When is 2016's MPI table for MHSDS going to be available?

[Nininn]

Question / Problem statement

I am conscious that Simona already raised this in May and you are currently following this up. Could I please check when the 2016 MPI table will be available?

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[zcabh35]

Howdy, the ECHILD team will contact you via email about this

[Nininn]

Great. Thanks!!

[zcabh35]

Howdy again, I've been told the MPI table contains the identifiers, which are also replicated in other tables. Thus the table may not necessarily be needed depend on the analysis

[Nininn]

Thanks for following this up. I checked the unique ids of individual patients in 2016 and there are about 30% not replicated in years (2017-2022). This is a substantial proportion to my study. Could you please help me rally this information to the NHS Digital team? I hope this could convince them to release the 2016 MPI table.

[LewisKate123]

Hi, sounds like the table is now available, which is good! @Nininn do you mind explaining a bit more about the problem you have described. Are you expecting a certain proportion of patients in 2016 to appear again in later years? Could it be that they are no longer accessing services? I really recommened using the referrals table (MHS101) as opposed to the MPI table as this gives dates of referrals as opposed to ID's of anyone in the dataset (some of which as likely to be legacy IDs anyway).