NHS England registration datasets#

Last modified: 05 Jul 2024

Introduction#

NHS England flows extracts of three registration datasets into the UK LLC TRE - see Table 1.

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.

Coverage of registration datasets#

Table 1 summarises the temporal and geographical coverage of each of the three registration datasets. For a list of variables in the three datasets, see the NHS England Metadata dashboard.

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

Name in TRE

Full name

Coverage

From

Until

Data available in TRE

Owner

CANCER

Cancer Registration Data

England

01/01/1971

Ongoing

01/01/1971 onwards

NHSE

DEMOGRAPHICS

Demographics Registration Data

England & Wales

01/06/2004

Ongoing

01/06/2004 onwards

NHSE

MORTALITY

Civil Registrations of Death

England & Wales

01/01/1993

Ongoing

01/01/1993 onwards

ONS

ONS: Office for National Statistics