Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 8 Oct 2024 | Updated: 229 days ago
Documentation
Description:
Data forming the COVID-19 SARI-Watch data set relate to demographic, risk factor, treatment, and outcome information for patients admitted to hospital with a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis, as recorded in the PHE COVID-19 SARI-Watch Surveillance System.
SARI-Watch data are to be collected for the purposes of direct care, service monitoring, planning and research in response to the spread of COVID-19, including for the following purposes identified in the COVID-19 Directions (see below): •understanding information about patient access to health services and adult social care services as a direct or indirect result of COVID-19 and the availability and capacity of those services •monitoring and managing the response to COVID-19 by health and social care bodies and the Government, including providing information to the public about COVID-19 and its effectiveness, and information about capacity, medicines, equipment, supplies, services and the workforce within the health services and adult social care services •research and planning in relation to COVID-19, such as providing COVID-19 diagnosis.
Timescales for dissemination can be found under "Our Service Levels" at the following link: [https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-access-request-service-dars-process](https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-access-request-service-dars-process) [Standard wording](https://web.www.healthdatagateway.org/dataset/f61f116d-f732-450e-9d34-c6ae00e3fd1e)
NHS Digital will only disseminate SARI-Watch data collected from PHE where the information is linked to other information controlled by NHS Digital.
Coverage
Provenance
Origin
Sources:
EPR
Collection Situations:
Secondary care - In-patients
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Daily
Start Date:
03 December 2020
Time Lag:
Less than 1 week
Accessibility
Access
Access Service:
Once your DARS application has been approved, data will be made available either
by secure file transfer or through the Data Access Environment (DAE). Secure
file transfer: https://digital.nhs.uk/services/transfer-data-securely DAE:
https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-environment-dae
Access Request Cost:
Delivery Lead Time:
Not applicable
Jurisdictions:
GB-ENG
Data Controller:
NHS England (NHSE)
Data Processor:
NHS England (NHSE)
Usage
Data Use Requirements:
- Institution-specific restrictions
- Project-specific restrictions
- Time limit on use
Resource Creators:
NHS ENGLAND
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
ODS
Languages:
en
Formats:
- Text
- CSV