FTI Consulting: FTI Consulting requires Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data to provide services to NHS organisations - specifically to undertake financial and economic analyses for NHS trusts,

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

Organisation: FTI Consulting
Source reference: DARS-NIC-14455-D2N8Z-v0.2
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-14455-D2N8Z-v0.2
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: 6

Data approved

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

Objective, as published

FTI Consulting requires Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data to provide services to NHS organisations - specifically to undertake financial and economic analyses for NHS trusts, Foundation trusts, CCGs, Monitor and NHS England only. FTI Consulting’s services are normally through a public sector framework (e.g. Monitor framework, Elis Framework, or sometimes via a non-competitive tender). FTI Consulting works with NHS trusts and CCGs across England. Though to date, FTI Consulting has tended to work more with CCGs and NHS providers located in North West England, Essex and London, it does not focus on any particular region and hence needs access to a national database. Moreover, the work involves benchmarking across regions to help inform a particular CCGs or Trusts strengths and weaknesses – for which access to national data is a prerequisite. FTI Consulting also works with national bodies such as Monitor and NHS England and hence requires access to national HES data. In any financial year, FTI Consulting typically undertakes between 15 and 20 projects. Each project usually involves multiple CCGs and providers. For example, a recent piece of benchmarking performed for NHS England required the provision of benchmarking analysis for 32 CCGs. In another recent piece of work for Liverpool CCG, involved demand analysis for 9 NHS providers. This work is commissioned by these bodies when they are seeking a) analysis of performance improvement opportunities, b) analysis of options f…

Expected benefits, as published

Benefits would include enhanced forecasting of demand to enable the NHS and its components to more effectively invest in resources. It will allow providers to identify where they are under-performing compared to peers and therefore where there is potential for improvement (e.g. by reducing average length of stay for particular specialities down to the average of a comparable peer group). The provider organisation will need to change practices in line with FTI Consulting’s recommendations, based on the analysis FTI Consulting have carried out. Forecasting would be both long-term (5-10 years) and day-to-day (demand spikes). Where FTI Consulting has been commissioned to support a provider with analysis of their performance, FTI Consulting will charge for its work in line with procured rates.…

Source: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/2019/http://content.digital.nhs.uk/media/22305/Data-Release-Register-April-to-August-2016/xls/Data_Release_Register__April_-_August_2016.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.