Synthetic Patient Appointment Dataset

A synthetic dataset of patient appointments, referrals, and journeys to a fictional service in the North East of England. The code can be adjusted to incorporate any area on mainland Great Britain. NI or the islands can be integrated too, however the structure of postcode, GP and OSA public data is different, and data input handlers will need to be adjusted. The behaviour of the patients (visiting their nearby GP followed by attending a specialist clinic), appointments (clinic appointments within 7day-6weeks of the referral (gp appointment)), and facilities (one major facility taking the load, along with minor facilities) is meant to mirror the real data used under Pilot 2 of the Track & Know Project. Real postcodes, from Royal Mail, are used to generate the appointment population, real facilities are used based on the British Lung Foundations study of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea, and real GP's are used based on public data from the NHS.