NHS England registration datasets

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NHS England registration datasets#

Last modified: 18 Jul 2025

The registration datasets cover deaths, cancer and basic demographics.

Summary:

UK LLC holds three NHS England registration datasets: Cancer Registration Data (CANCER), Civil Registrations of Death (MORTALITY) and Demographics Registration Data (DEMOGRAPHICS).

The datasets span 1971 onwards.

ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes are used in the CANCER and MORTALITY datasets. No clinical classifications are used in the DEMOGRAPHICS dataset. See the Coded variables guide for further details.

For a list of variables in the three datasets, see the NHS England Metadata dashboard

Overview of registration datasets#

For further information see the individual dataset guides.

Table 1 Names, geographical coverage and availability of registration datasets in the UK LLC TRE

Dataset	Dataset name	Grouping	Coverage	Data available in TRE	Data owner
CANCER	Cancer Registration Data	Cancer	England	01/01/1971 onwards	NHSE
DEMOGRAPHICS	Demographics Registration Data	Demographics	England & Wales	01/06/2004 onwards	NHSE
MORTALITY	Civil Registrations of Death	Deaths	England & Wales	01/01/1993 onwards	ONS

ONS: Office for National Statistics