What's New for CPRD?

Vision Release DLM 860

England Only

  • Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) - Where a patient has chosen to not share their confidential information for research and planning purposes via the National Data Opt-out Service, their data is no longer included in a CRPD data collection.

    See National Data Opt-out Service in the Search and Reports Help Centre for further details.

Previous Releases

  • Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) - The CPRD extract has been updated to include the Medication Review location.

  • Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) - The CPRDextraction has been updated to be SNOMED CT compliant.
  • Patient Consent - The way you record patient consent for Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) has been updated, and is now recorded using Read codes, see Patient Consent.
  • CPRD- Your scheduled extract has been updated to include all Yellow Card data.

General

  • Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) - GPRD is now known as CPRD
  • Define Collection Type - option removed
  • Email option - Removed from Start Collection and Copy to Media
  • Browse - Updated to a standard Windows Folder Select screen
  • Error messages - updated with additional information for the In Practice Systems Ltd helpline

Start Collection

  • Automatic Copy to Media - tick box removed
  • Browse - button enabled and populated with the last destination used
  • Removable Storage Devices - automatically detected
  • .ZIP file - held in P:\Extract if there are any issue during transfer

General Collection Process

  • Prefixes - automatic collection prefixes M and D are introduced
  • Check for .ZIP file - to prevent an unsent .ZIP being overwritten in error
  • Creation of .Zip file - at the end of every collection
  • New Entities Collected
  • Automatic Data Collections - You can now submit incremental data collection (IDC) files automatically. This is dependent on practice consent.
  • Encryption of Data Collections - All collected data is now encrypted for transmission.
  • Removable Media - As various removable media are now used for the collection and sending of data ie USB memory keys, the term ‘Tape’ has been replaced throughout by Removable Media.