The primary care data are near real time, longitudinal and representative of the UK population and can be linked to a range of health-related datasets.
CPRD is a government research service and operates on a cost-recovery basis. We do not charge for data but we do apply charges to cover the cost of delivering our real world data access service including processing, governance and access infrastructure. We ensure charges are applied fairly and consistently, broadly determined by the amount of effort and approvals required.
All prices quoted are exclusive of VAT.
The prices below are applicable from April 2023.
- Data access licensing options
- CPRD linked data access fees
- Data redelivery charges
- Synthetic data access fees
Data access licensing options
Access to CPRD data can be provided by a multi-study annual licence or on an individual study dataset licence basis.
Multi-study annual licence (MSL) to CPRD primary care data
Data from CPRD GOLD and CPRD Aurum can be accessed for any number permitted studies within the licence terms over a 12-month period:
| Features | BASIC* | STANDARD* | FULL |
| Price | £45,000 | £82,500 | £363,000 |
| Data Access | |||
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| CPRD Aurum Primary Care Database via Multi Study Licence | ü | ü | ü |
| 2 Nominated Users | ü | ü | ü |
| 4 Nominated Users | ° | ü | |
| Ability to add additional Nominated Users | ü | ü | |
| Ability to add Linked Data MSLs | ü | ü | |
| HES APC Linked Data (Included) | ü | ü | |
| Practice Level IMD Linked Data (Included) | ü | ü | |
| Patient Level IMD Linked Data (Included) | ü | ü | |
| Rural-Urban Classification Linked Data (Included) | ü | ü | |
| Townsend Index Linked Data (Included) | ü | ü | |
| Carstairs Index Linked Data (Included) | ü | ü | |
| CCG Flag (Included) | ü | ü | |
| Office for National Statistics (ONS) Data (Included) | ü | ||
| Ability to add Sub-licence Access | ü | ü | |
| Ability to use External / Data Sharing Platform | ü | ü | |
| Research Services | |||
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| Named Account Manager | ü | ü | |
| Named Contract Manager | ü | ü | |
| Free Linked Data Feasibility Counts | ü | ü | |
| Licence Agreement | |||
| Flexible T&Cs | ü | ü | |
| Flexible payment terms | ü | ü | |
| Multi-year agreement options | ü | ü | |
*Basic MSL and Standard MSL are only available to non-commercial organisations
Individual dataset study licence
Enables access to CPRD primary care datasets which may be sourced from CPRD GOLD, CPRD Aurum or both databases for an individual specific approved study:
- Full Dataset Licence fee: up to £66,000
- Non-Commercial Dataset Licence fee: £16,500
CPRD linked data access fees
| Commercial | Non-commercial | ||||
| Dataset type | Dataset | Single study dataset fee | Multi-study licence fee | Single study dataset fee | Multi-study licence fee |
| Linked NHS Digital datasets: |
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£4,400 per dataset | £16,500 per dataset | £4,400 per dataset | £16,500 per dataset |
| Linked Small Area Level datasets1 |
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£600 per dataset | £5,500 for all datasets | £600 per dataset | £5,500 for all datasets |
| Algorithm-derived data | Pregnancy Register and Mother-Baby Link2 | £7,000 | £27,900 | £1,800 | £7,000 |
| Mother-Baby Link | £2,800 | N/A | £600 | N/A | |
| Ethnicity Record | £7,000 | £27,900 | £1,800 | £7,000 | |
| Linked NHS Digital National Disease Registration Service (NDRS) datasets | Cancer registration data | £12,800 | N/A | £12,800 | N/A |
| Cancer registration data + SACT or radiotherapy data | £14,100 | N/A | £14,100 | N/A | |
| Cancer registration data + SACT + radiotherapy data | £16,300 | N/A | £16,300 | N/A | |
| COVID-19 datasets | Second Generation Surveillance System (SGSS) only | £4,400 | N/A | £4,400 | N/A |
| COVID-19 Hospitalisation in England Surveillance System (CHESS) only | £4,400 | N/A | £4,400 | N/A | |
| SGSS and CHESS together | £7,700 | N/A | £7,700 | N/A | |
| Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC) Critical Care dataset | £7,700 | N/A | £7,700 | N/A | |
1 Single-study requests for patient and practice level for the same Small Area Level dataset will be charged £600 only, for e.g., patient level IMD alone is £600, patient level and practice level IMD together is £600. Single-study requests for two different Small Area Level datasets will be charged at £600 each, e.g., patient level RUC and practice level IMD is £1,200.
2 The Pregnancy Register and Mother-Baby Link fees include access to both the CPRD GOLD and CPRD Aurum versions of these registries, i.e. customers may request one version or both versions for a single data access fee. Customers who licence Pregnancy Register data will also be entitled to Mother-Baby Link data without additional charge, subject to the necessary RDG approvals being in place.
Data redelivery charges
Redelivery charges apply where multiple data requests are submitted for the same study protocol.
| MSL holder and individual dataset study licence holder | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Care | Linked data* | NCRAS (top up cost) | |
| Commercial | £11,000 | £2,200 | £12,800 - £16,300 |
| Non-Commercial | £5,500 | £1,100 | £12,800 - £16,300 |
*For Individual dataset study licence, linked data must also include primary care data as it cannot be provided separately.
Synthetic data access fees
| MSL holder | Non-MSL holder | ||
| Medium-fidelity datasets | CPRD GOLD and CPRD Aurum Sample Datasets together | £0 | £1,500 |
| High-fidelity datasets* | CPRD Cardiovascular disease synthetic dataset | £200 | £200 |
| CPRD COVID-19 symptoms and risk factors synthetic dataset | £200 | £200 |
*For non-teaching applications like complex statistical analyses as well as machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) research applications. Where the COVID-19 and Cardiovascular synthetic datasets will be used for teaching, there is a £1,100 fee applicable per dataset.
Please contact enquiries@cprd.com for further information or if you have any questions.