Introduction
When I did some work on NHS Data in R, I discovered the challenge of NHS Organisation names. Firstly, they are long and clunky:
The Somewhere and Somewhere Else NHS Foundation Trust
is hardly a snappy name. And so people abbreviate it. Often within a locality people fairly consistently abbreviate, but there will be no easy way to unpick that. Using the daft example above you could abbreviate it:
TSSE
TSSE-FT
TSSE-NHS FT
SSE
S&SE
S+SE
SSFT
etc
In addition trusts can be known by their 3 letter ODS code, and it is sometimes desirable to translated the ODS code to the full name or a shortened name.
R Package
I have therefore created a few functions to try and make the process simpler and perhaps more consistent. And I’ve rapped these into a simple package.[1]
install.packages("remotes")
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