This data defines the primary/current address details for an organisation or site. No address start/end dates are published, just the current/active address for each record.
ODS use Addressbase Premium as our address data supplier, it is the industry standard addressing database supplied by GeoPlace.
A PAFAddressBase endpoint populates address data into the ODS database. The PAFAddressBase endpoint combines a daily feed from Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF) with a 6-weekly feed of AddressBase Premium, providing access to PAF validated addresses, with a UPRN appended where one is matched.
Address Data Attributes
Master Data Attribute (ODS Internal Reference) | Attribute Type | Length | Nullable | Description / Notes | Mapping to ODS Data Search & Export field (excluding predefined reports) | Mapping to ORD API (ORD schema containers, elements and attributes) | Mapping to ODS STU3 API | Mapping to ODS FHIR R4 API Please refer to ODS FHIR R4 Implementation Guide and the OAS Specification | |
| Organization Resource | ODS Organisation CodeSystem | ||||||||
| address1 | [nvarchar] | 75 | NULL | Postal address line 1 | Address Line 1 | GeoLoc.Location.AddrLn1 | address.line | address.line | property.address1 |
| address2 | [nvarchar] | 75 | NULL | Postal address line 2 | Address Line 2 | GeoLoc.Location.AddrLn2 | address.line | address.line | property.address2 |
| address3 | [nvarchar] | 75 | NULL | Postal address line 3 | Address Line 3 | GeoLoc.Location.AddrLn3 | address.line | address.line | property.address3 |
| town | [nvarchar] | 75 | NULL | Town | Town | GeoLoc.Location.Town | address.city | address.city | property.town |
| county | [nvarchar] | 75 | NULL | County (not populated for new addresses since 2018 in line with the introduction of UPRN to ODS data) | Not available | GeoLoc.Location.County | address.district | address.district | |
| country | [nvarchar] | 100 | NOT NULL | Country (note that the Country for sites is set to reflect the Country of the owning/operating organisation, it is not derived from/part of the postal address of the site. e.g. a site could be located in Wales but the Country will be England if the parent org/HQ is in England). | Country | GeoLoc.Location.Country | address.country | address.country | property.country |
| postcode | [nvarchar] | 75 | NULL | Postcode is a primary address component applied to an organisation. It is used to define it's geographic location as well as various health and other geographic boundaries. | Postcode | GeoLoc.Location.PostCode | address.postalCode | address.postalCode | property.postcode |
| uprn | [bigint] | NULL | Unique Property Reference Number (where available). A unique identifier for spatial addresses in Great Britain. | UPRN | GeoLoc.Location.UPRN | extension: https://fhir.nhs.uk/STU3/StructureDefinition/Extension-ODSAPI-UPRN-1 | extension: https://fhir.hl7.org.uk/StructureDefinition/Extension-UKCore-AddressKey system = https://fhir.nhs.uk/R4/CodeSystem/UKCore-AddressKeyType | property.uprn | |
