank holidays or other exceptional dates.
• Has a specific last update timestamp of 2026-07-08 13:33:09.046464.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

NHS Choices

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:09.046464.

Geography

United Kingdom (implied by platform 'uk_data' and organization 'NHS Choices')