NHS Southport and Formby 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 Southport and Formby CCG
Source reference: DARS-NIC-197584-N4S9C-v0.2
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-197584-N4S9C-v0.2
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: 22

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
Community 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 CCG area. The CCG commissions services from a range of providers covering a wide array of services. The CCG is part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. This body is responsible for implementing large parts of the 5 year forward view from NHS England. The HCP is implementing several initiatives: 1. Putting the patient at the heart of the health system 2. Working across organisational boundaries to deliver care and including social care, public Health, providers and GPs as well as CCGs 3. 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 4. Planning the demand and capacity across the healthcare system across 6 CCGs to ensure we have the right buildings, services and staff to cope with demand whilst reducing the impact on costs 5. Working to prevent or capture conditions early as they are cheaper to treat 6. Introduce initiatives to change behaviours e.g. move more care into the community 7. Patient pathway planning for the above To ensure the patient is at the heart of care, the HCP is focussing on where services are required across the geographical region.…

Expected benefits, as published

Commissioning Sharing this data is crucial to producing a service change proposal for Southport and Ormskirk Acute Services Sustainability. The service change proposal will set out the options and next steps for how each organisation will agree and implement a clinically sustainable, operationally practical and financially affordable solution for their hospitals: • Impacts will be identified over a five year forecast period • Finance impacts will cover both Southport & Ormskirk and the wider Cheshire & Merseyside footprint • Capacity requirements will include beds, theatres and staffing (by site for S&O) • Knock on impacts will include activity, capacity and finance for other C&M providers, and activity only for out of area providers

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.