Metadata dashboard
This dashboard provides metadata on publicly available fields for available data sets.
The Metadata dashboard will display the following:
- Data Set Name - the name of the data set as displayed in DARS online
- Field Name <display name> – name of the field as displayed in DARS online
- Database Field name – name of the field as output to the customer
- Description – description of the data the field contains
- Field Type – data type of the specific field can contain: date, string, integer (whole number) & number (decimal number)
- Identifiable field – the field contains identifiable data
- Field Start Date – the date of the earliest record available in the specific field
- Field End Date - the date of the final record in a specific field, if a field has stopped flowing
We do not hold field level metadata for the for the following data sets in this BETA version of the dashboard:
- Mental Health of Children and Young People (MHCYP) survey
- Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS)
- NDRS Cancer Pathways
- NDRS Cancer Registration (pre-1995)
- NDRS Cancer Registration
- NDRS Lung Cancer Data Audit (LUCADA)
- NDRS National Cancer Diagnosis Audit (NCDA)
- NDRS National Cancer Patient Experience Survey (CPES)
- NDRS National Lung Cancer Audit (NLCA)
- NDRS National Radiotherapy Data Set (RTDS)
- NDRS Quality of Life of Cancer Survivors in England: (Breast, Colorectal, Prostate, Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma)
- NDRS Quality of Life of Colorectal Cancer Survivors in England: Patient Reported Outcome Measures Survey (PROMS)
- NDRS Rapid Cancer Registrations Data Set (RCRD)
- NDRS Somatic Molecular Data Set
- NDRS Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT)
The following datasets have been structured into pre-built packages therefore field selection will not be available to customers and as such will not display in this BETA version of the dashboard.
- Community Services Data Set (CSDS)
- COVID-19 Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA) in Secondary Care
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Data Set (MHLDDS
- Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS)
- Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS)
- Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS)
- Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)
- Un-curated Low Latency Hospital Data Sets
Contact the data applications team for an updated list of available fields for the data sets listed above.
Last edited: 15 November 2023 11:17 am