VIVALDI Social Care Database
Infections in care home residents
Current methodology as of 15/07/2026: The VIVALDI Social Care Database will store data on infections, hospital attendances, vaccinations, antibiotic prescriptions, and deaths in older adults who live in care homes. This information will be anonymized (names and dates of birth removed) so it will not be possible to link data back to individuals. There is no national database of people who live in care homes, so the first step is to create one. We will extract NHS numbers for residents from the companies that provide electronic records to care homes and transfer these lists to NHS England. NHS England will use the NHS number to create a new, unique number for each record, and will then delete the NHS number. Next, they will transfer the dataset to a secure environment called the Data Processing Services (DPS) platform, which has been designed to store national health and social care datasets. The VIVALDI Research Database will be created by linking the list of care home residents to other NHS records that are held in the DPS platform using each record's unique number. The dataset will be updated regularly, and an anonymized copy of it will be transferred to the UCL Data Safe Haven, a secure datastore, for analysis by researchers. _____ Previous methodology: The VIVALDI Social Care Database will store data on infections, hospital attendances, vaccinations, antibiotic prescriptions, and deaths in older adults who live in care homes. This information will be anonymized (names and dates of birth removed) so it will not be possible to link data back to individuals. There is no national database of people who live in care homes, so the first step is to create one. We will extract NHS numbers for residents from the companies that provide electronic records to care homes and transfer these lists to NHS England. NHS England will use the NHS number to create a new, unique number for each record, and will then delete the NHS number. Next, they will transfer the dataset to a
Care home residents over the age of 65 years in England
1. Care home residents under the age of 65 years 2. Care-home residents at participating homes who opt out from data collection