Frailty in Leeds: Elderly Population Health and Service Use by Primary Care Network

Leeds data on frailty levels for people aged 65 and over, broken down by Primary Care Network. The dataset contains four worksheets covering frailty prevalence, Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) decile, age bands, and counts and costs of healthcare activity across community, GP, inpatient, outpatient, and urgent care services. It was published by the Government Digital Service via eu_open_data and last updated on 2020-01-22.

Use Cases

• Mapping frailty prevalence across different Primary Care Networks in Leeds based on the Electronic Frailty Index.
• Analyzing the relationship between deprivation (IMD decile) and frailty levels in the elderly population.
• Estimating healthcare service costs associated with different frailty levels based on activity and cost columns.
• Studying age-specific patterns of frailty and corresponding healthcare contacts.

Strengths

• Contains four structured worksheets with distinct breakdowns: by Primary Care Network, IMD decile, age band, and healthcare activity.
• Includes both activity counts and total costs for multiple healthcare service types (Community, GP, Inpatient, Outpatient, Urgent Care).
• Uses a defined clinical tool, the Electronic Frailty Index, for consistency in frailty classification.

Limitations

• Last updated 2020-01-22; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely contains administrative healthcare data aggregated by Primary Care Network.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2020-01-22 10:24:03.958000.

Geography

Leeds, United Kingdom