CRIS Linkage with Lambeth Council Adult Social Care Data
Research type
Research Database
IRAS ID
338341
Contact name
Robert Stewart
Contact email
Research summary
CRIS Linkage with Lambeth Council Adult Social Care Data
REC name
South Central - Oxford C Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
24/SC/0020
Date of REC Opinion
6 Feb 2024
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion
Data collection arrangements
The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLaM BRC) Case Register comprises a program (the Clinical Record Interactive Search, CRIS) which removes identifiers from SLaM’s electronic medical records system and allows access for research projects. Mosaic is the electronic social care management system used by Lambeth Council to manage adult, children, and finance cases in one platform. It holds workload data, service data and financial information on the provision of social care to short-term and long-term social care uses. We are seeking approval for SLaM’s Clinical Data Linkage Service (CDLS) to securely link the CRIS database with the Lambeth Social Care Dataset. Encrypted NHS numbers from the Lambeth Social Care Dataset will be transferred to the CDLS for linkage to CRIS. Lambeth Social Care and SLaM anonyms are matched, creating an anonymised dataset containing mental health and adult social care data, which can be used to conduct research. Linked datasets accessed and used for research will be fully anonymised by CDLS. This means researchers only ever receive fully anonymised results, so they cannot be linked back to find identifiers.
Research programme
The adult social care and mental health systems in England are inextricably linked with a significant number of shared users between the two services. There is a two-way relationship between the two services with users of local authority adult social care services more likely to utilise mental health care services than the general public and vice versa. Social care staff previously highlighted the need to better understand the journeys that users of both systems take between and within each service and the factors that moderate this. Prioritised research targets include the predictors of institutionalisation and mental health crises and the inequalities surrounding the pathway into mental health care.
Research database title
CRIS Linkage with Lambeth Council Adult Social Care Data
Establishment organisation
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Establishment organisation address
Maudsley Hospital
London
SE5 8AZ