Linkages permitted by each LPS

Last modified: 03 Sep 2024

The table below summarises the linkages permitted by each LPS to health, non-health administrative and geospatial datasets.

Note: Even if an LPS has permitted linkage to a data source, each LPS participant can decide to opt out of UK LLC altogether or to opt out of a specific linkage or all linkages by notifying their LPS. If a participant opts out, no further data about them will flow into the UK LLC TRE and the participant’s data will not be provisioned to new research projects. However, researchers who already have access to that individual’s information will be permitted to retain that access until the end of the project, but they will not obtain any new data about that individual.

Table 1 A summary of the linkages permitted by each of the 22 Longitudinal Population Studies (LPS) that are part of the UK LLC partnership (listed in alphabetical order)

LPS	NHS England (19 datasets)	NHS Wales (17 datasets)	NHS Scotland	Neighbourhood geographies1	Address geographies2	DfE	DWP	HMRC
AIRWAVE	✓	✗	TBC	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗
ALSPAC	✓	✓	TBC	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
BCS70	✓	✓	TBC	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗
BIB	✓	✓	TBC	✓	✓	✓	✗	✗
ELSA	✓	✗	TBC	✓	✗	✗	✓	✓
EPICN	✓	✗	TBC	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗
EXCEED	✓	✓	TBC	✓	✓	✗	✗	✗
FENLAND	✓	✓	TBC	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗
GENSCOT	✗	✗	TBC	✓	✓	✗	✗	✗
GLAD	✓	✓	TBC	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗
MCS	✓	✓	TBC	✓	✗	✓	✓	✓
NCDS58	✓	✓	TBC	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗
NEXTSTEP	✓	✓	TBC	✓	✗	✓	✓	✓
NICOLA	✗	✗	TBC	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗
NIHRBIO_COPING	✓	✓	TBC	✓	✓	✗	✗	✗
NSHD46	✓	✗	TBC	✓	✓	✗	✗	✗
SABRE	✗	✗	TBC	✗	✓	✗	✗	✗
TEDS	✓	✗	TBC	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗
TRACKC19	✓	✓	TBC	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗
TWINSUK	✓	✗	TBC	✓	✓	✓	✗	✗
UKHLS	✓	✓	TBC	✓	✗	✓	✓	✓
UK-REACH	✓	✗	TBC	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗

¹Geographies used to produce official statistics, including administrative, health and statistical geographies (e.g. census geographies such as LSOA)
²Household level using UPRN or postcode level

DfE: Department for Education; DWP: Department for Work and Pensions; HMRC: HM Revenue & Customs