Anonymity of patient data was protected by the UHBristol information analyst, who extracted the required data and provided it to the research team with all identifiers removed (date of birth and home postcode) and patient unique, non-identifiable identification numbers inserted. NHS BSA data was ...
Only 2.4% of records could not be georeferenced from the postcode. The age/gender distribution is presented in Figure 1. In all but one 5-year age band (16–20-year-olds) female patients were in the majority and 58.6% of the total patient population was female. Only 34 patients appeared...