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North West London Primary Care Events Data (NWL PCE)
Dataset
Summary
Population Size:
2644802
Publication Date:
18 December 2019
Documentation
Associated Media:
Description:
Organisations we collect information for include:
NHS England - information is used to collect GP payments, based on achievements under the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and the delivery of quality services
other government departments - for information about certain medical conditions and GP activity
universities and other organisations - for academic research and services such as screening programmes
The systems that we use to collect data and information include:
General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) - used to collect information and data
Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS) - to record practice participation and to process and display information
GP clinical systems - to record information at practice level
We are responsible for producing and maintaining the extract specification (business rules) to enable the extraction of these services.
Interaction between a patient and the practice they are registered to
All Appointments data
All clinical diagnostics data
All administrative activity related to patients communication with practice
All test results related to patients
All screening information related to patients
In Pipeline:
Not available
Coverage
Spatial:
- United Kingdom
- England
- London
- Brent
- Ealing
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Harrow
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Westminster
Typical Age Range Min:
0
Typical Age Range Max:
150
Material Type:
None/not available
Follow Up:
> 10 Years
Pathway:
The data in this table relates to primary care events which is any interaction
between the patient and their registered general practice. All patients are
identified by an unique patient key which can be linked with all other datasets
available in the Discover-NOW catalogue to understand the patient pathway
Provenance
Origin
Purpose:
- Administrative
- Care
- Other
Dataset Type:
Health and disease
Dataset Sub-Type:
Not applicable
Source:
EPR
Collection Source:
Primary care - Clinic
Image Contrast:
Not stated
Temporal
Publishing Frequency:
Biweekly
Distribution Release Date:
18 December 2019
Start Date:
01 January 2015
Time Lag:
1-2 weeks
Accessibility
Access
Access Rights:
Access Service Category:
TRE/SDE
Access Service:
Researchers will have access to a VDI environment with a specific username and
password. The researchers will get access to the datasets that is present in the
hub's catalogue and would be able to carry out their research within the safe
haven. There are restrictions applied which prevents the researchers from taking
data out of the safe haven, once the research/analysis is completed the admin
team will need to be contacted for taking the analysis off the safe haven
Access Request Cost:
In Progress
Delivery Lead Time:
1-2 months
Data Controller:
Joint data controller model across North West London
Data Processor:
North West London Integrated Care Board (NWL ICB) North East London Integrated
Care Board (NEL ICB) North of England Commissioning Support Unit (NECS)
Jurisdiction:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Usage
Data Use Limitation:
No restriction
Data Use Requirements:
- Collaboration required
- Institution-specific restrictions
- Project-specific restrictions
- Time limit on use
- User-specific restriction
Resource Creator:
- NHS NWL ICS
- London SDE
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Scheme:
- READ
- SNOMED CT
Conforms To:
LOCAL
Language:
English
Format:
- Excel
- SQL
- Tableau
- R
Enrichment and Linkage
Investigations:
Publication About Dataset:
Bottleet al. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2020) 20:71 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-020-1082-7
Derived From
PID
Title
URL
Long Term Conditions Electronic Frailty Index Q-Admissions Patient Segments Risk Segments
Linkable Datasets
PID
Title
URL
Each patient will be identified by an unique patient key that can be used to link to all other datasets available within Discover-NOW hub
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Persons
Registered population
2737753
count
20 October 2022
Persons
Population
2644802
Count
08 December 2020
Origin
Name:
NWL Data Catalogue