Medicines in Acute and Chronic Care Scotland (MACCS)

MACCS resource is a national individual-level medicines dataset for adults (18 years of age and older), derived from routinely collected prescribing and medicine-related data held by Public Health Scotland (PHS). It integrates data from the Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (HEPMA), Prescribing Information System (PIS), and Homecare Medicines (HCM) datasets, which are linked at the individual level to eleven other national clinical records; including Scottish Morbidity Records (SMR00/01/02/04/06), laboratory data and mortality records; using the unique NHS Scotland person identifier. Data are curated, harmonised and pre-linked within the National Safe Haven and accessed by approved researchers through secure Trusted Research Environments.