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North West London Acute Patient level Data (NWL Acute PLD)

Dataset

Summary

Population Size:
1720459
Publication Date:
18 December 2019

Documentation

Description:
SLAM is comprehensive transactional commissioning toolkit, showing CCGs and providers including planned and actual reports to support NHS commissioning (tariff, non-tariff & block contracts). Acute PLD shows A&E, OP & IP data for NWL contracted providers.
In Pipeline:
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:
This dataset contains all accident & emergency, inpatient and outpatient activity related to NWL patient population. Each patient would be identifiable using an unique patient key that can be used to link to other datasets, this will help track the patient pathway

Provenance

Origin

Purpose:
  • Administrative
  • Care
  • Other
Dataset Type:
  • Health and disease
  • Treatments/Interventions
Dataset Sub-Type:
Not applicable
Source:
EPR
Collection Source:
  • Secondary care - Accident and Emergency
  • Secondary care - Outpatients
  • Secondary care - In-patients
Image Contrast:
Not stated

Temporal

Publishing Frequency:
Monthly
Distribution Release Date:
18 December 2019
Start Date:
01 January 2016
Time Lag:
1-2 months

Accessibility

Access

Access Service Category:
TRE/SDE
Access Service:
Researchers will have access to a secure workspace via an airlocked Azure Virtual Desktop with a specific username and password. Researchers will get specific access to a relevant subset of the datasets that are present in the SDE catalogue for their project and will be able to carry out their research within the safe haven. There are restrictions applied which prevent the researchers from taking data out of the safe haven. Once the research is completed the London SDE admin team will need to be contacted for any requests to egress summary analysis out of the safe haven which will not breach 5 safe standards.
Access Request Cost:
In Progress
Delivery Lead Time:
1-2 months
Data Controller:
Joint data controller model across London: North Central London Integrated Care System (NCL ICS), Central London Integrated Care System (CL ICS), East London Integrated Care System (EL ICS), West London Integrated Care System (WL ICS), South London Integrated Care System (SL ICS)
Data Processor:
The data processor for the London Secure Data Environment (SDE) is primarily managed by OneLondon, a partnership of London's five integrated care systems (ICSs) and three health innovation networks.
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
Conforms To:
LOCAL
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\nElectronic Frailty Index\nQ-Admissions \nPatient Segments\nRisk Segments

Linkable Datasets

PID
Title
URL
This can be linked to: Accident and Emergency Admitted Patient Care Outpatient Care 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
23508251
Count
10 December 2025
Persons
1720459
Count
10 December 2025
Persons
Registered population
1855218
count
20 October 2022
Persons
Population
2325220
Count
28 February 2021