Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS)

Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS)#

1. Summary#

Dataset descriptor Dataset-specific information
Name of dataset in TRE ECDS
Other name None
Temporal coverage 01/10/2017 onwards
TRE temporal coverage 01/10/2017 onwards
Keywords A&E patients, NHS hospitals
Geographical coverage England
Data resolution A&E attendance
Specific restrictions to data use None
Owner NHS England
Short description Dataset of patients attending Accident and Emergency Departments (including minor injury units and walk-in centres) in England. A record represents one attendance.
Frequency of update Quarterly
Key link https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-sets/emergency-care-data-set-ecds
Number of variables 220
Number of observations 353157
Participant count 121979
Date of last extract 2024-04-26

2. Metrics#

The tables below summarise the ECDS dataset in the UK LLC TRE.

Table 1 The number of participants from each LPS that are represented in the ECDS dataset in the UK LLC TRE
(Note: numbers relate to the most recent extract of NHS England data)

LPS Participant count
ALSPAC 2314
BCS70 2633
BIB 13855
ELSA 3761
EPICN 7801
EXCEED 4190
FENLAND 4930
GLAD 40747
MCS 9477
NCDS58 2892
NEXTSTEP 2635
NIHRBIO_COPING 7355
NSHD46 1275
TEDS 3666
TRACKC19 5312
TWINSUK 6074
UKHLS 3062
TOTAL 121979

3. Helpful syntax#

Below we will include syntax that may be helpful to other researchers in the UK LLC TRE. For longer scripts, we will include a snippet of the code plus a link to Git where you can find the full script.