This Dataset can only be used for COVID-19-related projects.

The General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) is NHS England's daily collection of structured and coded data from GP medical records in England, supporting vital health and social care planning, commissioning, public health, and research. Introduced under the General Practice Data for Planning and Research Directions 2021, the new data collection reduces the burden on GP practices and enables better use of data for improved patient outcomes and service delivery.

GPDPR data is used to understand the causes of ill health, improve care, develop new treatments, and plan NHS services more effectively. It supports essential functions such as tracking disease trends, supporting clinical trials, and allocating services and resources based on population need.

The data collected includes demographic details (such as age, sex, and ethnicity), symptoms, allergies, observations, diagnoses, test results, medications, referrals, and immunisations.

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.