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SAHSU - NHS England - Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS)

Population Size

Not reported
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Years

2018 - 2023

Years statistic card

Associated BioSamples

None/not available

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Geographic coverage

England

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Lead time

Variable

Lead time statistic card

Summary

The Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) is the national data set for urgent and emergency care in England. It collects information about why people attend emergency departments and the treatment they receive.

Documentation

The Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) is the national dataset for urgent and emergency care services in England. ECDS replaced the former A&E Commissioning Data Set and provides richer, clinically relevant information to support patient care, healthcare planning, and public health initiatives. ECDS records each attendance at emergency care settings - such as A&E departments, urgent treatment centres, and some walk-in centres - and includes information about the complexity and acuity of attending patients, granular diagnostic data, attendance outcomes, waiting times, referral sources, SNOMED CT-coded diagnoses, and Health Resource Group (HRG) codes.

SAHSU holds a data sharing agreement with NHS England and has access to a restricted subset of variables from the full dataset.

The dataset may be internally linkable with SAHSU's environmental datasets, including air pollution and green space.

Dataset type

Keywords

Provenance

Purpose of dataset collection

Administrative

Source of data extraction

Other

Collection source setting

Other

Image contrast

Not stated

Biological sample availability

None/not available

Structural Metadata

Details

Publishing frequency

Annual

Version

1.0.0

Modified

03/06/2025

Citation Requirements

Small Area Health Statistics Unit

Coverage

Start date

01/01/2018

End date

31/12/2023

Time lag

More than 6 months

Geographic coverage

England

Maximum age range

150

Follow-up

Other

Accessibility

Language

en

Alignment with standardised data models

LOCAL

Controlled vocabulary

LOCAL

Format

csv

Data Access Request

Dataset pipeline status

Not available

Time to dataset access

Variable

Access request cost

Variable

Access method category

TRE/SDE

Access service description

Certified Secure Research Environment

Jurisdiction

GB-ENG

Data use limitation

Research-specific restrictions

Data use requirements

Collaboration required,Ethics approval required,Geographical restrictions,Institution-specific restrictions,Not for profit use,Publication required,Project-specific restrictions,User-specific restriction,Disclosure control

Data Controller

Imperial College London

Data Processor

Imperial College London

Dataset Types: Health and disease

Dataset Sub-types: Others


Collection Sources: Other