KINGSTON HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST: Kingston Hospital Foundation Trust (KHFT) is a busy NHS hospital in South West London (SWL), serving a catchment of 350,000.

Data-sharing agreement from NHS Digital registers of approved data releases, 2014–2019. Evidence status: source reported.

Organisation: KINGSTON HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Source reference: DARS-NIC-09949-T4N3W-v2.2
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-09949-T4N3W-v2.2
Agreement period: not published to no end date published
For commercial purposes (as marked in the register): Not stated
Release files listed by NHS England: 36

Data approved

HES Data Interrogation System
Hospital Episode Statistics Outpatients
Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care
Hospital Episode Statistics Accident and Emergency
Hospital Episode Statistics Critical Care

Objective, as published

Kingston Hospital Foundation Trust (KHFT) is a busy NHS hospital in South West London (SWL), serving a catchment of 350,000. The trust's clinical services include:  An A&E department seeing 110,000 patients p.a.,  A paediatric department providing services including continuing cancer care to local children,  A large maternity department, delivering around 5,400 women p.a.,  Comprehensive emergency services including a stroke ward and two full-time emergency theatres, and  Planned services encompassing 350,000 outpatients and 30,000 admissions p.a. across a wide range of surgical and medical specialties. The planning and strategic development team at KHFT is responsible for a wide range of activities, including:  Trust level activity, capacity and income modelling,  Development of strategies to ensure achievement of key goals,  Development of business cases for investment,  Benchmarking performance against peers to inform the productivity programme and deliver high quality care,  Monitoring changes in the external environment and local health economy and supplying business intelligence to clinical teams and the Board. The NHS is in a time of significant flux, and NHS hospitals operate with a great deal of uncertainty. It is more important than ever that hospitals understand their own business, and how they sit in the local healthcare economy, to enable development of a clear strategy. Funding is falling, and significant savings need to be delivered every year, meani…

Expected benefits, as published

Productivity and efficiency benchmarking outputs will continue to help shape KHFT’s CIP programme. Meeting CIP targets is vital to the continued financial stability of the trust and the local healthcare economy. In addition, benchmarking of performance contributes to continuous improvement in patient experience and clinical outcomes. The descriptions of previous workstreams are examples of analyses KHFT has already undertaken. Over the next 12 months, it is expected that HES data will continue to be used for similar workstreams. 1) Scenario modelling – understanding how patient flows will change if clinical services were reconfigured across SWL The outputs from this modelling mean that judgement calls can be made about the likelihood of various scenarios, based on indicators such as flows…

Source: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/2019/https://digital.nhs.uk/binaries/content/assets/website-assets/services/dars/release-registers/releaseregister20190901_20190930.xlsx. Captured 2026-10-30.

Limitations: Agreement as recorded in an NHS Digital register of approved data releases (2014–2019), retrieved from the UK Government Web Archive. That register lists releases made in its period and the agreement's purpose statement as it then stood; it gives no agreement dates, and the agreement may have changed since. Imported only where a paper quotes a reference no current register holds.