Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 17 Jul 2025 | Updated: 143 days ago
Primary Care Appointments
Dataset
Documentation
Associated Media:
Description:
An entry in the clinical systems calendar for time allocated to a specific patient. Some examples of this are a face to face appointment, a non face to face appointment and carrying out administration tasks relating to a patient
Coverage
Spatial:
United Kingdom, England, London, Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster, Harrow,
Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hillingdon, Hounslow
Typical Age Range:
0-150
Follow Up:
1 - 10 Years
Pathway:
This dataset contains all Primary Care appointments for patients in North West
London. Each patient will be identified using an unique patient key, patient
keys can be used to link to other datasets to understand the patient pathway.
Provenance
Origin
Purposes:
Care
Sources:
- EPR
- Other
Collection Situations:
Primary care - Clinic
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Biweekly
Start Date:
01 January 2015
Time Lag:
1-2 weeks
Accessibility
Access
Access Rights:
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
hubs 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
Jurisdictions:
UK
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)
Usage
Data Use Limitations:
No restriction
Data Use Requirements:
- Collaboration required
- Institution-specific restrictions
- Project-specific restrictions
- Time limit on use
- User-specific restriction
Resource Creators:
NHS NWL ICS + Discover-NOW
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
LOCAL
Conforms To:
OTHER
Languages:
en
Formats:
- Excel
- SQL
- Tableau
- R
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Events
Count of Events
201514547
Count
29 September 2025
Persons
Count of distinct patients
4391479
Distinct Count
29 September 2025