NHS South Devon and Torbay CCG: This is an application for HES APC, OP and A&E data from NHS South Devon & Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and NHS Northern, Eastern & Western Devon CCG (acting as joint

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

Organisation: NHS South Devon and Torbay CCG
Source reference: DARS-NIC-181880-M8W1T-v0.8
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-181880-M8W1T-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 Accident and Emergency
Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care
Hospital Episode Statistics Outpatients

Objective, as published

This is an application for HES APC, OP and A&E data from NHS South Devon & Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and NHS Northern, Eastern & Western Devon CCG (acting as joint data controllers who will also process data). This request is to support both of the CCGs in performing some of their statutory functions, specifically: 1. To commission healthcare to the extent the CCG considers necessary to meet the reasonable requirements of the patients they are responsible for 2. Act with a view to securing continuous improvements in the quality of services for patients and in outcomes, with particular regard to clinical effectiveness, safety and patient experience 3. To carry out functions effectively, efficiently and economically 4. Have regard to the need to reduce inequalities between patients with respect to their ability to access health services and the outcomes achieved for them 5. To ensure expenditure in a financial year does not exceed the allocated budget 6. Informing commissioning plan, in particular planning to reduce inequalities in access to services and outcomes achieved and planning to fulfil financial duties. 7. To identify and reduce areas of unwarranted variation in healthcare spend and activity. However, this agreement is different to a standard CCG data sharing agreement as its focus is on using national data so that the CCGs can benchmark themselves against national or other regional levels, further details of which are provided later in this agreement.…

Expected benefits, as published

By being able to benchmark against national and peer level data the CCGs can provide high quality scientific evidence to identify target areas where there are opportunities for improvement and look at the appropriateness of the setting in which care is being delivered, to improve the experience for the patient. The CCGs can understand where they are already over performing in relation to peers and share strategies/care pathways and experience. This data will also help the CCGs to develop more robust plans to commission services appropriately and to ensure inequalities in healthcare are minimised as much as possible. Benchmarking against other areas will help to reduce unwarranted variation in the healthcare system meaning precious healthcare resource can be put to best use, to help reduce…

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.