Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)

Introduction

Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) Automatic Data Collection is a process that collects, encrypts and sends data, for those practices that subscribe, to the CPRD service. Please refer to the CPRD website for details.

The scheduled collections require no interaction from the practice and are processed as part of your daily GPC schedule.

  • If you are a LAN practice, the automatic collection happens as part of the DLM process.
Note - For LAN sites automatic collection does not happen if you have disabled DLM’s through GP Communicator – Options - Scheduler or, you do not leave Mail Gateway running overnight. If DLM is not enabled to run when a collection is due, a collection is made during the next DLM run.
  • If you are a managed server practice (AEROS), collections are managed overnight by Cegedim Healthcare Solutions according to the chosen collection frequency.

CPRD Data Collection also enables practices, to submit electronic manual incremental/recollection data collection (IDC) if required.

See Running an Incremental/Recollection CPRD Collection for details.