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GP Out of Hours

Summary

Abstract

NHS Boards provide Primary Care OOH services for patients when their registered GP Practice is closed.

Keywords

GP

Publisher

  • Identifier
    7
  • Name
    Public Health Scotland
  • Logo
  • Description
    Public Health Scotland is an NHS Board. We are uniquely sponsored by the Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) on behalf of local government.
  • Contact point

Documentation

Description

NHS Boards provide Primary Care OOH services for patients when their registered GP Practice is closed. Scottish Government commissioned the National Services Scotland now Public Health Scotland to develop and introduce a dataset to collect information on GP Out of Hours patients across Scotland. National data collection began in April 2014. Data on patients seen by GP Out of Hours (OOH) services across Scotland are collected and maintained by PHS in the national data warehouse known as the GP OOH datamart. Data is collected on local IT system (Adastra), then extracted and submitted to the DataMart on a weekly basis.

Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    United Kingdom, Scotland

  • Geographic levels
    Not available

Temporal

  • Start date
    01/04/2014
  • End date
    Not available
  • Frequency
    Monthly
  • Distribution release date
    01/09/2020

Provenance

  • Purpose
    Administrative
  • Source
    Not available
  • Collection situation
    Not available

Access and governance

  • Conditions of access
    General research use

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Usage

  • Conditions of use
    Not available
  • Resource creator
    Public Health Scotland
  • Is referenced by
    Not available

Access

Format and standards

  • Language
    English
  • Format
    text, csv

Enrichment and linkage

  • Related datasets
    • Not available
  • Linkage opportunity
    Not available
  • Tools
    • Not available

Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset. 

Data dictionary

PATIENT_GENDER_CODE

Gender code for the patient

PATIENT_GENDER_DESCRIPTION

Gender description for the patient

PATIENT_DATE_OF_BIRTH

The date when a person was born or is officially deemed to have been, as recorded on the...

POSTCODE_OF_RESIDENCE

Postcode of the patient's place of residence (based on the patients postcode in CHI).

GP_PRACTICE_CODE

GP Practice

HB_OF_TREATMENT_CODE_9

NHS Health board in which the patient was treated. This is based on the Health Board at ...

HB_OF_TREATMENT_NAME

NHS Health board in which the patient was treated. This is based on the Health Board at ...

CALL_ID_NHS24

The NHS 24 call identifier for the case, which is a unique call reference number assigne...

REFERRAL_SOURCE

The source of the referral to the GP OOH Service, categorised into national groupings.

TRIAGED_BY

The organisation which triaged the patient at reception, e.g. NHS 24, OoH Centre Staff, ...

Variable description

Data type
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