Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 3 Jun 2025 | Updated: 187 days ago
SAHSU - NHS England - General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) Data
Dataset
Documentation
Associated Media:
Description:
This Dataset can only be used for COVID-19-related projects.
The General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) is NHS England's daily collection of structured and coded data from GP medical records in England, supporting vital health and social care planning, commissioning, public health, and research. Introduced under the General Practice Data for Planning and Research Directions 2021, the new data collection reduces the burden on GP practices and enables better use of data for improved patient outcomes and service delivery.
GPDPR data is used to understand the causes of ill health, improve care, develop new treatments, and plan NHS services more effectively. It supports essential functions such as tracking disease trends, supporting clinical trials, and allocating services and resources based on population need.
The data collected includes demographic details (such as age, sex, and ethnicity), symptoms, allergies, observations, diagnoses, test results, medications, referrals, and immunisations.
SAHSU holds a data sharing agreement with NHS England and has access to a restricted subset of variables from the full dataset.
The dataset may be internally linkable with SAHSU's environmental datasets, including air pollution and green space.
Coverage
Spatial:
England
Typical Age Range:
0-150
Follow Up:
Other
Provenance
Origin
Purposes:
Care
Sources:
Other
Collection Situations:
- Primary care - Referrals
- Primary care - Clinic
- Primary care - Out of hours
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Static
Start Date:
01 January 2020
End Date:
31 May 2022
Time Lag:
More than 6 months
Accessibility
Access
Access Rights:
Access Service:
Certified Secure Research Environment
Access Request Cost:
Variable
Delivery Lead Time:
Variable
Jurisdictions:
GB-ENG
Data Controller:
Imperial College London
Data Processor:
Imperial College London
Usage
Data Use Limitations:
Research-specific restrictions
Data Use Requirements:
- Collaboration required
- Ethics approval required
- Geographical restrictions
- Institution-specific restrictions
- Not for profit use
- Publication required
- Project-specific restrictions
- User-specific restriction
- Disclosure control
Resource Creators:
Small Area Health Statistics Unit
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
LOCAL
Conforms To:
LOCAL
Languages:
en
Formats:
csv