COVID-19 spring 2024 campaign: Cohort identification methodology

The NHS England Vaccination Programme commissioned NHS England Vaccine Digital Services to flow patient identifiable data to their Data Processing Service and Foundry.

This data is to be used within the COVID-19 spring 2024 campaign for:

• call and recall
• reporting
• monitoring purposes

NHS England Vaccination Programme commissioned NHS England Cohorting as a Service to provide patient identifiable cohorts for the clinical at-risk groups as outlined in tables 3 and 4 of Chapter 14a of the Green Book.

NHS England Vaccine Digital Services and NHS England Vaccination Programme have stated that patients within the immunosuppressed and 75 years or over clinical risk groups are suitable for clinical assessment for a COVID-19 vaccine.

A patient cohort has been created and made available in NHS England's Data Processing Service (DPS) to enable the national call and recall process. The data will be available to Foundry for call and recall, monitoring and reporting purposes.