Imperial College London: To use hospital administrative data to provide measures of quality of delivery of healthcare by providers, or in some instances, by area and to show variations in quality by provid

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

Organisation: Imperial College London
Source reference: DARS-NIC-345991-H2F5N-v0.0
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

To use hospital administrative data to provide measures of quality of delivery of healthcare by providers, or in some instances, by area and to show variations in quality by provider and to support management information function for the NHS

Register reference: DARS-NIC-345991-H2F5N-v0.0
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: 5

Data approved

Hospital Episode Statistics Accident and Emergency
Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care
Hospital Episode Statistics Critical Care
Hospital Episode Statistics Outpatients

Objective, as published

Expected benefits, as published

1) Ongoing benefits from our previous work The Imperial unit’s methodological research forms the basis of a near Real-Time Monitoring System called Quality Investigator (QI) produced by Dr Foster Intelligence, currently used by 70% of English NHS acute trusts to assist them in monitoring a variety of casemix adjusted outcomes at the level of diagnosis group and procedure group [1]. Dr Foster Intelligence is an independent healthcare information company to develop indicators and methodologies to assist in the analysis of healthcare. It provides a research grant to the unit to develop indicators and methodologies to assist in the analysis of healthcare performance. The unit works with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), contributing to its surveillance remit using the same methods and data.…

Source: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/2019/http://content.digital.nhs.uk/media/22305/Data-Release-Register-April-to-August-2016/xls/Data_Release_Register__April_-_August_2016.xlsx. Captured 2026-10-30.

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