THE NUFFIELD TRUST: The Nuffield Trust’s overarching purpose is to help provide objective research and analysis that boosts the quality of health policy and practice, and ultimately improves the healt

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

Organisation: THE NUFFIELD TRUST
Source reference: DARS-NIC-18674-W8Q8K-v0.5
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-18674-W8Q8K-v0.5
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: 1

Data approved

Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care

Objective, as published

The Nuffield Trust’s overarching purpose is to help provide objective research and analysis that boosts the quality of health policy and practice, and ultimately improves the health and health care of people in the UK. Nuffield Trust is an independent research group overseen by a board of Trustees including a number of senior NHS clinicians, managers and academics. This application relates to a piece of evaluation work the Nuffield Trust is undertaking funded by Age UK, to evaluate Age UK’s Integrated Care Programme. The role of the Nuffield Trust will be to provide an independent evaluation of Age UK’s Integrated Care Programme (ICP) across several areas in England (Portsmouth, N Tyneside, Blackburn, E Lancashire, Guildford, Sheffield, Kent). In order to do this we propose using linked data to compare the outcomes for project beneficiaries versus a matched control group who do not receive the schemes’ services. The primary outcome measures will be hospital activity in the period after referral to the schemes. The Age UK programme commenced in Summer 2015, and will run until Autumn 2017. The key output of our work will be an independent assessment of the strength of evidence that Age UK ICP has any favourable impact on older people’s use of hospital services. The Nuffield Trust will not be sharing any data with any third party. All published or otherwise shared information will be at highly aggregated levels with small number suppressed as required in HES guidance.

Expected benefits, as published

The Nuffield Trust evaluation will provide an independent assessment of the impact of Age UK’s Integrated Care Scheme. This scheme aims to use volunteers and voluntary sector staff to help support older people’s formal and informal care choices. It is one of a number of similar schemes increasingly being commissioned by local authorities, CCGs and acute trusts in England. The evidence the Nuffield Trust provide will be of benefit to these commissioners, both in England and beyond, as they consider funding these types of services over others on a longer-term basis. A local pilot study in Cornwall reported large falls in emergency admissions after referral to the Age UK ICP. The Nuffield Trust want to test the interpretation of this study and believe that this analysis (with larger numbers…

Source: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/2019/http://content.digital.nhs.uk/media/24614/Release-Register-March---May-2017/xls/Release_Register__March_-_May_20171.xlsx. Captured 2026-10-30.

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