UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF NORTH MIDLANDS NHS TRUST: A merger has taken place between the former University Hospital of North Staffordshire (RJE) and Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust (RJD) to create the University Hospital of North

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

Organisation: UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF NORTH MIDLANDS NHS TRUST
Source reference: DARS-NIC-12406-X5D0K-v0.13
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-12406-X5D0K-v0.13
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: 3

Data approved

Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care
Hospital Episode Statistics Accident and Emergency
Hospital Episode Statistics Outpatients

Objective, as published

A merger has taken place between the former University Hospital of North Staffordshire (RJE) and Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust (RJD) to create the University Hospital of North Midlands (RJE or ‘UHNM’). In line with UHMN’s core objective of becoming one of the top University Teaching Hospitals within the UK, this strategy means that UHNM will be a much more integrated and flexible provider within the local and regional health economies with a larger regional role and a changed service portfolio. UHNM provides acute hospital service across 23 CCGs across the Midlands and North West. In addition, UHNM also provides specialised services for 3 million people in a wider area include neighbouring counties and North Wales. The purpose of UHNM acquiring access to HDIS is to provide intelligence of the activity occurring within the regions in which the Trust operates, describing patient flows between organisations. For example, patients that are local to the former MSFT may now be being seen at the Royal Stoke hospital, creating pressure on those services. Alternatively, patients may be migrating to Wolverhampton or to the Private sector. UHNM analysis covers activity within inpatient and outpatient settings for a specific set of providers and commissioners. Access to HDIS allows UHNM to extract only the specific data required and thus minimises the data used to meet the objectives set out. One specific use of HDIS is the production of the UHNM's annual plan. This process runs an…

Expected benefits, as published

The outputs are intended for use within UHNM to allow it to benchmark and improve its own performance. The intention is not for submission to external publications etc. and UHNM would never undertake commercial requests. The Trust does work within its local sustainability and transformation programme (STP) which covers the whole of Staffordshire and as part of this may share the outputs of the analyses. Any outputs will be aggregate data with small numbers supressed in line with the HES analysis guide . Given that UHNM are the biggest Trust in the area and a tertiary centre. UHNM access most aspects of the data and share it internally with directorate managers and senior clinicians. The key output of using HDIS is in production of the Trust annual Plan. The benefits of the plan are : • Cl…

Source: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/2019/https://digital.nhs.uk/binaries/content/assets/legacy/excel/2/1/releaseregister20171201_20180228.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.