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Changes to region definitions

Last updated on Monday, 2 September 2024 at 04:04pm

Entry description:

The NHS has made some changes to its geographic regions which affects some of the data on the dashboard.

The NHS Trust St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has merged with Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. This affects COVID-19 data for patients and admissions to these hospitals. The data for both trusts have merged. This will also affect the previous time series for this data.

Some other changes affect users of our API extracting data using geography_code:

  • the NHS Region "Midlands" was [E40000008] and is now [E40000011]
  • the NHS Region ''North East and Yorkshire" [E45000009] is now [E40000012]
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