The use of MOGREPS ensemble rainfall forecasts in operational flood forecasting systems across England and Wales by J. Schellekens, A. H. Weerts, R. J. Moore, C. E. Pierce, S. Hildon

“…It is tested for operational use within the Environment Agency's National Flood Forecasting System (NFFS) for England and Wales. Currently, the NFFS uses deterministic forecasts only. …”
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Building a birth cohort of births and their outcome in England and Wales using linkage of administrative data by Alison Macfarlane, Nirupa Dattani

“…Background/rationale When a baby is born in England and Wales, the event is recorded in several separate systems, each of which contains different data items. …”
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The uptake of new knee replacement implants in the UK: Analysis of the National Joint Registry for England and Wales by Penfold, CM, Blom, AW, Wilkinson, JM, Judge, A, Whitehouse, MR

“…</p><br /> <p><strong>Methods:</strong><br /> A cohort of 722,178 primary KRs performed for osteoarthritis (with or without other indications) by 2675 consultant surgeons between 2008 and 2017 in England and Wales from the National Joint Registry was examined. …”

Variation in hospital performance for heart failure management in the National Heart Failure Audit for England and Wales by Emdin, C, Conrad, N, Kiran, A, Khorshidi, G, Woodward, M, Anderson, S, Mohseni, H, Rahimi, K, Dargie, H, Hardman, S, McDonagh, T, McMurray, J, Cleland, J

“…<br/><br/>Methods: We used the National Heart Failure Audit comprising 68,772 patients with heart failure with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (HFREF), admitted to 185 hospitals in England and Wales (2007-2013). We investigated hospital adherence to three recommended key performance measures (KPM) for in-hospital care (ACE-inhibitors or ARBs on discharge, beta-blockers on discharge, and referral to specialist follow-up) individually and as a composite performance score. …”

Social inequalities in low birth weight in England and Wales: trends and implications for future population health. by Moser, K, Li, L, Power, C

“…STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine social inequalities and trends in low birth weight in England and Wales. DESIGN: Analysis of routine birth data, comparing (a) couple and sole registered births, and (b) manual and non-manual occupational groups. …”

Direct harms and social consequences: An analysis of the impact of maternal imprisonment on dependent children in England and Wales by Minson, S

“…This article draws upon research with children whose mothers were imprisoned in England and Wales, to investigate the impacts of maternal imprisonment on dependent children. …”

Forecasting spatial, socioeconomic and demographic variation in COVID-19 health care demand in England and Wales by Verhagen, M, Brazel, D, Dowd, J, Kashnitsky, I, Mills, M

“…</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> Combining census estimates and hospital capacity data from ONS and NHS at the Administrative Region, Ceremonial County (CC), Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) level from England and Wales, we calculate the number of individuals at risk of COVID-19 hospitalization. …”

Occupation and malignant melanoma: a study based on cancer registration data in England and Wales and in Sweden. by Vågerö, D, Swerdlow, A, Beral, V

“…The data relate to 3991 cases of cutaneous malignant melanoma, 662 cases of ocular melanoma, and 179 cases of noncutaneous, non-ocular melanoma in subjects aged 15-64 in England and Wales diagnosed from 1971 to 1978 and to 5003 cases of cutaneous malignant melanoma diagnosed from 1961 to 1979 in Sweden in subjects born between 1896 and 1940. …”

Reply: Population change, population mixing and incidence of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in England and Wales by Stiller, C, Kroll, M, Boyle, P, Feng, Z

Preventable suicides involving medicines: a systematic case series of coroners' reports in england and wales. by Anthony, G, Aronson, J, Brittain, R, Heneghan, C, Richards, GC

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> In England and Wales coroners have a duty to write a report, called a Prevention of Future Deaths report or PFD, when they believe that actions should be taken to prevent future deaths. …”

To what extent have changes in channel capacity contributed to flood hazard trends in England and Wales? by Slater, L

Surveillance of congenital Zika syndrome in England and Wales: methods and results of laboratory, obstetric and paediatric surveillance. by Oeser, C, Aarons, E, Heath, P, Johnson, K, Khalil, A, Knight, M, Lynn, R, Morgan, D, Pebody, R

Drought and water scarcity management policy in England and Wales: current failings and the potential of civic innovation by Grecksch, K, Landström, C

“…Drought management in England and Wales takes place in a narrow, confined governance space. …”

Trends in mortality and hospital admission rates for abdominal aortic aneurysm in England and Wales, 1979-1999. by Filipovic, M, Goldacre, M, Roberts, SE, Yeates, D, Duncan, M, Cook-Mozaffari, P

“…METHODS: This was an analysis of routine statistics from 79 495 death certificates in England and Wales and 3217 hospital inpatient admissions in the Oxford Region. …”

Pathological correlates of late-onset dementia in a multicentre, community-based population in England and Wales by Esiri, M, Matthews, F, Brayne, C, Ince, P, Matthews, F, Xuereb, J, Broome, J, McKenzie, J, Rossi, M, McKeith, I, Lowe, J, Morris, J, Council, NGMR

Birthweight and gestational age by ethnic group, England and Wales 2005: introducing new data on births. by Moser, K, Stanfield, K, Leon, D

“…Since information on ethnic group is not recorded at birth registration in England and Wales, it has not been possible to produce routine statistics on birthweight or gestational age by ethnic group. …”

Consent for medical treatment of trans youth: a comparative analysis of the law in Australia and in England and Wales by Jowatt, S, Mathews, B, Herring, J

“…First, this article examines general principles in relation to consent for children’s medical care, then charts the development of those principles through key cases that have shaped this particular area of law in Australia, England and Wales. These developments are then synthesised and compared in respect of the extent to which they promote or impede autonomous decision-making in the respective jurisdictions. …”

Wastewater discharges and urban land cover dominate urban hydrology signals across England and Wales by Coxon, G, McMillan, H, Bloomfield, JP, Bolotin, L, Dean, JF, Kelleher, C, Slater, L, Zheng, Y

“…We demonstrate that wastewater discharges from sewage treatment plants and urban land cover dominate urban hydrology signals across England and Wales. Wastewater discharges increase low flows and reduce flashiness in urban catchments. …”

Using geographically weighted regression to explore the spatially heterogeneous spread of bovine tuberculosis in England and Wales by Brunton, L, Alexander, N, Wint, W, Ashton, A, Broughan, J

“…This is the first attempt to explore the factors associated with the spread of endemic bTB in England and Wales using GWR. This technique improves on least-squares linear regression approaches by identifying regional differences in the factors associated with bTB spread. …”

COVID-19 and influenza vaccine uptake among pregnant women in national cohorts of England and Wales by Gu, X, Agrawal, U, Midgley, W, Bedston, S, Anand, SN, Goudie, R, Byford, R, Joy, M, Jamie, G, Hoang, U, Ordóñez-Mena, JM, Robertson, C, Hobbs, FDR, Akbari, A, Sheikh, A, de Lusignan, S