FOI2026/2086

I am requesting statistical information concerning the identification of members of the Armed Forces community within GP patient records in your Integrated Care Board area.

For the most recent available snapshot, please provide the following for each GP practice within your ICB area:

• GP practice name
• GP practice ODS code
• total registered patient population
• number of unique currently registered patients whose GP record contains each of the following SNOMED CT concepts:
  1. 753651000000107 – Military veteran
  2. 702348006 – Active military duty
  3. 933041000000109 – Armed Forces Reservist
  4. 988811000000102 – Family of active serving member of the Armed Forces
  5. 844341000000104 – Dependant of former serving member of British Armed Forces

Please provide a separate unique patient count for each SNOMED CT concept rather than combining them into a single Armed Forces total.

If the ICB routinely uses any additional SNOMED CT concepts specifically to identify members of the Armed Forces community, please provide those codes and counts where readily available.

I recognise that practice-level information may produce small numbers. I am requesting aggregate statistical information only and no personally identifiable patient information.

Where your disclosure-control policy would normally require suppression of small numbers, I am content for:

• a genuine zero to be reported as 0
• any count between 1 and 5 to be reported as 1–5 or ≤5
• exact figures to be provided for larger counts where permitted.

If your disclosure-control policy requires a different small-number band, please provide the narrowest band permitted rather than suppressing the value entirely, where possible.

Please confirm:

• the date of the data or snapshot provided
• the number of GP practices covered by the data
• the total number of GP practices within the ICB
• whether any GP practices or clinical systems are excluded.

An excel document was sent to the requester with this response.  If you require a copy of the full response, together with the attachments, please contact NHS GM’s FOI team – nhsgm.foi@nhs.net