NHS ENGLAND: Transforming Care Programme - NHS England has set out a clear programme of work with other national partners, outlined in ‘Transforming Care – Next Steps’, to improve services for

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

Organisation: NHS England
Source reference: DARS-NIC-371011-F4X5F-v0.0
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-371011-F4X5F-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: 1

Data approved

Monthly Subscription Assuring Transformation

Objective, as published

Transforming Care Programme - NHS England has set out a clear programme of work with other national partners, outlined in ‘Transforming Care – Next Steps’, to improve services for people with learning disabilities and/or autism, and drive system-wide change. This will enable more people to live in the community, with the right support, ideally close to home. The programme is led jointly by NHS England, the Association of Adult Social Services (ADASS), the Care Quality Commission (CQC), Local Government Association (LGA), Health Education England (HEE) and the Department of Health (DH). A key objective of the Transforming Care programme is a reduction in the reliance on inpatient care – reducing the number of people being admitted to hospital and discharging current inpatients, with a net reduction in the number of people with LD and/or autism in hospital. The Assuring Transformation data is the principle data set used to monitor the number of inpatients. When compared to published Assuring Transformation (AT) data, published HES data shows significantly more admissions each month (an order of magnitude greater). By carrying out a comparative analysis of the two data sets we will be able to understand and explain why this difference occurs. If the analysis shows that some organisations are under-reporting in AT, NHS England and partners in the cross-system Transforming Care programme (Department of Health, Public Health England and the Care Quality Commission) will be able to…

Expected benefits, as published

Understanding the differences in the data sets is important for giving confidence in the AT data - whilst the discrepancy is unexplained there will be lingering uncertainty that AT is able to accurately report on inpatient care for people with learning disabilities, and be used for monitoring delivery of the Transforming Care programme. Where under-reporting is identified, NHS England will be able to work with commissioners to improve their reporting - this will in turn enable AT to be used effectively to identify poor practice (particularly around discharging patients) and hence will drive up quality of care.

Source: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/2019/http://content.digital.nhs.uk/media/23167/Data-Release-Register-September---November-2016/xls/Data_Release_Register__September_-_November_2016.xlsx. Captured 2026-10-30.

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