THE NUFFIELD TRUST: The Nuffield Trust is an independent research group overseen by a board of Trustees including a number of senior NHS clinicians, managers and academics.

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

Organisation: THE NUFFIELD TRUST
Source reference: DARS-NIC-384572-J7P6Y-v6.5
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-384572-J7P6Y-v6.5
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: 28

Data approved

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

Objective, as published

The Nuffield Trust is an independent research group overseen by a board of Trustees including a number of senior NHS clinicians, managers and academics. The Nuffield Trust undertakes work for the public good and within a research governance framework. The purposes for receiving HES data falls into the following categories :- 1. Evaluations of the impact of innovations in health and social care on hospital utilisation In an effort to improve the quality of health care and reduce the financial pressure on the NHS, efforts are being made to deliver more care in community settings, with the aim of preventing unnecessary and expensive admissions to hospital. The Nuffield Trust is developing methods to evaluate how well these interventions perform. The projects are: • Evaluation of the Integrated Care ‘Pioneers’. These are models of care aimed at reducing the impact of boundaries between care providers. This work is in partnership with the DH Policy Innovation Research Unit based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. • Evaluation of new models of primary care. This is an evaluation of selected ‘scaled up’ GP practices, to explore development of new general practice organisations. • Evaluation of a local scheme to deliver improved care for complex cases – as part of the PM’s Challenge Fund in Barking, Havering and Redbridge (funded by PM’s Challenge Fund). Additional projects may be added to this list but will be subject to an amendment to this agreement being appr…

Expected benefits, as published

Over the past five years The Nuffield Trust’s research studies, using NHS data, have been widely used to inform decision making and debate in health care. The Nuffield Trust publishes their reports on the Nuffield website and in peer reviewed journals where appropriate. The Nuffield Trust list below recent reports of studies where they have made use of HES data; There are many examples of The Nuffield Trust’s work being cited in parliamentary debates and select committees as well as used by national bodies including the Department of Health and NHS England, CQC and Monitor. Many of the projects have been funded by the Department of Health and NHS, and The Nuffield Trust work in partnership with NHS and other care organisations and with universities. The Nuffield Trust has also provided ex…

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.