This work was funded by the Health Foundation. The Health Foundation is an independent charity committed to bringing about better health and health care for people in the UK. The Health Foundation funds the Networked Data Lab programme.
Networked Data Lab Wales (NDL Wales) is a collaboration across Public Health Wales (PHW), Swansea University (SAIL Databank), Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW), and Social Care Wales. NDL Wales includes Alisha Davies, Laura Bentley, Georgia Beckett-Hill, Jerlyn Peh, Karen Hodgson, Giles Greene, Jiao Song, Bethan Carter, Ashley Akbari, Owen Davies, Lisa Trigg, Gareth John, Joanna Dundon, Claire Newman. SAIL analyses were approved by SAIL Information Governance Review Panel (Project 1429). Thanks also to Claire Morgan from Carers Wales, Tim Banks from Carers Trust Wales, DHCW’s Patients and Public Assurance Group and Swansea University’s SAIL Consumer Panel for supporting our engagement.
With thanks to those from Neath Port Talbot Local Authority (Ian Rees, Marianne Matthews), Swansea Local Authority (Catherine Stallard, Andrew Fung, Rachel Thomas, Michelle Glen), Denbighshire Local Authority (Alison Hay, Dyfan Barr), Gwynedd Local Authority (Linda Evans, Dave Roberts, Mark Parry, Rhodri Owain Lloyd), and North East Wales Carers Information Service (Michael Langford) who provided both data and expert insight for this analysis.
We would also like to acknowledge all data providers who make anonymised data available for research. We would like to thank our colleagues Claudine Anderson, Danny Donovan and Chiara Tuveri in Public Health Wales who supported the delivery of this report.