External Feasibility Tools
If you require assistance utilising any of the external online feasibility tools detailed below, please don't hesitate to contact the ROST team via email at rost.crnwestmidlands@nihr.ac.uk
NHS England provide data dashboards and reports on a number of areas that may prove beneficial to us when providing links to data resources to research teams during their early engagement with the CRN. Please follow the link for more information on the data provided.
Here are 4 examples of useful dashboards provided by NHS England containing data that could prove useful for feasibility purposes.
Click on the images below to navigate directly to the data source
Click on the image above to access data ranging from information regarding individual GP practice populations right through to prescribing at GP practice level
Click on the image above to access data regarding Adult Social Care statistics both on a local & national level
Click on the image above to access data related to the numbers of people who have opted-out from their data being shared
Click on the image above to access data related to a number of different measures associated with Mental Health
The Office for Health Improvement & Disparities also provide Public Health dashboards & reports on a number of areas useful to us when sourcing feasibility data. Follow the link to find out more.
Here are 4 examples of useful dashboards containing data around various services and sectors
Click on the images below to navigate directly to the data source
Click on the image above to access data regarding Child and Maternal Health statistics both on a local and national level
Click on the image above to access data related to Cancer Services both on a local and national level
Click on the image above to access data regarding wider determinants of health both on a local and national level
Click on the image above to access data on musculoskeletal health collated at a local level
The Department of Health & Social Care provide the Shape Place tool for the use of the Public Sector to map various characteristics over a defined geographical area. Follow the link below for find out more:
Shape Place - free to use for the Public Sector to access data on:
NHS organisations, boundaries and sites and local infrastructure information
Primary care patients, workforce make up, dispensing data, practice information and contracts
Population demographics and projections including ethnicity, deprivation, poverty, disease prevalence and census data
Environmental data including flooding, nitrogen dioxide levels, sulphur dioxide levels and particulate matter levels
Shape Place enables the following functionality within its design:
Data overlays abilities
Travel time analysis including driving routes to nearest sites, travel time by foot, bike, car or public transport and distance and boundary visualisations
Analysis tools including charts and tables, line graphs and RAG ratings
Export capabilities for the maps as PCF documents and selected data sets to excel
The Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science provides the Open Prescribing tool for easy analysis of the data that the NHS in England publishes about the drugs prescribed by GPs. Follow the link below for find out more.
Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science - Open Prescribing
Open Prescribing - Easier analysis of monthly GP prescribing data
Every month, the NHS in England publishes anonymised data about the drugs prescribed by GPs, but the raw data files are large and unwieldy, with more than 700 million rows. Open Prescribing makes it easier for everyone to explore this data:
Look at Sub-ICB Location - Open Prescribing has identified standard prescribing measures, and created dashboards for every ICB, Sub-ICB Location, and practice in the country
Look at GP practice - Open Prescribing has identified standard prescribing measures, and created dashboards for every GP practice in the country
The Office for National Statistics offer a useful resource enabling analysis of local and national areas of the country utilising a number of different measures. Click here to find out more.
Office of National Statistics - data from the 2021 census
There are a number of measures available within this resource that may prove useful when gauging feasibility data for the purpose of placing studies. Some examples are linked below:
Ethnicity mapping - Click here to access a mapping tool to enable the analysis of population depth by ethnicity at both a local and national level
Disability and General Health mapping - Click here to access a mapping tool to enable the analysis of population depth by gauges including disability and general health at both a local and national level
