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North West London Integrated Care Record (NWL ICR)

Dataset

Summary

Population Size:
2653250
Publication Date:
30 January 2020

Documentation

Description:
This dataset is a merged dataset of the existing datasets already published. This dataset contains all the columns made available within the individual datasets but as one large amalgamated dataset. This provides a longitudinal linked dataset of NWL patients to support pathway analysis, population health analysis and research analytics that requires data from various care settings.
In Pipeline:
Not available

Coverage

Spatial:
  • United Kingdom
  • England
  • London
  • Brent
  • Ealing
  • Hammersmith and Fulham
  • Harrow
  • Hillingdon
  • Hounslow
  • Westminster
  • Kensington and Chelsea
Typical Age Range Min:
0
Typical Age Range Max:
150
Material Type:
None/not available
Follow Up:
> 10 Years
Pathway:
This dataset is representative of the patient pathway as we have data from all care settings (primary care, acute, mental health, community and social care). We also have data for all disease areas and hence able to track the pathway for all diseases.

Provenance

Origin

Purpose:
Research cohort
Dataset Type:
Health and disease
Dataset Sub-Type:
Not applicable
Source:
EPR
Collection Source:
  • Clinic
  • Primary care - Clinic
  • Secondary care - Accident and Emergency
  • Secondary care - Outpatients
  • Secondary care - In-patients
  • Services
  • Community
  • Home
  • Prescribing - Community pharmacy
Image Contrast:
Not stated

Temporal

Publishing Frequency:
Monthly
Distribution Release Date:
30 January 2020
Start Date:
31 March 2015
Time Lag:
1-2 months

Accessibility

Access

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:
  • LOCAL
  • OPCS4
  • READ
  • SNOMED CT
  • NHS NATIONAL CODES
  • ODS
  • ICD10
Conforms To:
  • LOCAL
  • NHS DATA DICTIONARY
  • OTHER
Language:
English
Format:
  • Excel
  • SQL
  • Tableau
  • R

Enrichment and Linkage

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
This can be linked to: Accident and Emergency Outpatient Care High Cost drugs Patient level data Primary care events Primary care prescriptions Adult social care Mental Health Community

Observations

Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Events
Total events, all population
685541152
Count
02 November 2022
Persons
All Registered population
4321099
count
02 November 2022
Persons
Population
2653250
Count
08 December 2020