The NHS COVID‑19 Reference Library describes the datasets being used in the NHS COVID‑19 Data Store, and the sources of those datasets.
Please note: the below list is not exhaustive and all planned datasets may not be included.
As more data is added to support the COVID‑19 response the list will be updated.
Aggregated view of how and where the NHS 111 online service is being used, by clinical commissioning group (CCG).
Aggregated view of calls to the NHS 111 service broken down by clinical commissioning group (CCG) and disposition code to allow for geographical and outcomes analysis. These are calls to the NHS 111 service which are specific to COVID-19.
Gives aggregate view of calls to the 999 service broken down by clinical commissioning group (CCG) and disposition code to allow for geographical and outcomes analysis.
Daily situation report submitted by all providers with a type 1 A&E department.
Number of daily triaged calls per clinical commissioning group (CCG). Contains information on all NHS 111 calls.
Absence reports as recorded in the Allocate system.
The Bridges to Health Population Segmentation dataset is an existing data asset that has been developed by NHSEI, Outcomes Based Healthcare and NHS AGCSU. This contains detail on patient comorbidity flags to support the understanding of disease prevalence, multimorbidity and modelling of patient characteristics.
Capacity information for bed availability in care homes, partial coverage of England care homes.
Mapping tables that convert codes used throughout the SUS datasets into human readable descriptions, e.g. SNOMED codes for diagnoses and outcomes.
Consultation rates for influenza-like illness (ILI) by week for England published by WHO & ECDC (https://flunewseurope.org/CountryData?country=UKG13182).
A list of countries, their location and population.
This dataset captures open source data from Public Health Scotland, as published on their online dashboard: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=5a93583e03cb4e74a1c8ff2bd8a3e89f. It contains cumulative cases by Health Board and by Council Area, as well as a time series for the cases at the national level.
This dataset captures open source data from Public Health Wales, as published on their online dashboard: https://public.tableau.com/profile/public.health.wales.health.protection#!/vizhome/RapidCOVID-19virology-Public/Summary It contains cumulative cases by Health Board and by Local Authority, as well as a time series for the cases at the national level.
From DOS (Directory of Services). More detail provided in the adult critical care bed state definitions document.
Contains epidemiological data on COVID-19 infection in persons requiring hospitalisation and intensive care unit (ICU)/high dependency unit (HDU).
Patients who have died in hospitals in England who had tested positive for COVID-19 at time of death. Includes all deaths reported up to 5pm on the previous day.
List of care homes including: care home name, address, postcode, provider, local authority, region and id Data source found here: https://www.cqc.org.uk/files/cqc-care-directory-csv-format
The outputs from the DHSC / Deloitte Digital System: the booking data for all tests for pillar 2 - regional and satellite test centres, and mobile testing units.
This is the end of day report from Satellite Test centres for number of tests completed that day by type.
The English prescribing dataset contains detailed information on prescriptions issued in England that have been dispensed in England, Wales, Scotland, Guernsey, Alderney, Jersey, and the Isle of Man.
This dataset contains data for modelling potential sickness among NHS staff.
All absences of NHS staff specifically marked as related to COVID-19, including sickness, self-isolation and special leave (e.g. carer’s leave). Contains details of where the person works, their staff group and duration of absence.
Includes number of hospital staff employed by trust, including specialty and staff group, and a count of ambulance staff. Includes some information on training to understand volumes of staff trained in ventilation.
Daily situation report on the current situation with COVID-19 patients in NHS hospitals and NHS funded hospitals.
COVID-19 SITREP for independent service providers (ISPs).
What support is being given to a patient and clinical information about that patient. Reporting completed; (i) after COVID-19 case enters a unit (ii) after 24 hours (iii) after patient leaves critical care (iv) after patient discharge.
Geographic distribution of COVID-19 cases worldwide, including infections, recoveries and fatalities which is reported on a daily basis.
This dataset provides information about DHSC key worker testing data which runs through the Randox system.
Describes the entire testing supply chain.
Location data for the following organisations: CCGs, STPs, Trusts, Independent providers, Regions and GP Practices.
Data to allow mapping between geographies, including: LSOA to UTLA, LAD to Region, LSOA to CCG to LAD, LSOA to CCG to STP and CCG to NHSER.
De-identified demographics with middle layer super output area (MSOA), lower layer super output area (LSOA) and flags such as frailty.
COVID-19 SITREP for mental health providers.
This dataset captures mortuary capacity information at trust level.
This is a dataset for the historic locations of Mobile Test Units (MTUs).
This dataset helps us understand how and where coronavirus (COVID-19) is affecting people now.
Open source data detailing estimated and projected populations for England locations based on census data.
This file contains the digital vector boundaries for Public Health England Centres in England as at December 2016.
This data is the volume of testing results from other countries. It is an open source dataset taken from https://ourworldindata.org/covid-testing
Systematic information on which details governments decision and measure taken and when they were taken. This data can help decision-makers and citizens understand the robustness of governmental responses in a consistent way, aiding efforts to fight the pandemic. The Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) systematically collects information on several different common policy responses governments have taken, scores the stringency of such measures, and aggregates these scores into a common Stringency Index. Data is collected from public sources by a team of over one hundred Oxford University students and staff from every part of the world: https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/research-projects/coronavirus- government-response-tracker
Test results from PHE SGSS (Second Generation Surveillance System). Includes Pillar 1 testing only.
Anonymised positive test results from PHE SGSS (Second Generation Surveillance System). Includes Pillar 1 testing only (swab testing in PHE labs and NHS hospitals for those with a medical need and the most critical workers and their families).
Anonymised negative test results from PHE SGSS (Second Generation Surveillance System). Contains Pillar 1 tests only (swab testing in PHE labs and NHS hospitals for those with a medical need and the most critical workers and their families).
Population data by administrative area broken down by age group and sex.
This is a list of NCP codes for consumables, and their groupings into ‘alternatives’ of similar products.
Information regarding each NHS 111 call (connect timestamp, triage timestamp, clinical advisor transfer timestamp, is ambulance called, symptom group, disposition, etc).
Referral To Treatment data reported to NHSE/I (treatment types and wait times).
This is a list of satellite testing sites.
Contains details on emergency care attendances, including A&E and urgent care/walk-in centres.
Record level registry containing condition flags for comorbidities for all patients in the master patient index. Developed using the Bridges to Health population segmentation approach.
Dataset provided by NHS Digital, containing record level information for patients that are part of the shielding programme.
Raw NHS 111 call data (1 day lag). Not linkable to other record level sources, broken down by area code.
Contains supply chain data covering inventory, orders and deliveries from national distribution centres.
Inpatient admissions data.
Attendances at outpatient clinics.
This dataset includes details of the predicted capacity of all testing sites at specific dates, based on inventory of the number of testing kits available and predicted demand.
This dataset includes details about the predicted demand for testing at each site.
Contains publicly available health-related datasets such as those published on Public Health England, NHS England Statistics and NHS Digital websites.
This dataset is a list of the number of staff in social care broken down by staff type.
