NHS Digital publishes the Children and Young People's Health Services (CYPHS) dataset, a patient-level collection of NHS-funded community service records for individuals aged 18 years or under. The data includes personal demographics, diagnoses, care events, and screening activities. These statistics are classified as experimental and were last updated on 2026-07-08.
Use Cases
- Analyze service utilization patterns based on demographic information mentioned in the description
- Study prevalence and outcomes of long-term conditions and childhood disabilities based on diagnosis data
- Evaluate screening program effectiveness based on reported screening activities
- Assess health service efficiency and identify potential inequalities based on care event data
Strengths
- Patient-level data granularity allows for detailed individual-level analysis
- Data is part of the official Maternity and Children's Data Set (MCDS) Project
Limitations
- Statistics are classified as experimental and should be used with caution
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
Provenance
- Source
- NHS Digital
- Collection Method
- Reported data from NHS-funded community services via the CYPHS dataset
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:28.572282
- Geography
- England