Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 8 Oct 2024 | Updated: 229 days ago
Documentation
Associated Media:
Description:
The purpose of the Drugs Patient Level Contract Monitoring (DrPLCM) is to enable the interchange, in a uniform format, of monthly patient level drug contract monitoring data between commissioners and providers of healthcare. This will ensure that contract monitoring and reporting is consistent and comparable across all commissioning organisations and their footprints.
Coverage
Spatial:
United Kingdom,England,London,Brent; United Kingdom,England,London,Ealing;
United Kingdom,England,London,Hammersmith and Fulham; United
Kingdom,England,London,Harrow; United Kingdom,England,London,Hillingdon; United
Kingdom,England,London,Hounslow; United Kingdom,England,London,Kensington and
Chelsea; United Kingdom,England,London,Westminster
Typical Age Range:
0-150
Follow Up:
> 10 Years
Pathway:
This dataset contains information related to all patients prescribed high cost
drugs in hospital. Every patient is identified by an unique patient key that can
be used to link to other Discover-NOW datasets to derive the patient pathway.
Provenance
Origin
Sources:
EPR
Collection Situations:
- Clinic
- Primary care - Clinic
- Secondary care - Accident and Emergency
- Secondary care - Outpatients
- Secondary care - In-patients
- Services
- Community
- Home
- Prescribing - Community pharmacy
- Other
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Monthly
Distribution Release Date:
18 December 2019
Start Date:
01 January 2016
Time Lag:
1-2 months
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
Jurisdictions:
GB
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
Languages:
en
Formats:
- Excel
- SQL
- Tableau
- R
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Persons
Population
29965
Count
08 December 2020
Persons
Registered population
45312
count
20 October 2022