Freedom of Information request: enquiry about CPRD and Pneumococcal Disease Data, 2018, 2019, 2020 (FOI-21-107)
Published 24 March 2021
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Thank you for your information request, dated 30th January 2021, where you asked for the following information:
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Is the CPRD under the MHRA and therefore subject to freedom of information requests?
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Please advise incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease in the database by year and age group for 2018, 2019 & 2020?
To answer the first part of your request I can confirm that CPRD is a centre of the MHRA and is subject to Freedom of Information Requests.
Regarding the second part of your request, I can confirm that we do not hold the information that you have requested. The information could only be obtained by designing and running a study of the CPRD database and undertaking further analysis to identify the numbers involved. The FOIA does not oblige a public authority to create information to answer a request if the requested information is not held. The duty is to only provide the recorded information held.
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