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Introduction
NHS Choices provides public access to health service related information via the web. This includes name, address, postcode, location and URL information for individual services (pharmacies, opticians, hospitals, doctors and dentists). Furthermore the URLs returned from NHS Choices link to a host of additional information, for example, contact information and opening times.
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Note: The ADS NHS Choices Downloader is only available to customers on iShare v4.4.6 or greater as it requires OGR 1.8 to connect to the WFS connection. However there is known issue with OGR 1.8 truncating some of the fields. This is due to how OGR determines (guesses) the field types; it scans the first few features it encounters to determine types and lengths which in this case isn't sufficient. Upgrading to use OGR 1.9 is sufficient in this instance to overcome the issue as the fields are "character varying" which is ideal. If you have encountered this problem please log on to the Helpdesk and Customer portal to create a Support Request outlining the problem and you will be provided with the necessary files and instructions. OGR 2.4.0 will be included in iShare V5.10.0. |
Why ADS?
There is a limit on the number of results returned from the NHS API (max 100 records per request, having 10 records per page)
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