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NHS East Surrey CCG: Risk Stratification Risk stratification is a tool for identifying and predicting which patients are at high risk or are likely to be at high risk and prioritising the management of

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

Organisation
NHS East Surrey CCG
Source reference
DARS-NIC-43439-N1L6G-v1.5
Jurisdiction
England
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Risk Stratification Risk stratification is a tool for identifying and predicting which patients are at high risk or are likely to be at high risk and prioritising the management of their care in order to prevent worse outcomes. To conduct risk stratification Secondary User Services (SUS+) data, identifiable at the level of NHS number is linked with Primary Care data (from GPs) and an algorithm is applied to produce risk scores. Risk Stratification provides focus for future demands by enabling commissioners to prepare plans for patients. Commissioners can then prepare plans for patients who may

Register reference
DARS-NIC-43439-N1L6G-v1.5
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
21

Data approved

  • Children and Young People Health
  • Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Data Set
  • Experience, Quality and Outcomes-Local Provider Flows
  • Population Data-Local Provider Flows
  • Acute-Local Provider Flows
  • Maternity Services Data Set
  • Primary Care Services-Local Provider Flows
  • Ambulance-Local Provider Flows
  • Community-Local Provider Flows
  • Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Data Set
  • Public Health and Screening Services-Local Provider Flows
  • Demand for Service-Local Provider Flows
  • Mental Health Minimum Data Set
  • SUS for Commissioners
  • Diagnostic Imaging Dataset
  • Mental Health Services Data Set
  • Diagnostic Services-Local Provider Flows
  • Mental Health-Local Provider Flows
  • Emergency Care-Local Provider Flows
  • Other Not Elsewhere Classified (NEC)-Local Provider Flows

Objective, as published

Risk Stratification Risk stratification is a tool for identifying and predicting which patients are at high risk or are likely to be at high risk and prioritising the management of their care in order to prevent worse outcomes. To conduct risk stratification Secondary User Services (SUS+) data, identifiable at the level of NHS number is linked with Primary Care data (from GPs) and an algorithm is applied to produce risk scores. Risk Stratification provides focus for future demands by enabling commissioners to prepare plans for patients. Commissioners can then prepare plans for patients who may require high levels of care. Risk Stratification also enables General Practitioners (GPs) to better target intervention in Primary Care. The legal basis for this to occur is under Section 251 of NHS Act 2006 (CAG 7-04(a)). Risk Stratification will be conducted by North East London CSU Commissioning To use pseudonymised data to provide intelligence to support the commissioning of health services. The data (containing both clinical and financial information) is analysed so that health care provision can be planned to support the needs of the population within the CCG area. The CCGs commission services from a range of providers covering a wide array of services. Each of the data flow categories requested supports the commissioned activity of one or more providers. The following pseudonymised datasets are required to provide intelligence to support commissioning of health services: - Secon…

Expected benefits, as published

Risk Stratification 1. As part of the risk stratification processing activity detailed above, GPs have access to the risk stratification tool which highlights patients for whom the GP is responsible and have been classed as at risk. The only identifier available to GPs is the NHS numbers of their own patients. Any further identification of the patients will be completed by the GP on their own systems. 2. Output from the risk stratification tool will provide aggregate reporting of number and percentage of population found to be at risk. 3. Record level output will be available for commissioners (of the CCG), pseudonymised at patient level. 4. GP Practices will be able to view the risk scores for individual patients with the ability to display the underlying SUS+ data for the individual pat…

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.