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Production schedule

Here are our publication release dates, along with information about the different types of release that we publish.

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ODS release schedule

This table gives the dates for the upcoming ODS publication releases. 

The cut-off date is the deadline for submitting new site code requests to ODS for them to be included in the following release. Any codes allocated after the cut-off will not be published until the subsequent release.

We provide 2 types of releases:

Quarterly

For February, May, August and November we produce a full quarterly release, containing the full suite of our products, changes made since the previous reduced release, changes made since the previous full release and comprehensive lists of all organisations.

The full release also contains data from our counterparts within the various home countries, along with data received from the ONS.

Monthly

For the remaining months, we produce a reduced release which will only contain the changes made since the previous release. This type of release excludes any updates to Home Countries data and ONS data.

Any future changes to this schedule will be publicised three months in advance of it coming into effect. This notification will happen via the ODS quarterly newsletter and within a news item published on the ODS home page.

 

Month Cut-off date Release date Release type
November 15 November 2023 24 November 2023 Full
December 6 December 2023 15 December 2023 Reduced
January 17 January 2024 26 January 2024 Reduced
February 14 February 2024 23 February 2024 Full
March 13 March 2024 28 March 2024 Reduced
April 17 April 2024 26 April 2024 Reduced
May 15 May 2024 31 May 2024 Full
June 17 June 2024 28 June 2024 Reduced
July 17 July 2024 26 July 2024 Reduced
August 14 August 2024 30 August 2024 Full
September 17 September 2024 27 September 2024 Reduced
October 16 October 2024 25 October 2024 Reduced
November 13 November 2024 29 November 2024 Full
December 3 December 2024 13 December 2024 Reduced

Users requesting code updates to be visible within systems that are not updated directly through the release files, such as NHSmail, HSCN (N3) should note that these dates correspond to the publication of our data through the TRUD service, and may have no bearing on when you will see updates in these systems.

If detail of the related system for which the change is intended is provided within the request, then a suitable time frame will be provided upon completion of the request as to when the update will be visible.

If you have any queries, please contact the appropriate helpdesk.

Publication of ICB changes

Integrated care boards (ICBs) become established as statutory bodies from July 2022. The following release dates are now confirmed:

1 July 2022

Changes will be visible within ODS distribution functions as shown below.

ODS API at 2am

ODS Portal at 4.30am

ODS DataPoint at 6.30am

7 July 2022

CSV weekly file (published via TRUD as part of the standard business as usual weekly prescribing related data release)
Filename: epraccur.csv

29 July 2022

CSV monthly amendments-only files (published on the monthly updates ODS web page)
Filenames: egpam.csv for GP Practices, eccgam.csv for Sub ICB Locations, and eotheram.csv for ICBs

Eccgam.csv and eotheram.csv are contained within the compressed file eamendam.zip. These extracts are amendment records for the corresponding full files eccg.csv and eother.csv which are published quarterly and may be found on their corresponding data downloads page, as linked.

Egpam.csv contains amendment records for both egpcur.csv (Practitioners) and epraccur.csv (GP Practices) which are published quarterly and may be found on their corresponding data downloads page.

XML monthly release (published via TRUD)

If you need data in the production CSV file format prior to its scheduled publication release date (7 July), you can use ODS DataPoint application to generate a pre-defined report. This will allow you to export data that replicates the content and layout of the most commonly used ODS CSV files.

Last edited: 22 March 2024 11:39 am