Coronavirus data services updates

Flu immunisation will be critical to protect those patients who are most vulnerable and to support the health and care system during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

NHS Digital is helping the NHS to maximise the uptake of flu vaccinations by developing new systems and data flows. This will include providing data safely and securely to support a national flu vaccination ‘call and recall’ service. 

Find out more about our flu vaccination work.

The social care data collection for pandemic planning and research collection will provide controlled access to a range of existing data to support service planning, outcome monitoring and research during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. 

This collection ended on 31 March 2021.

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is having major effects on how GP practices manage their workload, following requests from users we are releasing this management information to provide greater transparency and more timely data from our General Practice Appointments Data collection. This release includes data from the week beginning the 2nd March 2020 to the latest data available - the intention is to publish this data weekly to support primary care services during COVID-19.

Learn more about the GP appointments  weekly publication.  

To support the response to the coronavirus outbreak, NHS Digital has been legally directed to collect and analyse healthcare information about patients, including from their GP record, for the duration of the coronavirus emergency period. See GPES data for pandemic planning and research (COVID-19) for more information.

NHS Digital’s Trusted Research Environment (TRE) service for England provides approved researchers with access to essential linked, de-identified health data to quickly answer COVID-19 related research questions.

NHS Data Model and Dictionary Service guidance for recording activity relating to coronavirus (COVID-19) activity. 

Find out more about recording activity relating to coronavirus (COVID-19)

This data set provides potential Coronavirus (COVID-19) triage information for NHS Pathways telephony data and 111 online data in England. This data has been released to inform the public and support the health and social care system in planning.  The data will be published daily and will be collected via 111 and 999 telephony, and through the 111 online system.  

Find out more about the the supporting dashboard and data.

The Organisation Data Service (ODS) is seeking to minimise any change activity that could impact NHS operations during the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic..

Learn more about these changes.

We are pausing the collection and publication of some further data collections related to NHS England statistics, to release NHS capacity to support the response to coronavirus (COVID-19). Check individual data collections to find out if a specific collection is affected, and find more information including a list of collections and releases affected on the NHS England website under the heading COVID-19 and the production of statistics.

We are supporting Public Health England’s Syndromic Surveillance Service in strengthening and enhancing our daily ECDS feed to better track hospital episodes relating to breathing difficulties such as pneumonia and other COVID-19 symptoms.

Read the latest guidance on recording ECDS instances of COVID-19.

The Organisation Data Service has taken the decision to delay the introduction of planned new ANANA format organisation codes that were scheduled to be allocated to new records created from 1 April 2020. This aims to remove some non-critical activity from the system while it responds to COVID-19.

Read more about the decision to delay implementation.

We are prioritising requests for data in respect of COVID-19 as urgent requirements. This means that other applications or enquiries may be delayed. We are also prioritising applications for data agreements that are about to expire, or where organisational changes are taking place. 

If you have any immediate concerns, please contact your case officer directly or email [email protected] referencing DARS in the subject field.

Changes have been made to the release cycle for the UK SNOMED CT Clinical Edition in order to respond quickly to the recording needs in the health and care records.

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) emergency codes designated for COVID-19 have been confirmed by the World Health Organisation and NHS Digital have published the codes and guidance to hospital coding departments for use with immediate effect.

Regular updates on clinical guidance, terms, SNOMED CT releases, ICD-10 and OPCS-4 are brought together on COVID-19 information standards.   

Due to pressures resulting from the coronavirus (COVID-19) response, the following services have been suspended until further notice: 

• charity letter forwarding
• death registration enquiries 

Any service requests received will be held unprocessed.

Find out more about the national back office tracing service.

NHS England and Improvement published a letter on Thursday 19 March 2020  which confirmed that calculations for QOF 2019/2020 will be made as usual.

This data submission will be followed by a piece of analysis to understand the impact of COVID-19 and a one-off financial adjustment for practices who earned less in 2019/20 than 2018/19 as a result of COVID19 activities.  Learn more about QOF payments 2019/2020.  

Data Provision Notice for the collection of information from the Child Protection - Information Sharing (CP-IS) system extract to NHS England for Coronavirus (COVID-19) child health safeguarding actions.