Mapping NHS patient choice policies across England: Referral data to NHS and private providers, June 2008 – March 2024

Guy, Mary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0242-6366 and Newcombe, Lee (2025) Mapping NHS patient choice policies across England: Referral data to NHS and private providers, June 2008 – March 2024. [Data Collection]

Abstract

This dataset comprises publicly-available NHS information about GP and other practitioner referrals of NHS patients for a first outpatient appointment with either an NHS or a private provider during the period June 2008 and March 2024. It is made up from publicly-available NHS data from the Monthly Activity Return (MAR) which was in operation June 2008 – March 2020, and the Monthly Referral Return (MRR) which was in operation June 2020 – March 2024.
The MRR dataset focuses on GP and other practitioner referrals of NHS patients for a first outpatient appointment with either an NHS or a private provider, so is replicated in full with distinctions highlighted between NHS and private providers.
The MAR data collection was broader, so has been edited to focus on GP and other practitioner referrals of NHS patients for a first outpatient appointment with either an NHS or a private provider. Again, distinctions between NHS and private providers are highlighted.

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Read me file uploaded. AT 22/07/2025 Depositing user's licence comment:

Creators:

Guy, Mary

and Newcombe, Lee

Uncontrolled Keywords:

440706 Health policy; 480412 Medical and health law

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24377/LJMU.d.00000242

Division:

Law

Field of Research:

Human society > Policy and administration > Health policy
Law and legal studies > Law in context > Medical and health law

Date Deposited:

12 Aug 2025 09:28

Last Modified:

12 Aug 2025 09:28

URI:

https://opendata.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/242

Data collection method:

Document analysis

Grant number:

QRPSF award

Resource language:

English

Metadata language:

English

Collection period:

From	To
8 November 2023	1 July 2025

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