Other suggestions received from the health advisory panel

At the roundtable consultation with experts working in health research, practice and

policy, attendees were asked to consider potential data linkage sources. There were

several suggestions, although not all are yet in operation and may ultimately prove to

be unfeasible for linkage. For future reference, these were the other ideas from the

advisory panel:

•The planned national emergency department database

•IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series) datasets providing health and census data available through hospitals

•GP data (particularly with regard to developmental checks on height, weight and obesity)

•Immunisation records

•Blood spot (i.e. heel prick) screening data

•The unique health identifier (once implemented)