Not all NHS trusts from the NHS API are included in `trust_ltla_mapping` about covid19.nhs.data HOT 7 CLOSED

Hi everyone! Good news - update coming soon! I'm going to be updating the mapping with some more recent COVID-19 admissions data. I expect that this more recent version of the mapping will address the missing Trusts and a few other outstanding issues (#8 #26), too.
This data comes from a different source to the current data, so I'm going to include both versions of the mapping and use a function to access the data, rather than accessing it directly as it is currently. Hopefully it should be very easy to update any code that uses the mapping to use the function instead.
Any thoughts or suggestions welcome!

from covid19.nhs.data.

Both the mappings (and any future versions, if necessary) will be accessed through one function with an argument source (or similar), so you will still be able to access the current version of the mapping, if needed.

from covid19.nhs.data.

You're correct that I believe that only acute NHS Trusts are included in the mapping, and that Trust-LTLA pairs with fewer than 10 admissions are dropped. I would expect this to account for the majority of, if not all, missing Trusts in the mapping. If this is not the case, then it would be that they were not present in the raw data that we used to make the mapping.
We are now working on updating the mapping with a new and more recent data source. This will still focus on acute NHS Trusts, but should hopefully include more pairs that were initially excluded due to low (<10) counts as we will be using a longer time window (compared to January - September 2020).

from covid19.nhs.data.

Thank you for the clarification and the quick response.

I think that the "only acute NHS Trusts" complicates things indeed. If there is a way to include more Trusts that would be very helpful because as mentioned it is a substantial discrepancy (80+ Trusts) between the NHS API (live data) and this.

from covid19.nhs.data.

Hi all, many thanks for this package, it is great! I was wondering if there were any updates regarding the updated mapping discussed in the reply above? I would really like to use the package to map LTLAs to trusts, but there are many missing trusts that have large numbers of admissions (at least according to the latest PHE admissions data). If there was an updated mapping that dealt with these cases, then that would be really useful. Many thanks, TJ

from covid19.nhs.data.

Awesome. Maybe there is a legacy argument (or a year) so the previous mapping(s) are available from a unified API?

from covid19.nhs.data.

Awesome - many thanks Sophie!

from covid19.nhs.data.