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Outpatient Referral (OPRD)

Population Size

Not reported

Years

2009 - 2021

Associated BioSamples

None/not available

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

Wales

Lead time

2-6 months

Summary

Data on Outpatient referrals from primary care.

Documentation

Monthly return submitted by Local Health Boards. A complete referral pathway to secondary care, including all clinical referrals received from General Practitioner, General Dental Practitioners, Community Dental Services, A&E Departments, self referrals, walk-ins or emergency patients accompanied by a GP letter, and Consultant to Consultant Referrals.

Please be aware that these columns no longer contain data from the provider: REF_PARENT_CURR_NAME, REF_PARENT_CURR_CD, REF_ORG_CURR_NAME_WELSH_ONLY, REF_ORG_CURR_CD_WELSH_ONLY, REF_ORG_CURR_NAME, REF_ORG_CURR_CD, REF_ORG_NAME, REF_ORG_CD, PAT_REQ_GP_CLUSTER_NAME, PAT_REG_GP_CLUSTER_CD

Dataset type
Health and disease
Dataset sub-type
Not applicable
Associated media
https://saildatabank.com/about-us/https://popdatasci.swan.ac.uk/centres-of-excellence/sail/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK9-Jw3uVkwhttps://saildatabank.com/https://www.datadictionary.wales.nhs.uk/index.html#!WordDocuments/outpatientdatasetopds2.htm

Keywords

Referral, Outpatient, SAIL, core, OPRD, Health & Wellbeing, Children & Young People, Growing Old, Inequality & Social Inclusion

Observations

Observed Node
Disambiguating Description
Measured Value
Measured Property
Observation Date

Events

Approx 70-80% coverage of Welsh population through GP registrations.

3000000

Count

31 Aug 2021

Provenance

Source of data extraction
EPR
Collection source setting
Secondary care - Outpatients
Patient pathway description
Secondary care
Image contrast
Not stated
Biological sample availability
None/not available

Structural Metadata

Details

Publishing frequency
Quarterly
Version
7.0.0
Modified

08/10/2024

Distribution release date

11/09/2019

Citation Requirements
["NHS Wales’ Informatics Service (NWIS)"]

Coverage

Start date

04/01/2009

End date

30/06/2021

Time lag
1-2 months
Geographic coverage
United Kingdom, Wales
Maximum age range
150
Follow-up
Other

Accessibility

Language
en
Controlled vocabulary
LOCAL
Format
SQL database table

Data Access Request

Dataset pipeline status
Not available
Access rights
https://saildatabank.com/data/apply-to-work-with-the-data/
Time to dataset access
2-6 months
Access request cost
Data provision is free from SAIL. Overall project costing depends on the number of people that require access to the SAIL Gateway, the activities that SAIL needs to complete (e.g. loading non-standard datasets), data refreshes, analytical work required, disclosure control process, and special case technological requirements.
Access method category
TRE/SDE
Access service description
The SAIL Databank is powered by the UK Secure e-Research Platform (UKSeRP). Following approval through safeguard processes, access to project-specific data within the secure environment is permitted using two-factor authentication.
Jurisdiction
GB
Data use limitation
General research use
Data use requirements
Project-specific restrictions,Time limit on use,User-specific restriction
Data Controller
SAIL Databank
Data Processor
SAIL Databank

Dataset Types: Health and disease

Collection Sources: Secondary care - Outpatients