National Health Service Patient Re-Registrations, 1990

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P>The National Health Service Central Register at Southport receives notifications of changes of a patient's Family Practitioner Committee. Such a change, or transfer, occurs when a patient registers with a new NHS doctor in an FPC other than that with which the patient was formerly registered. A 10% systematic sample of these transfers is taken. In Scotland, re-registrations between Area Health Boards are notified to the National Health Service Central Register, Scotland. In Northern Ireland re-registrations from other parts of the United Kingdom are notified to Central Services Agency, Belfast. (No information is available on movements within Northern Ireland). These data provide an indication of internal migration flows within the United Kingdom.<br>The record specification layout system changed during 1990, and re-registrations were added to the new system in 1991. The study contains five data files, one for each Quarter of 1990 in the old layout, and an additional one for Quarter 4, 1990 in the new record layout.<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR> Variables<br>
Age, sex, old registration area, new registration area.