Rod Gibson Associates Ltd: This application is requesting to continue to hold the HES data previously disseminated under NIC-15402-M9L6Z and to request 2 additional years of the HES data for 2015/16 and 2016

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

Organisation: Rod Gibson Associates Ltd
Source reference: DARS-NIC-15402-M9L6Z-v1.13
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-15402-M9L6Z-v1.13
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: 6

Data approved

Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care

Objective, as published

This application is requesting to continue to hold the HES data previously disseminated under NIC-15402-M9L6Z and to request 2 additional years of the HES data for 2015/16 and 2016/17. Purpose 1 To continue providing aggregate maternity indicators for the “Which? Birth Choice” website www.which.co.uk/birth-choice. This website is owned by the consumer organisation “Which?” and is for pregnant women to help them find the right place to give birth. It was launched in January 2014. It displays maternity statistics in an easily accessible form to women to help them make a decision about who should provide their maternity care. As part of the information given to women, Rod Gibson Associates (RGA) Ltd supplies maternity statistics to “Which?”, under contract, for display on their website. This information is provided as a public service and is made available free of charge without the need for registration. Purpose 2 To continue providing aggregate maternity indicators for the BirthChoiceUK website http://www.birthchoiceuk.com This website is owned jointly by Rod Gibson Associates (RGA) Ltd and Miranda Dodwell, an individual lay maternity representative. The website has been in existence for 16 years, since June 2001, helping women choose where to have their baby. Since the launch of the “Which? Birth Choice” website, BirthChoiceUK has shifted its primary focus to providing easy access to maternity statistics to those informing women about their choices. It also provides more con…

Expected benefits, as published

Purpose 1 To continue providing aggregate maternity indicators for the “Which? Birth Choice” website www.which.co.uk/birth-choice. Providing access to this data in an accessible format allows users to compare maternity services, make informed choices and manage expectations about their experience of maternity care, and thereby promotes health literacy. The substantial investment in mobile friendly web development made by “Which?” coupled with Which’s reputation as a consumer champion has extended the reach of BirthChoiceUK’s earlier website. The novel and unique woman-centred maternity indicators have added to the appeal of the site which is being accessed by an ever growing audience. Combined figures for web traffic suggest current annual equivalents in the region of half a million visit…

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.

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.