General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) Data for Pandemic Planning and Research (GDPPR) Dataset#
Last modified: 18 Aug 2025
1. Summary#
Data are collected about patients at General Practices in England that have opted into contributing to the GDPPR dataset and whose health record contains coded information relevant to pandemic planning and research. Data collected include demographic information, diagnoses and findings, medications and other prescribed items, investigations, tests and results, treatments and outcomes, and vaccinations and immunisations.
| Dataset Descriptor | Dataset-specific Information |
|---|---|
| Name of Dataset in TRE | NHSE_GDPPR |
| Citation (APA) | Data Services, NHS England (NHSE). (2024). NHS England: General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) Data for Pandemic Planning and Research. UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC). https://doi.org/10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00382-03 |
| Download Citation | Citeproc JSON BibTeX RIS |
| Series | NHS England |
| Owner | NHS England |
| Temporal Coverage in the TRE | 06/2020 - ongoing |
| Geographical Coverage | England |
| Participant Count | 231214 |
| Number of Variables | 23 |
| Number of Observations | 261104333 |
| Key Link | https://digital.nhs.uk/coronavirus/gpes-data-for-pandemic-planning-and-research/guide-for-analysts-and-users-of-the-data |
| Keywords | COVID-19, Primary care, GP records |
| Latest Extract Date | 2024-04-26 |
| Specific Restrictions to Data Use | 1. Research must be related to COVID-19. For examples of research purposes acceptable to NHS England see the COVID-19 Public Health Directions 2020: https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/corporate-information-and-documents/directions-and-data-provision-notices/secretary-of-state-directions/covid-19-public-health-directions-2020 2. GDPPR data must not be used for any form of performance management of General Practices. |
| Build a Data Request | https://explore.ukllc.ac.uk/ |
2. Metrics#
Click on the plus sign to see the number of participants represented in each dataset.
Table 2: Participants from each LPS represented in the GDPPR dataset in the UK LLC TRE. Note: Individual cohort counts of less than 10 are suppressed to <10 and excluded from total participant counts for datasets.
3. Version History#
| Version | 1 | 2 | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version Date | 21 Dec 2022 | 13 Apr 2023 | 26 Apr 2024 |
| Number of Variables | 23 | 23 | 23 |
| Number of Observations | 163918817 | 201875928 | 261104333 |
| DOI | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00382-01 | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00382-02 | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00382-03 |
| Change Log | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00382-01/activities | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00382-02/activities | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00382-03/activities |
4. Documentation#
We are currently building a documentation storage system which will host useful documents related to datasets and data owners. We will surface these documents on Guidebook.
5. Useful 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 the UK LLC GitHub repository where you can find the full scripts.