Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 8 Oct 2024 | Updated: 555 days ago
Summary
DOI Name:
10.48329/f2cm-t593
Documentation
Associated Media:
Description:
CPRD Aurum linked Hospital Episode Statistics Accident and Emergency (HES A&E) data consists of individual records of patient care administered in the accident and emergency setting in England. These data are a subset of national A&E data collected by NHS England to monitor the national standard that 95% of patients attending A&E should wait no longer than 4 hours from arrival to admission, transfer or discharge. A&E data are submitted by A&E providers of all types in England. Data collected includes details about patients’ attendance, outcomes of attendance, waiting times, referral source, A&E diagnosis, A&E treatment (drugs prescribed not recorded), A&E investigations and Health Resource Group.
HES A&E may be used to clarify the health care pathway, to quantity health resource use and costs in the emergency setting, and to assess variations in the uptake of emergency services over time.
Only CPRD Aurum has been linked in the March 2026 update. As there were no currently contributing practices in England in CPRD Gold, patients were not eligible for linkage. The latest linked data available for CPRD Gold is the set 21 data. Further information is available at https://www.cprd.com/data/linked-data.
Coverage
Spatial:
United Kingdom,England
Typical Age Range:
0-115
Follow Up:
1 - 10 Years
Pathway:
Secondary care
Provenance
Origin
Purposes:
Care
Sources:
EPR
Collection Situations:
Secondary care - Accident and Emergency
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Quarterly
Distribution Release Date:
27 March 2026
Start Date:
04 January 2007
End Date:
30 March 2020
Time Lag:
More than 6 months
Accessibility
Access
Access Rights:
Access Service:
Access to CPRD data, including UK Primary Care Data, and linked data such as
Hospital Episode Statistics, is subject to protocol approval via CPRD’s Research
Data Governance (RDG) Process. Independent scientific and patient advice is
provided by Expert Review Committees (ERCs) and the Central Advisory Committee
(CAC): https://www.cprd.com/research-applications
Access Request Cost:
Delivery Lead Time:
Variable
Jurisdictions:
GB-ENG
Data Controller:
Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)
Data Processor:
CPRD
Usage
Data Use Limitations:
- General research use
- No linkage
- Research-specific restrictions
- Research use only
Data Use Requirements:
- Geographical restrictions
- Institution-specific restrictions
- Project-specific restrictions
- Time limit on use
- User-specific restriction
Resource Creators:
NHS Digital
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
- ICD10
- ODS
- OPCS4
- SNOMED CT
Conforms To:
LOCAL
Languages:
en
Formats:
Tab delimited text
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Persons
Number of CPRD Aurum patients matched to single HES identifier
36722301
Count
27 March 2026