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This project aimed to develop a model of health care use, using the most appropriate econometric techniques. The first step was to model health care demand in the Solihull Primary Care Trust (PCT) (now Solihull NHS Care Trust) area as defined by GP visits, inpatient visits and outpatient visits. The next step was to make forecasts of demand based on a range of scenarios. The aim was to provide the Trust with a model that they could use to run their own bespoke demographic and lifestyle scenarios to calculate future changes demand for health services.
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The data files comprise anonymised accident and emergency, general practitioner, inpatient and outpatient data from the Solihull PCT/NHS Care Trust from 2005-2011. The files are CSV outputs from a database. Users should note that many of the files are in .txt format and rather than commas, the separator characters may be '|' or '^'. The large size of the data files may mean that they are not suitable for analysis in Excel or standard text editors.