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

CVD-COVID-UK 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. COVID-IMPACT is an expansion of this approach in England to address research questions looking at the impact of COVID-19 on other health conditions and their related risk factors. 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 Research Environments or Secure Data Environments (TREs/SDEs) provided by NHS England (England), the National Safe Haven (Scotland), the SAIL Databank (Wales) and the Honest Broker Service (Northern Ireland). A dashboard of datasets available in each nation’s TRE/SDE can be found here: https://bhfdatasciencecentre.org/areas/cvd-covid-uk-covid-impact/

This dataset represents the linked datasets for CVD-COVID-UK/COVID-IMPACT in NHS England’s SDE for England and contains the following datasets: • GPES Data for Pandemic Planning and Research (GDPPR)(COVID-19) • Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care (HES APC) • Hospital Episode Statistics Critical Care (HES CC) • Hospital Episode Statistics Outpatients (HES OP) • Hospital Episode Statistics Accident and Emergency (HES A&E) • Secondary Uses Services Payment By Results (SUS) • Uncurated Low Latency Hospital Data (Admitted Patient Care, Outpatients, Critical Care) • Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) • Covid-19 Second Generation Surveillance System • Covid-19 UK Non-hospital Antigen Testing Results • Covid-19 UK Non-hospital Antibody Testing Results • COVID-19 Vaccination Status • COVID-19 Vaccination Adverse Reaction • Civil Registration of Death • Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) • COVID-19 SARI-Watch (formerly CHESS) • Medicines dispensed in Primary Care (NHSBSA data) • Secondary Care Prescribed Medicines (EPMA) • NICOR Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP) • NICOR Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI) • NICOR National Heart Failure Audit (NHFA) • NICOR National Adult Cardiac Surgery Audit (NACSA) • NICOR National Audit of Cardiac Rhythm Management (NACRM) • NICOR National Congenital Heart Disease Audit (NCHDA) • NICOR Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) • Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme Clinical Dataset (SSNAP) • Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Data Set (IAPT) • Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS • Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS)