NHS Salford 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 Salford CCG
Source reference: DARS-NIC-193381-L9V3D-v0.1
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-193381-L9V3D-v0.1
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
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 North West region, detailed within the data minimisation. The following pseudonymised datasets are required to provide intelligence to support commissioning of health services: - Secondary Uses Service (SUS+) - Local Provider Flows o Acute The pseudonymised data is required to for the following purposes:  Population health management: • Understanding the interdependency of care services • Targeting care more effectively • Using value as the redesign principle • Ensuring we do what we should  Data Quality and Validation – allowing data quality checks on the submitted data  Thoroughly investigating the needs of the population, to ensure the right services are available for individuals when and where they need them  Understanding cohorts of residents who are at risk of becoming users of some of the more expensive services, to better understand and manage those needs  Monitoring population health and care interactions to understand where people may slip through the net, or where the provision of care may be being duplicated  Modelling activity across all data sets to understand how services interact with each other, and to understand how changes in one service may affect flows through another  S…

Expected benefits, as published

The following measurable benefits are expected through each team AQuA The AQ Programme is a Quality Improvement and Audit programme that identifies a set of robust, evidence based clinical quality measures for given focus areas. The measures represent a standard clinical practice that providers agree patients in the relevant cohort should receive. AQ are currently working with 8 clinical focus areas and each focus area has between 5 and 10 clinical measures. Each measure would have a beneficial outcome. An evaluation of the early AQ programme evidenced that the pneumonia measures reduced mortality within the Northwest region (N Engl J Med 2012; 367:1821-8). Not all measures have such dramatic outcomes; some measures may improve diagnostic speed or improve patient education. All the measur…

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.