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North West London High Cost Drugs Data (NWL HCD)

Population Size

29,965

People

Population Size statistic card

Years

2016

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Associated BioSamples

None/not available

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Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

England

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Lead time

1-2 months

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Summary

The NWL HCD linked table are a number of high cost drugs that are excluded from the Payment by Results (PbR) tariff. They are typically specialist and are delivered to patients within NWL. The data includes details such as drug name, quantity and dosage.

Documentation

The purpose of the Drugs Patient Level Contract Monitoring (DrPLCM) is to enable the interchange, in a uniform format, of monthly patient level drug contract monitoring data between commissioners and providers of healthcare. This will ensure that contract monitoring and reporting is consistent and comparable across all commissioning organisations and their footprints.

Dataset type

Health and disease

Dataset sub-type

Not applicable

Dataset population size

29965

Associated media

https://discover-now.co.uk/the-data/https://www.nwlondonics.nhs.uk/professionals/whole-systems-integrated-care-wsic/information-de-identified-users

Keywords

Observations

Observed Node

Disambiguating Description

Measured Value

Measured Property

Observation Date

Persons

Population

29965

Count

08 Dec 2020

Persons

Registered population

45312

count

20 Oct 2022

Provenance

Source of data extraction

EPR

Collection source setting

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

Patient pathway description

This dataset contains information related to all patients prescribed high cost drugs in hospital. Every patient is identified by an unique patient key that can be used to link to other Discover-NOW datasets to derive the patient pathway.

Image contrast

Not stated

Biological sample availability

None/not available

Structural Metadata

Details

Publishing frequency

Monthly

Version

6.0.0

Modified

08/10/2024

Distribution release date

18/12/2019

Citation Requirements

NHS NWL ICS;,;Discover-NOW

Coverage

Start date

01/01/2016

Time lag

1-2 months

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

en

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 hub's 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.

Jurisdiction

GB

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)

Dataset Types: Health and disease

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

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