What causes NHS primary care services to become busier in the Winter and what can we do about it?

Registered study from ISRCTN registry. Evidence status: source reported.

Organisation

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Published

2025-02-24

Source reference

ISRCTN98501585

Jurisdiction

Not assessed

Licence

ISRCTN registry: metadata CC0, free text CC BY 4.0 (source: ISRCTN, www.isrctn.com). Contact details not imported.

Sponsor: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine · Observational study · Funders: National Institute for Health and Care Research · Conditions: Understanding pressure on primary and secondary care services within the NHS · Found via: OpenSAFELY

Source: https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN98501585. Captured 2026-10-29.

Limitations: Registration details as submitted to ISRCTN. Found by a keyword search for OpenSAFELY; the registration does not confirm that the study used that data resource, and no access authorisation is linked. Only registrations from 2019-02-01 are imported, so earlier studies are missing.