NHS TRUST DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (NTDA): NHS Improvement is responsible for overseeing Foundation Trusts and NHS Trusts, as well as independent providers that provide NHS-funded care.

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

Organisation: NHS TRUST DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (NTDA)
Source reference: DARS-NIC-10279-J8L3R-v0.10
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-10279-J8L3R-v0.10
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: 4

Data approved

HES Data Interrogation System

Objective, as published

NHS Improvement is responsible for overseeing Foundation Trusts and NHS Trusts, as well as independent providers that provide NHS-funded care. It offers the support these providers need to give patients consistently safe, high quality, compassionate care within local health systems that are financially sustainable. By holding providers to account and, where necessary, intervening, it helps the NHS to meet its short-term challenges and secure its future. Data are used on a regular basis within the operating framework oversight and escalation reporting process (two indicators – emergency caesarean sections and 30 day readmissions). This metrics are separated into five domains: responsive, effective, safe, caring and well-led. Outputs form a part of the annual operating framework, which is used to monitor the performance of Trusts. The data are also used to support other work programmes including a community activity dashboard, a maternity dashboard, and a mortality toolkit . The community activity and maternity dashboards include indicators to monitor performance in these areas. The mortality toolkit has a range of indicators to support the main mortality indicators (Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI) and Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio (HSMR)), and helps to build up a rounded view of the performance of the Trust in this area. The indicators from HES include, among others, average length of stay of elective patients, outpatient first to follow-up ratio, an…

Expected benefits, as published

Access and use of this data is to support and guide Trusts in their provision of quality sustainable services on their way to achieving Foundation Trust status or an alternative viable solution. NHS Improvement acts as the leader of NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts in England. Typically this will involve discussions and assessments by colleagues in regional development teams with managers in trusts, and, also at an executive level. It is intended that the information obtained via HES is used as a driver to improve patient care. The organisation has used HDIS HES data to support the analysis of patient care and encourage improvement. The following are two specific examples to illustrate further how the data is used. The community services dashboard has been developed over the last two year…

Source: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/2019/http://content.digital.nhs.uk/media/24614/Release-Register-March---May-2017/xls/Release_Register__March_-_May_20171.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.