ERNST AND YOUNG LLP: Ernst and Young LLP (EY) work with a number of providers and funders of NHS care across the NHS spread across England, Wales and Scotland along with national bodies as listed https

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

Organisation: ERNST AND YOUNG LLP
Source reference: DARS-NIC-369596-F6Q9V-v0.0
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-369596-F6Q9V-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: 164

Data approved

Bespoke Monthly Extract : SUS PbR A&E
Bespoke Monthly Extract : SUS PbR APC Episodes
Bespoke Monthly Extract : SUS PbR APC Spells
Bespoke Monthly Extract : SUS PbR OP

Objective, as published

Ernst and Young LLP (EY) work with a number of providers and funders of NHS care across the NHS spread across England, Wales and Scotland along with national bodies as listed https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/arms-length-bodies/our-arms-length-bodies. In addition, EY works with international healthcare organisations (this does not include device or pharmaceutical companies or health insurers). The work carried out for both types of clients is aimed at optimising performance, and having access to detailed information (e.g. benchmarking relating to NHS Trusts) is key to this. EY use the data to calculate relevant local and national Key Performance Indicators to share with clients and to bring about change within their clients. EY’s request for these SUS PbR data sets is so that EY can quickly, and with insight, be responsive to tenders from the whole health and social care community and economy. More information can be found at http://www.ey.com/UK/en/Industries/Government---Public-Sector/Healthcare Around 50% of tenders the EY health team responded to last year for the UK&I business were contracted under the Consultancy ONE framework. This is a framework which has been appointed to EY by the Cabinet Office to be able to tender for services until 16/05/2016 under the lots indicated in the attached document “ConsultancyONE” (SD1, SD2). Of the remainder, some are contracted under smaller frameworks such as gCloud, or via locally tendered/uncontested work outside a frame…

Expected benefits, as published

As above, the lifecycle of EY engagements are such that at any one time EY are in scoping, design, delivery and sustainability phases across a number of projects in the country. The nature of EY’s work is to help providers and commissioners identify areas of poor performance or poor efficiency and work with them to improve. Some of EY’s projects are subject to tight confidentiality agreements and the scope/client is not known to that outside of the immediate engagement team and therefore EY cannot disclose this to others. These activities are essential to the future of the NHS – without efficiency use of NHS resources patient care will suffer and waiting lists grow. It is important that EY are able to provide EY’s clients with relevant data around the performance of other NHS trusts so th…

Source: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/2019/http://content.digital.nhs.uk/media/23861/Release-Register-December-16---February-17/xls/Release_Register__December_16_-_February_17.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.