Table 1 Data-sharing community descriptions

From: Guiding interoperable electronic health records through patient-sharing networks

Community name

Number of hospitals

Total fragmented presentations

Previous provider located within community

Previous provider located outside community

% Within community

‘East Anglia’

10

537,408

385,490

151,918

71.73

‘Merseyside’

12

1,002,066

888,043

114,023

88.62

‘North East’

9

1,086,068

1,024,145

61,923

94.3

‘North London’

24

3,373,655

2,696,511

677,144

79.93

‘North West’

15

1,476,174

1,283,869

192,305

86.97

‘South’

16

1,157,703

754,640

403,063

65.18

‘South London and South East’

16

2,107,474

1,567,297

540,177

74.37

‘South West’

16

1,172,622

986,142

186,480

84.1

‘West Midlands’

16

1,343,370

1,137,792

205,578

84.7

‘Yorkshire and North Midlands’

21

1,492,251

1,256,115

236,136

84.18

  1. Table showing for each interaction with a provider in each community the proportion of times the patient’s previous secondary care interaction had been with a provider located inside or outside the community of that provider