LONDON NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST: The National Clinical Audit of Specialist Rehabilitation following Major Injury (NCASRI) was commissioned in 2015 by the Health Care Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), and fun

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

Organisation: LONDON NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST
Source reference: DARS-NIC-131964-Q6L1J-v0.8
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-131964-Q6L1J-v0.8
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
Office for National Statistics Mortality Data

Objective, as published

The National Clinical Audit of Specialist Rehabilitation following Major Injury (NCASRI) was commissioned in 2015 by the Health Care Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), and funded by NHS England as part of its National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP). King's College London provide HQIP with advice on the audit and have submitted the application for data on behalf of HQIP. It is HQIP who determine the purpose and are acting as Data Controllers. It is a three-year programme which will determine the scope, provision, quality and efficiency of specialist rehabilitation services across England and improve the quality of care for adults with complex rehabilitation needs following Major Trauma. Outcomes and quality of care will be evaluated in accordance with standards and recommendations laid out in national documents from the Department of Health and NHS England (NHSE), the British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine (BSRM) and the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE). An organisational audit, mapping the current rehabilitation service provision and performance against the standards were reported on after the first year of the audit (July 2015 – June 2016). The second year of the NCASRI audit focused on a prospective clinical audit of new patients presenting within NHS Major Trauma Centres (MTCs) who have complex needs and receive specialist rehabilitation (July 2016 – August 2017). The focus of the second year of the audit has involved track…

Expected benefits, as published

Overall, the NCASRI programme aims to determine the scope, provision, quality and cost-efficiency of specialist rehabilitation services for adults with complex needs following major injury across England. It will provide high quality comparative data on service provision and outcomes across different providers, mapped onto national quality standards for rehabilitation from the National Service Framework for Long Term Conditions (NSF for LTC), the British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine (BSRM), NHS England and NICE. The feasibility study will identify if it is possible to use HES, HRG and ONS data to identifying the pathway and outcomes from existing data sources for patients who require specialist rehabilitation on discharge from MTCs, but do not subsequently attend. It is anticipated…

Source: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/2019/https://digital.nhs.uk/binaries/content/assets/website-assets/service/dars/release-registers/releaseregister20180301_20180524.xlsx. Captured 2026-10-30.

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