Documentation
Description:
Organisations we collect information for include:
NHS England - information is used to collect GP payments, based on achievements under the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and the delivery of quality services
other government departments - for information about certain medical conditions and GP activity
universities and other organisations - for academic research and services such as screening programmes
The systems that we use to collect data and information include:
General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) - used to collect information and data
Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS) - to record practice participation and to process and display information
GP clinical systems - to record information at practice level
We are responsible for producing and maintaining the extract specification (business rules) to enable the extraction of these services.
Coverage
Spatial:
United Kingdom,England,London,Brent,Ealing,Hammersmith and
Fulham,Harrow,Hillingdon,Hounslow,Kensington and Chelsea,Westminster
Typical Age Range:
0-150
Follow Up:
> 10 Years
Pathway:
Primary Care Prescriptions covers all General Practices in NWL using EMIS or S1.
This provides details of supply of prescriptions, issue date, primary care
organisation that issued as well as whether it is a repeat or one-off
prescription.
Provenance
Origin
Purposes:
- Administrative
- Care
- Other
Sources:
EPR
Collection Situations:
Primary care - Clinic
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Biweekly
Distribution Release Date:
18 December 2019
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
hub"s 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
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;,;London SDE
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
- READ
- SNOMED CT
Conforms To:
LOCAL
Languages:
en
Formats:
- Excel
- SQL
- Tableau
- R
Enrichment and Linkage
Qualified Relations:
This can be linked to: Accident and Emergency Admitted Patient Care Outpatient Care High Cost drugs Patient level data Primary care events Adult soci
Derivations:
Predefined datasets are available for each long term conditions which brings activity and prescription data together. This dataset maps the patient pa
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Events
521545135
Count
10 December 2025
Persons
2399238
Count
10 December 2025
Persons
Population
1865802
Count
08 December 2020
Persons
Registered Population
2313327
count
20 October 2022