This table summarises the datasets provisioned in the CVD-COVID-UK/COVID-IMPACT instance of the NHS England Secure Data Environment (SDE), including start and end dates and update frequency and lag, as well as key notes and links to further information.
Please see the Dataset Summary Dashboard for more information about the datasets, including descriptions, links, data dictionaries, overall counts, and data coverage and variable completeness plots, and the option to be able to compare data coverage across datasets.
Primary Care
Dataset
Start Date*
End Date
Update Frequency
Update Lag
Key notes / links to further information
GPES Data for Pandemic Planning and Research (GDPPR)
Please see Key notes / links to further information
Ongoing
Monthly
~2 months
GDPPR only includes individuals with active, current registrations at participating practices (97.5%) who were alive on or born after 1 November 2019. GDPPR also only includes a subset of ~40,000 (out of >900,000) SNOMED-CT codes that were deemed relevant to pandemic planning and research with some time-based cut-offs applied according to the code cluster. Please see the links below:
HES CC only includes neo-natal records from 2017-04
- Outpatients (OP)
2003-04
Ongoing
Monthly
~3 months
Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS)
2018-10
Ongoing
Monthly
~3 months
Uncurated low latency:
- Admitted Patient Care (APC)
2017-01
Ongoing
Monthly
~2 months
- Critical Care (CC)
2017-10
Ongoing
Monthly
~3 months
- Outpatients (OP)
2018-10
Ongoing
Monthly
~2 months
Secondary Uses Service (SUS)
2019-12
2022-09
No longer updated
NA
COVID-19 lab tests
Dataset
Start Date*
End Date
Update Frequency
Update Lag
Key notes / links to further information
Second Generation Surveillance System (SGSS)
2020-01
2024-03
No longer updated
NA
SGSS includes first Pillar 1 and 2 positive tests
Pillar 2 Antigen
2020-01
2024-02
No longer updated
NA
Pillar 2 includes positive and negative tests
Pillar 3 Antibody
2020-09
2023-03
No longer updated
NA
Pillar 3 includes positive and negative tests
COVID-19 vaccination
Dataset
Start Date*
End Date
Update Frequency
Update Lag
Key notes / links to further information
COVID-19 Vaccination Events
2020-04
Ongoing
Monthly
~2 months
COVID-19 Vaccination Adverse Reactions
2020-12
Ongoing
Monthly
~2 months
Deaths
Dataset
Start Date*
End Date
Update Frequency
Update Lag
Key notes / links to further information
Civil Registrations of Death
1993-01
Ongoing
Monthly
~3 months
ITU
Dataset
Start Date*
End Date
Update Frequency
Update Lag
Key notes / links to further information
Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC)
2020-03
Ongoing
Monthly
~2 months
ICNARC only includes admissions due to COVID-19
COVID-19 UKHSA Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) Watch (formerly COVID-19 Hospitalisation in England Surveillance System [CHESS])
2020-01
Ongoing
Monthly
~2 months
Prescribing/Dispensing
Dataset
Start Date*
End Date
Update Frequency
Update Lag
Key notes / links to further information
Medicines dispensed in primary care (NHS Business Services Authority [NHSBSA])
2018-04
Ongoing
Monthly
~1 month
Secondary care prescribed medicines (Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration [EPMA])
2019-01
2023-08
No longer updated
NA
EPMA only captures around ~15% of secondary presecribing (limited to 26 NHS hospital trusts). Data quality varies by NHS hospital trust. A new more comprehensive EPMA collection is planned for provisioning in January 2025. Please see the links below:
National Audit of Cardiac Rhythm Management (NACRM)
2018-01
2023-03
Last updated 2023-08
NA
Data may not be complete for a given financial year until several months after the end of the financial year when NHS hospital trusts might submit the data for the full year in bulk. NHFA version 4 and 5 should be combined to maximise date coverage.
National Audit of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (NAPCI)
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)
2020-09
Ongoing
Monthly
~1 month
Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS)
2019-04
Ongoing
Monthly
~1 month
MSDS is a maturing dataset with the number of deliveries captured being lower (compared to HES APC Maternity) in the earlier years of the dataset (i.e., 59% in FY2019/20, increasing to 97% in FY2022/23). Please see the link below: