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Trusted Research Environments for CVD-COVID-UK / COVID-IMPACT

Population Size

65,000,000

People

Population Size statistic card

Years

1990

Years statistic card

Associated BioSamples

None/not available

Associated BioSamples statistic card

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

Geographic coverage statistic card

Lead time

Less than 1 week

Lead time statistic card

Summary

Linkable health datasets in respective TREs in England, Scotland and Wales, accessible to approved researchers who are members of the BHF Data Science Centre's CVD-COVID-UK consortium, and for COVID-IMPACT / National Core Studies projects (England only).

Documentation

CVD-COVID-UK, co-ordinated by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Data Science Centre, is one of the NIHR-BHF Cardiovascular Partnership’s National Flagship Projects.

It aims to understand the relationship between COVID-19 and cardiovascular diseases through analyses of de-identified, pseudonymised, linked, nationally collated health datasets across the four nations of the UK.

The consortium has over 400 members across more than 50 institutions including data custodians, data scientists and clinicians, all of whom have signed up to an agreed set of principles with an inclusive, open and transparent ethos.

Approved researchers access data within secure trusted/secure research environments (TREs/SDEs) provided by NHS England (England), the National Safe Haven (Scotland), the SAIL Databank (Wales) and the Honest Broker Service (Northern Ireland).

Linkable datasets include those from primary and secondary care, COVID lab tests and vaccinations, deaths, critical care, prescribing/dispensing, cardiovascular and stroke audits, maternity services and mental health.

The centre has gained approval to broaden the scope of the programme to all COVID-related research (in NHS England’s SDE for England only). This is known as COVID-IMPACT and it will help to support research projects from the wider community, including for the National Core Studies.

A dashboard of datasets available in each nation’s TRE can be found here: https://bhfdatasciencecentre.org/areas/cvd-covid-uk-covid-impact/

Note:

  • The demographic information/counts are approximate and rounded. Figures should not be used for anything other than a rough indication of size of the grouping.
  • Counts for people between 5-24 years have been approximated into these bins based on the age bins in the COALESCE study. https://www.hdruk.ac.uk/projects/coalesce/
  • All count of people above the age of 85 years are included in the age bin 85-90 years.

Dataset type

Health and disease, Registry

Dataset sub-type

Cardiovascular, Mental health, Maternity and neonatology, Vaccines, Births and deaths

Dataset population size

65000000

Keywords

Observations

Observed Node

Disambiguating Description

Measured Value

Measured Property

Observation Date

Persons

Multiple datasets in each nation's TRE with a population size of up to 57M in England (NHSE), 5.5M in Scotland (Safe Haven) and 3.2M in Wales (SAIL). Some datasets measure events and will have a significantly larger number of records.

65000000

Count

01 Jan 1990

Provenance

Purpose of dataset collection

Study

Collection source setting

Clinic, Primary care - Clinic, Secondary care - Accident and Emergency, Secondary care - Outpatients, Secondary care - In-patients, Community, Prescribing - Community pharmacy

Patient pathway description

Primary care, secondary care, COVID testing and vaccinations, deaths, ITU/HDU admissions, prescribing/dispensing, cardiovascular audits (NICOR), stroke audits (SSNAP), maternity services, mental health.

Image contrast

Not stated

Biological sample availability

None/not available

Structural Metadata

Details

Publishing frequency

Monthly

Version

7.0.0

Modified

08/10/2024

Citation Requirements

NHS England, SAIL Databank, Scottish National Safe Haven

Coverage

Start date

01/01/1990

Time lag

Variable

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

Maximum age range

150

Follow-up

Other

Accessibility

Language

en

Controlled vocabulary

OPCS4, READ, SNOMED CT, DM+D, ICD10, OTHER, NHS NATIONAL CODES, NHS WALES NATIONAL CODES, LOCAL, ICD9, NHS SCOTLAND NATIONAL CODES, ODS

Format

SQL database table

Data Access Request

Dataset pipeline status

Not available

Time to dataset access

Less than 1 week

Access method category

TRE/SDE

Access service description

Data is accessed within the respective TREs under the arrangements in place with the BHF Data Science Centre for CVD-COVID-UK / COVID-IMPACT

Jurisdiction

GB-ENG, GB-SCT, GB-WLS

Data use limitation

Research-specific restrictions

Data use requirements

Collaboration required,Institution-specific restrictions,Project-specific restrictions,Publication required,Time limit on use,User-specific restriction

Data Controller

NHS England, Public Health Scotland/National Records Scotland, SAIL Databank

Data Processor

NHS England, Public Health Scotland, SAIL Databank

Demographics

Dataset Types: Health and disease, Registry

Dataset Sub-types: Cardiovascular, Mental health, Maternity and neonatology, Vaccines, Births and deaths


Collection Sources: Clinic, Primary care - Clinic, Secondary care - Accident and Emergency, Secondary care - Outpatients, Secondary care - In-patients, Community, Prescribing - Community pharmacy

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