NHS Berkshire West CCG: Commissioning To use pseudonymised data to provide intelligence to support the commissioning of health services.

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

Organisation: NHS Berkshire West CCG
Source reference: DARS-NIC-163747-X6Q5X-v0.4
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-163747-X6Q5X-v0.4
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: 21

Data approved

Children and Young People Health
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Data Set
Experience, Quality and Outcomes-Local Provider Flows
Population Data-Local Provider Flows
Acute-Local Provider Flows
Maternity Services Data Set
Primary Care Services-Local Provider Flows
Community Services Data Set
Ambulance-Local Provider Flows
Community-Local Provider Flows
Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Data Set
Public Health and Screening Services-Local Provider Flows
Demand for Service-Local Provider Flows
Mental Health Minimum Data Set
SUS for Commissioners
Diagnostic Imaging Dataset
Mental Health Services Data Set
Diagnostic Services-Local Provider Flows
Mental Health-Local Provider Flows
Emergency Care-Local Provider Flows
Other Not Elsewhere Classified (NEC)-Local Provider Flows

Objective, as published

Commissioning To use pseudonymised data to provide intelligence to support the commissioning of health services. The data (containing both clinical and financial information) is analysed so that health care provision can be planned to support the needs of the population within the CCG area. The CCGs commission services from a range of providers covering a wide array of services. Each of the data flow categories requested supports the commissioned activity of one or more providers. The CCGs are part of the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire Sustainable Transformation Partnership. The STP is responsible for implementing large parts of the 5 year forward view from NHS England. The STP is implementing several initiatives: - Putting the patient at the heart of the health system - Working across organisational boundaries to deliver care and including social care, public Health, providers and GPs as well as CCGs - Reviewing patient pathways to improve patient experience whilst reducing costs e.g. reduce the number of standard tests a patient may have and only have the ones they need - Planning the demand and capacity across the healthcare system across 7 CCGs to ensure we have the right buildings, services and staff to cope with demand whilst reducing the impact on costs - Working to prevent or capture conditions early as they are cheaper to treat - Introduce initiatives to change behaviours e.g. move more care into the community - Patient pathway planning for the above To…

Expected benefits, as published

Commissioning 1. Supporting Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) to review demand management, integrated care and pathways. a. Analysis to support full business cases. b. Develop business models. c. Monitor In year projects. 2. Supporting Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) for specific disease types. 3. Health economic modelling using: a. Analysis on provider performance against 18 weeks wait targets. b. Learning from and predicting likely patient pathways for certain conditions, in order to influence early interventions and other treatments for patients. c. Analysis of outcome measures for differential treatments, accounting for the full patient pathway. d. Analysis to understand emergency care and linking A&E and Emergency Urgent Care Flows (EUCC). 4. Commissioning…

Source: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/2019/https://digital.nhs.uk/binaries/content/assets/website-assets/services/dars/release-registers/releaseregister20190301_20190331.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.