Connected Health Cities: Data linkage of urgent care data
Research type
Research Database
IRAS ID
325288
Contact name
Suzanne Mason
Contact email
Research summary
Connected Health Cities: Data linkage of urgent care data
REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Leeds East Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
23/YH/0079
Date of REC Opinion
25 Apr 2023
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion
Data collection arrangements
The CUREd database has been successfully operational since 2018. It is a unique research database that contains data from multiple Urgent and Emergency Care services across the Yorkshire and Humber region over an 72 month period; 2011-2017. CUREd contains routine data the Yorkshire Ambulance Service, NHS111 and NHS Hospital Trusts with the data linked together to allow the EUC services to be viewed as a whole system, enabling demand on the system by patients to be analysed as well as the flow of patients through the system.
Research programme
There is currently a lack of data to provide a detailed picture of the characteristics of demand in the Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) system. Individual provider data exists, e.g. ambulance 999 and ED, but the CUREd Research Database is unique in its inclusion of region-wide ambulance service data linked to hospital data. It is extremely valuable for undertaking research from a UEC system perspective to show patient flow through the whole system, from point of contact (e.g. call to 999/NHS 111) through different parts of the system (into ED and into hospital). Understanding the system and how patients use it is key to developing appropriate patient-focused interventions that can lead to a sustainable, safe and cost-effective system of care.
Research database title
Connected Health Cities: Data linkage of urgent care data
Establishment organisation
The University of Sheffield
Establishment organisation address
School of Health and Related Research, Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street,
Sheffield
S1 4DA