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Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 24 Jun 2026 | Updated: 5 days ago

iCARE ICHT Nursing Dataset

Dataset

Documentation

Description:
The iCARE Nursing Rosters links routinely captured patient information to nurse staffing data from Imperial College Healthcare Trust (ICHT) Electronic Health Record. The database is used to evaluate the impact of disruption to nursing rosters on patient care and includes patient demographics, spells, Datix information, movements and staffing assigned duties, unfilled duties, unavailability, joining information and skill level.

Coverage

Spatial:
NW London (ICHT) plus out of area referrals
Typical Age Range:
18-100
Follow Up:
Continuous
Pathway:
Secondary care data from ICHT - can be linked to non-acute data for NWL population only.

Provenance

Origin

Purposes:
Care
Sources:
EPR
Collection Situations:
Secondary care - In-patients

Temporal

Accrual Periodicity:
Weekly
Start Date:
01 January 2015
Time Lag:
2-6 months

Accessibility

Access

Access Service:
We have set up a single route for applications to access Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust's (ICHT) de-identified patient data. Please read all the information to https://www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/research-and-impact/groups/icare/icare-facility/information-for-researchers/ before applying to access data. The iCARE team are happy to support applications for all types of studies requiring access to routine data, however some types of studies may require further approvals or review by other committees, for example: Transfer of data outside of the Trust Projects that involve contact with patients (e.g. clinical trials) Projects that require access to identifiable data We can provide details of these further approvals as part of the application process.
Access Request Cost:
On request
Delivery Lead Time:
1-2 months
Jurisdictions:
UK
Data Controller:
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Data Processor:
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Usage

Data Use Limitations:
General research use
Resource Creators:
This research was enabled by the iCARE Digital Collaboration Space & Secure Data Environment and used the iCARE & WSIC team and data resources. Infrastructure support for this research was provided by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR203323) and the NIHR North-West London Patient Safety Research Collaboration (NIHR NWL PSRC, Ref. NIHR204292). The iCARE database was given favourable ethics approval by the South West Central Bristol Research Ethics Committee (reference 21/SW/0120; IRAS project ID 282093). The Whole System Integrated Care (WSIC) database was given favourable ethics approval by the West Midlands Solihull Research Ethics Committee (reference 18/WM/0323; IRAS project ID 252449). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR, or the Department of Health and Social Care

Format and Standards

Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
  • SNOMED CT
  • ICD10
Conforms To:
NHS DATA DICTIONARY
Languages:
en
Formats:
Application SQL