FOI REF: FOI-2023-1102
You asked
I am interested in cardiovascular outcomes in patients with diabetes. Please provide the mortality outcome for the patients who were included in the National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR) database with ischaemic heart disease and heart failure.
We said
Thank you for your request.
We can provide a custom dataset including deaths due to and involving ischaemic heart disease and heart failure by certain disaggregation’s such as age, sex, ICD-10 code and selected geographic levels via our bespoke services. Such services would be subject to legal frameworks, disclosure controls, resources and agreement of costs, in line with our charging policy. If you would like to request this bespoke dataset, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk to discuss your enquiry further.
However, please not that as part of this custom dataset, we will not be able to release any identifiable information which would allow you to identify individuals have been specifically included in the National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR) database. Section 39(1) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (SRSA) renders it a criminal offence for the Statistics Board (ONS) to release personal information collected for statistical purposes. Personal information is any information held by ONS that would identify a body corporate or an individual, including those who are deceased. As disclosure is prohibited by another enactment, this information specifically is exempt from release under Section 44(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
If you are looking for identifiable patient tracing data in particular, the Personal Demographics Service - NHS Digital may be better placed to assist.