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Our Trusted Data Linkage Service offers secure connections for HES, PROMS, ONS, MHMDS, Cancer data with universities, NHS, research, government, and commercial entities. Utilizing deterministic and probabilistic linkage algorithms involving NHS numbers, DOBs, sex, postcodes, and names, our service ensures an efficient and affordable linkage process while accounting for common keying errors.
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Trusted Data linkage Service • Data • HES, PROMS, ONS, MHMDS, Cancer • Customers • Universities, NHS, research, government, commercial • DCLG – Homelessness • The Nuffield Trust – Person based resource allocation • Dept. for Transport – STATS19 • IMS – Hospital prescribing data • GPRD, CSDMR, QResearch – GP data linkage
Linkage algorithms • Fields used: • NHS number • Date of birth • Sex • Postcode • (Names)
Deterministic vs. probabilistic • Probabilistic • Very processor intensive – HESID index availability • Expensive • Useful when things are similar • NHS numbers are exact • Deterministic • Efficient • Cheaper • Less accurate? • Algorithm accounts for most common keying error