Variation in health life expectancy Version 1.0
Research type
Research Database
IRAS ID
234384
Contact name
Harry Hemingway
Contact email
Research summary
Variation in healthy life expectancy throughout childhood and adulthood in England
REC name
London - Camden & Kings Cross Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/LO/0010
Date of REC Opinion
22 Jan 2018
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion
Data collection arrangements
This databases hosts Hospital Episode Statistics, which contains records on all admissions, outpatient appointments and Accident & Emergency attendances at NHS hospitals in England since 1997. This is provided for a duration of five years under a Data Sharing Agreement with NHS Digital. We also have authorisation to hold and process death registration data controlled by the Office for National Statistics.
The specific dataset we are authorised to process by NHS Digital does not contain direct identifiers such as NHS number, names, dates of birth or addresses. However, it does contain information on age at every hospital episode, lower layer super output census areas in which patients reside or have resided, and your ethnic group. In addition, it contains information on death registration (date of registration, date of death, causes of death). Because these records are held on certified secure computer network known as the UCL Data Safe Haven, these records are considered to be kept sufficiently safe and restricted so that only approved researchers have access to them, and that they could not guess who individual patients are from these records in any way.Research programme
This research database is suppot a programme of scientific research on variation in healthy life expectancy throughout childhood and adulthood in England. The applicants propose to estimate measures of healthy life expectancy for: (i) a range of socio-demographic groups; and (ii) groups of patients (cohorts) with specific conditions or risk factors. Research projects conducted as part of the programme will pursue at least one of the following aims: (a) To investigate inequalities in survival and healthy life across groups, time, or health care organisations (b) To identify key medical conditions, health interventions or events and determinants of loss of life and loss of healthy life, including deprivation and/or clinical risk factors (c) To develop methodology on processing and drawing inference from HES and death registrations grounded in statistical and epidemiological sciences.
Research database title
Variation in healthy life expectancy throughout childhood and adulthood in England
Establishment organisation
UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences
Establishment organisation address
University College London
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT