Discovery Data Service status
- The data service is live.
- It currently stores and processes the data from 28 million linked organisational patient records in the UK.
- It contains long term records on 14 million unique UK citizens who have been resident in London at some point in the last 30 years (including people who have left or died).
- Data on individuals are held in a single common data model with data values represented by a super ontology composed of the world's leading health ontologies.
- Data in Discovery is submitted by health providers who provide primary, secondary, and urgent care services to patients or clients.
- Data is kept up to date in close to real time - at worst within 24 hours; see Latency of extract data feeds for more details.