NHS England Patient Service Usage Dataset#
Last modified: 01 Jun 2026
1. Summary#
The NHS England patient service usage dataset contains information about the number of appearances, and the date of the most recent appearance, in each NHS England dataset for each LPS participant. The dataset includes all NHS England linked participants whose inclusion is approved as part of a UK LLC project. (The only exception is that a participant’s presence in mental health datasets (e.g. MHSDS and IAPT) will not be included for projects which do not include mental health datasets.)
This dataset enables researchers to:
identify a project’s denominator, or control group, by comparing LPS participants’ overall usage of NHS England services against the usage apparent in the data provisioned to a project. For NHS England datasets that have to be minimised by codelists, this comparison will establish which participants appear in the full dataset but are not included in the provisioned data
elucidate the extent to which the codelist definitions provided cover the overall participant usage of a service.
| Dataset Descriptor | Dataset-specific Information |
|---|---|
| Name of Dataset in TRE | UKLLC_nhse_patient_service_usage |
| Citation (APA) | UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration. (2025). UK LLC Managed: NHSE Patient Service Usage Dataset. UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC). https://doi.org/10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00439-09 |
| Download Citation | Citeproc JSON BibTeX RIS |
| Series | UK LLC Managed |
| Owner | UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration, NHS England |
| Temporal Coverage | Unknown - Unknown |
| Keywords | |
| Participant Count | 246456 |
| Number of variables | 25 |
| Number of observations | 246456 |
| Specific Restrictions to Data Use | None |
| Build a Data Request | https://explore.ukllc.ac.uk/ |
2. Variables#
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
| avail_from_dt | label not available |
| CANCER_count | label not available |
| CANCER_date | label not available |
| cohortkey_e | label not available |
| COVIDSGSS_count | label not available |
| COVIDSGSS_date | label not available |
| CVAR_count | label not available |
| CVAR_date | label not available |
| CVS_count | label not available |
| CVS_date | label not available |
| GDPPR_count | label not available |
| GDPPR_date | label not available |
| HES_count | label not available |
| HES_date | label not available |
| IELISA_count | label not available |
| IELISA_date | label not available |
| last_seen_date | Date of last appearance across all NHS tables |
| MHSDS_count | label not available |
| MHSDS_date | label not available |
| MORTALITY_count | label not available |
| MORTALITY_date | label not available |
| NPEX_count | label not available |
| NPEX_date | label not available |
| PCM_count | label not available |
| PCM_date | label not available |
3. Version History#
| Version | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version Date | 28 Oct 2022 | 16 Dec 2022 | 08 Dec 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 06 Aug 2025 |
| Number of Variables | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
| Number of Observations | 196592 | 196592 | 216123 | 246449 | 246456 |
| DOI | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00439-05 | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00439-06 | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00439-07 | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00439-08 | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00439-09 |
| Change Log | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00439-05/activities | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00439-06/activities | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00439-07/activities | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00439-08/activities | 10.71760/ukllc-dataset-00439-09/activities |
4. 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 Git where you can find the full scripts.