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Primary Care Appointments

Population Size

People

Population Size statistic card

Years

2015

Years statistic card

Associated BioSamples

None/not available

Associated BioSamples statistic card

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

England

Geographic coverage statistic card

Lead time

1-2 months

Lead time statistic card

Dataset

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Data Custodian

Summary

A booking of a healthcare event among patient(s), practitioner(s), related person(s) and/or device(s) for a specific date/time.

Documentation

An entry in the clinical systems calendar for time allocated to a specific patient. Some examples of this are a face to face appointment, a non face to face appointment and carrying out administration tasks relating to a patient

Dataset type

Health and disease, Treatments/Interventions

Dataset population size

Keywords

Observations

Observed Node	Disambiguating Description	Measured Value	Measured Property	Observation Date
Persons		1	TBC	21 Oct 2025

Provenance

Purpose of dataset collection

Administrative, Care, Other

Source of data extraction

EPR, Other

Collection source setting

Primary care - Clinic

Patient pathway description

This dataset contains all Primary Care appointments for patients in North West London. Each patient will be identified using an unique patient key, patient keys can be used to link to other datasets to understand the patient pathway.

Image contrast

Not stated

Biological sample availability

None/not available

Structural Metadata

Details

Publishing frequency

Biweekly

Version

1.0.0

Modified

11/11/2025

Citation Requirements

NHS NWL ICS;,;London SDE

Coverage

Start date

01/01/2015

Time lag

1-2 weeks

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom, England, London, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster

Maximum age range

150

Follow-up

10 Years

Accessibility

Language

Alignment with standardised data models

OTHER

Controlled vocabulary

LOCAL

Format

Excel, SQL, Tableau, R

Data Access Request

Dataset pipeline status

Not available

Access rights

https://discover-now.co.uk/make-an-enquiry/

Time to dataset access

1-2 months

Access request cost

In Progress

Access method category

TRE/SDE

Access service description

Researchers will have access to a VDI environment with a specific username and password. The researchers will get access to the datasets that is present in the hubs catalogue and would be able to carry out their research within the safe haven. There are restrictions applied which prevents the researchers from taking data out of the safe haven, once the research/analysis is completed the admin team will need to be contacted for taking the analysis off the safe haven.

Data use limitation

No restriction

Data use requirements

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

Data Controller

Joint data controller model across North West London

Data Processor

North West London Integrated Care Board (NWL ICB) North East London Integrated Care Board (NEL ICB) North of England Commissioning Support Unit (NECS)

Investigations

https://discover-now.co.uk/the-data/data-access-requests/

Enrichment and Linkage