Documentation
Description:
Health Protection Scotland (HPS), part of Public Health Scotland (PHS), is leading the Enhanced Surveillance of COVID-19 in Scotland (ESoCiS) programme on behalf of Scottish Government gathering a wide variety of data about COVID-19 from a range of sources, to learn more about the virus and gain an understanding of how it is spreading through the population in Scotland.
Data is via ECOSS (health protection system) and the Test and Protect datasets. NHS Digital have been providing a feed of the UK Gov data into NSS IT which then populates the systems for a full picture.
Coverage
Spatial:
United Kingdom,Scotland
Typical Age Range:
0-150
Follow Up:
Unknown
Pathway:
Secondary care records for Tayside and Fife
Provenance
Origin
Purposes:
Disease registry
Collection Situations:
Other
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Static
Distribution Release Date:
18 May 2022
Start Date:
17 June 2021
End Date:
09 September 2021
Time Lag:
Not applicable
Accessibility
Access
Access Rights:
Access Service:
HIC has implemented a remote-access Trusted Research Environment to protect data
confidentiality, satisfy public concerns about data loss and reassure Data
Controllers about HIC’s secure management and processing of their data. Data is
not released externally to data users for analysis on their own computers but
placed on a server at HIC, within a restricted, secure IT environment, where the
data user is given secure remote access to carry out their analysis. Full
details are available via the following link:
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/hic/safe-haven
Access Request Cost:
Quotation available on request
Delivery Lead Time:
Not applicable
Jurisdictions:
GB-SCT
Data Controller:
Local NHS Boards
Data Processor:
University of Dundee, Health Informatics Centre
Usage
Data Use Limitations:
General research use
Data Use Requirements:
Disclosure control
Resource Creators:
NHS Fife & NHS Tayside
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
LOCAL
Languages:
en
Formats:
Database
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Events
72,582 events in the dataset
72582
count
18 May 2022
Persons
20,058 persons in the dataset
20058
COUNT
18 May 2022