The SAIL Databank: building a national architecture for e-health research and evaluation

Table 1 Datasets held in the SAIL databank

Dataset	Geographical Coverage	Data period
		From	To
All Wales Injury Surveillance System (AWISS)	Morriston A&E, Swansea Hospitals with A&E departments across Wales	1999 2009	2007 →
General Practice Clinical Systems	Individual practice level across Wales	1993	2008
General Practice Out of Hours Service	Swansea & nearby areas	2005	2008
National Community Child Health Database (NCCHD)	Wales	1987	2007
National Pupil Database	Wales	2003	2008
NHS Administrative Register	Wales	1960	2007
NHS Direct Wales calls	Wales	2006	2008
NHS Hospital admissions (inpatients and day cases)	Wales England	1999 1997	2007 2007
NHS Outpatient appointments	Wales England	2004 2003	2007 2007
Pathology	Morriston Hospital, Swansea Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend	2002 1994	2007 2008
Social Services PARIS database	Swansea local authority area	2003	2007
Screening Services	Wales	1990 for cervical screening 1989 for breast screening	Aug 2008 Aug 2008
Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit (WCISU)	Wales	1990	2006

This table provides a list of the datasets currently held in the SAIL databank. It can be seen that many of the datasets are national in coverage. Where datasets are held only on a regional level at this stage, this is because data collection began with the Swansea area, and plans are underway to extend collection across Wales in due course.

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