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.
NHS
This SITREP is to be used as part of the monitoring and evaluation for the 111 First project.
NHS
Used to fill in gaps in other 111 collections.
NHS
Data covering 111 online contacts and outcomes.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
Aggregated view of how and where the NHS 111 online service is being used, by clinical commissioning group (CCG).
NHS England and NHS Improvement
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.
NHS
This is a data set to derive 52 week waiters for Referral to Treatment (RTT) Patient Treatment List (PTL).
NHS England and NHS Improvement
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.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
Daily situation report submitted by all providers with a type 1 A&E department.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
Number of daily triaged calls per clinical commissioning group (CCG). Contains information on all NHS 111 calls.
Allocate system
Absence reports as recorded in the Allocate system.
NHS
Data related to ambulance collections including number of incidences and how incidents were responded to.
Open source
Mobility time series for driving, walking, and public transport calculated by a relative volume of directions requests per country/region, sub-region or city compared to a baseline volume on 13 January 2020.
NHS
Data on average length of stay for non-COVID-19 patients, to support recovery of services.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
The Bridges to Health Population Segmentation dataset is an existing data asset that has been developed by NHSEI and Outcomes Based Healthcare. This contains comorbidity flags to support the understanding of disease prevalence, multimorbidity and modelling of characteristics.
Public Health England
Monthly activity data, including 2 week urgent referrals and first definitive treatment data, by tumour type.
NHS
Aggregate and non-aggregate cancer waiting times data, including the faster diagnosis standard and treatment data.
NE CSU (NHSE)
Capacity information for bed availability in care homes, partial coverage of England care homes.
CQC
COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 deaths at the individual care home level by date.
Open source
A dataset for mapping CCGs to NHS111 area and then to STP.
Open source
Mapping tables that convert codes used throughout the SUS datasets into human readable descriptions, e.g. SNOMED codes for diagnoses and outcomes.
NHS
Use to derive community discharge metric (Number of patients who were discharged by 17:00 as a proportion of all patients who met the criteria to be discharged).
NHS Digital
Data regarding NHS-funded community services.
WHO & ECDC
Consultation rates for influenza-like illness (ILI) by week for England published by WHO & ECDC (flunewseurope.org/).
Open source
A list of countries, their location and population.
Public Health Scotland
This dataset captures open source data from Public Health Scotland, as published on their online dashboard: www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-daily-data-for-scotland/ It contains cumulative cases by Health Board and by Local Authority, as well as a time series for the cases at the national level.
Public Health Wales
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.
Directory of Services (DoS)
From DOS (Directory of Services). More detail provided in the adult critical care bed state definitions document.
Public Health England
Contains epidemiological data on COVID-19 infection in persons requiring hospitalisation and intensive care unit (ICU) / high dependency unit (HDU).
NHS England and NHS Improvement
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.
NHS
Data regarding new emerging variants, to help give early warning of the potential impact and the protection offered by different vaccinations.
Open source
List of care homes including: care home name, address, postcode, provider, local authority, region and identifier.
NHS Supply Chain
Forecast of demand for critical care/intensive care units (ICU) consumables and equipment purchases.
NHS
This is a data set to map historic NHS providers to current providers, in particular used where providers have merged.
NHS
Spell attendance data by provider.
DHSC
This data includes the inventory at Daventry DHL for personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies specifically used at testing sites. The data set includes the item name, item description, and quantity count at end of day.
Deloitte
The outputs form the DHSC / Deloitte Digital System: the booking data for all tests for pillar 2 - regional and satellite test centres, and mobile testing units.
ONS
Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)/deprivation index data, split by lower layer super output area (LSOA).
NHS England and NHS Improvement
Contains adjusted and unadjusted summarised SUS data used for business planning model inputs.
NHS Supply Chain
This contains details of product requests by trusts from the suspended product lists including the details of a delivery point of contact at the trust.
NHS Digital
Data regarding diabetes, includes the National Diabetes Audit (NDA) and Diabetes Prevention Programme (DPP).
NHS Digital
Data regarding diagnostic imaging tests carried out on NHS patients, extracted from local Radiology Information Systems (RISs).
NHS
Data regarding diagnostic waiting lists (including endoscopy, physiological measures and imaging).
NHS England and NHS Improvement
This is a situation report of all discharges from hospitals and where they have been discharged to (e.g. care home, home, hospice etc.).
NHS England and NHS Improvement
The monthly diagnostics collection collects data on waiting times and activity for 15 key diagnostic tests and procedures.
NHS
Workforce data from e-rostering systems to enhance workforce availability analysis.
NHS
Aggregate and non-aggregate Electronic Referral Service data.
DHSC
This is the end of day report from Satellite Test centres for number of tests completed that day by type.
NHS BSA (open source)
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.
Deloitte
The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system includes inventory levels for the testing distribution centre (Daventry DHL) as well as the testing labs.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
This dataset contains data for modelling potential sickness among NHS staff.
NHS Electronic staff record (ESR) system
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.
NHS
Data regarding monthly headcount from the electronic staff record (ESR).
NHS England and NHS Improvement
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.
External
Reference data on Four Seasons Care Homes (FSCH).
Open source
These Community Mobility Reports chart aggregated, anonymised movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of places. The most granular level of detail available is the city level.
NHS
Includes both GP contract services data and GP appointment data. GP appointment data is used to surface GP appointment metrics, including both face to face and virtual. GP contract data is used for learning disability registers and health checks.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
This data set captures the number of COVID-19 cases in the prison setting.
HCAI
The Healthcare associated infections (HCAI) collection provides grouped numbers of confirmed nosocomial COVID-19 ingestions per trust on a weekly basis.
Deloitte
This data provides a summary of historical SITREP response data including their personal protective equipment (PPE) inventory, testing kit inventory, and personnel. This helps to form a complete picture of testing site demand.
NHS
The capacity tracker captures information related to COVID-19 from care homes and home care settings.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
Daily situation report on the current situation with COVID-19 patients in NHS hospitals and NHS funded hospitals.
Open source
Data from the daily press briefing pack, capturing critical care bed usage and the active cases in hospital in the devolved administrations.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
COVID-19 SITREP for independent service providers (ISPs).
NHS
Data regarding integrated urgent care, used to monitor the effectiveness of fully integrated urgent care services through the NHS 111 single entry point. Acts as a replacement to previous 111 data flows.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
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.
NHS Providers
This is a stocktake of intensive care units (ICU) consumable items filled in twice weekly by trusts.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
Geographic distribution of COVID-19 cases worldwide, including infections, recoveries and fatalities which is reported on a daily basis.
NHS Supply Chain
Data received from national distribution centres including Haydock, Daventry and Clipper.
IPSOS
This is a survey that is being completed by IPSOS where they phone different care homes and ask various questions about the numbers of residents, amount of potential personal protective equipment (PPE), COVID-19 burden, etc.
NPEX/Randox
This dataset provides information about DHSC key worker testing data which runs through the Randox system.
Deloitte
Describes the entire testing supply chain.
Various
Location data for the following organisations: CCGs, STPs, Trusts, Independent providers, Regions and GP Practices.
Open source
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.
NHS
Lookup table between NHS trust IDs and Clipper customer IDs.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
De-identified demographics with middle layer super output area (MSOA), lower layer super output area (LSOA) and flags such as frailty.
NHS Digital
Data regarding NHS-funded maternity services, relating to the mother and baby/babies.
NHS
Aggregate and non-aggregate mental health and learning disability data used for the recovery of services.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
COVID-19 SITREP for mental health providers.
Independent service providers (ISPs)
Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism SITREP collected from Independent Service Providers.
DHSC
Contact information for the owner or local authority which runs a Mobile testing unit (MTU) testing location.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
Data containing age-specific assumptions including infection/hospitalisation distributions, population estimates, amongst others.
DHSC
A model of testing figures and requirements going forward designed to inform testing policy.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
The monthly activity return collects data relating to elective and non-elective inpatient admissions (FCEs), outpatient referrals and attendances for first consultant outpatient appointments.
NHS Estates Division
This dataset captures mortuary capacity information at trust level.
DHSC
This is a dataset for the historic locations of Mobile Test Units (MTUs).
NHS
Booking data from the COVID-19 national booking system for vaccinations.
NHS Supply Chain
Personal protective equipment (PPE) data collected on behalf of DHSC for stock management processes.
NHS Supply Chain
Details of products requests by trusts from the suspended product lists – this includes the details of a delivery point of contact at the trust.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
Clinical incident data from the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS).
NHS
This is the volumetric data from NHS Business Services Authority (BSA) that states how many people have been notified of their test results. It represents the end of the chain of the testing pipeline.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
This dataset helps us understand how and where coronavirus (COVID-19) is affecting people now.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
This is aggregate/anonymised workforce data, including temporary and bank staff employed in the NHS.
NOMIS
Open source data detailing estimated and projected populations for England locations based on census data.
Public Health England
Contains aggregated daily COVID-19 cases by age bands split into pillar 1, 2 and total; all at national level. Also contains aggregated daily COVID-19 tests by gender and age bands, provided at local government district level. Finally, aggregated daily COVID-19 deaths by gender and age bands at local government district level.
Public Health England
Includes management information describing the number of care homes reporting a suspected or confirmed outbreak of COVID-19 to PHE, together with the cumulative proportion of all care homes that have reported an outbreak. Figures are broken down by local authority, government office region and PHE centre.
ONS
Aggregate and non-aggregate death/mortality data, from the office for National Statistics (ONS).
NHS England and NHS Improvement
Aggregated data extract detailing NHS 111 calls.
NHS
This is data set contains the counts of online and video consultations.
Open source
This file contains the digital vector boundaries for Public Health England Centres in England as at December 2016.
Open source
This data is the volume of testing results from other countries. It is an open source dataset taken from https://ourworldindata.org/covid-testing.
Regional EPRR teams
Situation reports from trusts and regions, including RAG ratings (red, amber or green) of patient services, business continuity plans in place or suspended capabilities, as well as a predicted future view of the situation.
Oxford University
Systematic information which details the government’s decision and measures taken and when those measures 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.
NHS Digital
Data regarding pulse oximeter use by patients as part of the NHS response to COVID-19.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
Holds data from a survey conducted to gather information on ventilator equipment across the NHS. This was completed by Trust representatives on a per hospital basis and captures data about ventilator type, make, model, ownership and quantity.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
Details the oxygen and ventilation system capacity.
NHS
This is personal protective equipment (PPE) purchase order data.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
This data set captures personal protective equipment (PPE) information at hospital level, covering stock quantity, used quantity and RAG rating of each set of PPE items (aprons, body bags, clinical waste bags, coveralls, detergent, eye protection, visors, gloves, hand hygiene, masks, swabs).
NHS Supply Chain
This data set is a list of potential personal protective equipment (PPE) orders and an assessment around whether this product should be ordered or rejected.
Suppliers
This is a list of potential personal protective equipment (PPE) products, each unique to a specific supplier.
Public Health England
PHE recorded care home outbreaks at the individual care home level. Records when each care home had outbreaks and how many cases.
Public Health England
Death data from PHE, which is different from COVID-19 Patient Notification System (CPNS) and Office for National Statistics (ONS) death data.
Public Health England
Test results from PHE SGSS (Second Generation Surveillance System). Includes Pillar 1 testing only.
Public Health England
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).
Public Health England
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).
External
Antibody tests results used to support the Vivaldi care home study.
Open source
Population data by administrative area broken down by age group and sex.
NHS
Patient level data collection, from providers of post-COVID assessment clinics.
Public Health England
Full feed of COVID-19 tests reported into Second Generation Surveillance System (SGSS), prior to deduplication logic being applied by PHE containing all unique tests.
NHS Supply Chain
This is a list of NCP codes for consumables, and their groupings into ‘alternatives’ of similar products.
DHSC
This system is used to schedule test sites to power the backend of the gov.uk portal. This is to power testing operations.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
Information regarding each NHS 111 call (connect timestamp, triage timestamp, clinical advisor transfer timestamp, is ambulance called, symptom group, disposition, etc).
NHS England and NHS Improvement
Referral To Treatment data reported to NHSE/I (treatment types and wait times).
DHSC
This is a list of satellite testing sites.
NHS
Eligible population and uptake data regarding screening, including bowel and breast screening.
NHS Digital
Contains details on emergency care attendances, including A&E and urgent care/walk-in centres.
NHS Digital
Dataset provided by NHS Digital, containing record level information for patients that are part of the shielding programme.
DHSC
SPI-M is producing forecasting numbers on a regional level around metrics ranging from new and newly confirmed patients in hospitals, bed occupancies and ICU occupancies.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
Raw NHS 111 call data (1 day lag). Not linkable to other record level sources, broken down by area code.
NHS Supply Chain
Contains supply chain data covering inventory, orders and deliveries from national distribution centres.
NHS Digital
Admitted patient data, including details of admissions, episodes and critical care activity. Includes a daily and monthly flow of the data.
NHS Digital
Appointments at outpatient clinics, includes a daily and monthly flow of the data.
Placers
This data is modelling the demand for each test centre.
DHSC
This data set is part of the daily reporting from regional testing centres (RTCs). It includes personal protective equipment (PPE), associated items and test kits.
DHL/Deloitte/NHS
This data includes invites, orders and distribution of testing kits, including lateral flow tests.
Deloitte
Testing personal protective equipment (PPE) inventory, burn rates, and demand forecasts. The data included contains: the inventory of PPE stock in each testing location, the utilisation rate of PPE at each location, forecast demand and opening and closing stock projections for each day.
DHSC
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.
DHSC
This dataset includes details about the predicted demand for testing at each site.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
Contains publicly available health-related datasets such as those published on Public Health England, NHS England Statistics and NHS Digital websites.
NHS
Data on Flu and COVID-19 immunisations/vaccinations, including data on metrics, stock transfer, consumables, inventory, healthcare workers, ethnicity and different cohorts.
NHS
Data on the weekly forecasted number of vaccines needed in different regions, split up by cohort type.
DHSC
From each supplier and country.
Royal Voluntary Service & St John Ambulance
Data regarding the volunteer register, and deployment, for vaccination roles. Includes Royal Voluntary Service (RVS) and St John Ambulance.
NHS
The waiting list of patients expecting to receive treatment.
NHS
Aggregate weekly data, supplied by NHS trusts, with inequalities data added. Includes cancer activity, total activity for imaging and endoscopy, elective admissions and outpatient data.
NHS Providers
Aggregate data from a new NHS Weekly SITREP from all NHS Providers (Elective activity, Outpatients, Cancer and Diagnostic tests).
https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/
This dataset is a list of the number of staff in social care broken down by staff type.
Swansea University
The COVID-19 Symptom Tracker was designed by doctors and scientists at King’s College London, Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals working in partnership with ZOE Global Ltd – a health science company. This de-identified dataset is currently hosted by the SAIL Databank at Swansea University here: https://data.ukserp.ac.uk/Asset/View/39.
