UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SOUTH MANCHESTER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST: NHS England has established a Clinical Reference Group (CRG) for burn care services.

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

Organisation: UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SOUTH MANCHESTER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Source reference: DARS-NIC-384524-C7M2Q-v1.2
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-384524-C7M2Q-v1.2
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: 10

Data approved

Hospital Episode Statistics Critical Care
Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care

Objective, as published

NHS England has established a Clinical Reference Group (CRG) for burn care services. The CRG includes representatives for areas across England – specifically: North East, Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Mersey, Yorkshire and The Humber, West Midlands, East Midlands, East of England, London NW, London NE, London S, South West, Wessex, Thames Valley and the South East Coast. Specialist burn care services include all burn care delivered by Burn Centres, Burn Units and Burn Facilities delivered as part of a provider network. As a member of the CRG, University Hospital of South Manchester (UHSM) has been commissioned by NHS England to ensure that burn service capacity is adequate for demand across the NHS and specialised services are placed as required in different parts of the country. UHSM is responsible for maintaining the National Burn Registry (NBR) database which is a clinical database containing patient identifiable data on all hospital admissions due to (or including) burns and of the patient treatment and care for each episode. Care providers across England and Wales have an obligation to provide data on burn injuries and the course of treatment given. UHSM use HES data to ensure that the data received from the burn care centres is accurate within agreed thresholds and falls within the scope of data that is required. The scope of the service includes all acute care, rehabilitation and reconstruction. For this reason, UHSM requires HES data that includes plastic surgery…

Expected benefits, as published

The National Burn Registry is used to determine and report the following; • The extent of specialised burn services compliance with their Service Specification. This is delivered annually and due in April. • Quantification of the demand and capacity trends for burn care 2003-2015 to inform the commissioning of service in line with the burn care CRG Strategy 2015-19. This is delivered annually and due in September. These are beneficial to healthcare as CRG use them to make informed recommendations to NHS England in order to ensure that resources are used effectively throughout England and Wales. The intention is to design a sustainable series of burn services throughout the NHS to support safe and appropriate care for this unpredictable emergency workload by use statistical process control…

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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