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Heat or sunstroke GP in-hours daily consultation rate

Last updated on Thursday, 10 July 2025 at 12:19pm

Summary

Topic
heat-or-sunstroke
Category
syndromic
API name
heat-or-sunstroke_syndromic_GPInHours_rateByDay

Rationale

Monitoring trends in daily GP in-hours consultation rates can provide an early warning of human public health threats and provide detail to inform public health action.

Definition

This metric reports the consultation rate per 100,000 people, for heat or sunstroke at participating GP practices in England.

Methodology

Heat or sunstroke issues are identified from the diagnoses recorded during GP in-hours consultations. The diagnoses are based on signs and or symptoms and may not be lab confirmed.

The data presented are based on a sentinel syndromic surveillance system, not all GP practices in England are included. We receive an automated feed of anonymised GP in-hours consultation data from participating practices from 2 sources: The Phoenix Partnership (TPP) and Oxford Royal College of General Practitioners Clinical Informatics Digital Hub (ORCHID).

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