OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST: Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust hosts the Oxford Academic Health Science Network (AHSN).

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

Organisation: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
Source reference: DARS-NIC-47368-F1C2M-v0.10
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-47368-F1C2M-v0.10
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: 33

Data approved

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

Objective, as published

Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust hosts the Oxford Academic Health Science Network (AHSN). The Oxford AHSN was licensed for 5 years by NHS England in 2013. It covers a population of 3.3 million living in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire and Bedfordshire. The Oxford AHSN is focused on collaboration to reduce unwarranted variation across the geographical region. The wider AHSN network includes a number of partner organisations which includes all NHS Acute and Community and Mental Health Trusts, CCGs and Universities across the region. The AHSN exists to achieve the following four objectives (each of which is underpinned by a supporting Programme): o Focus on the needs of patients and local populations – support and work in partnership with commissioners and public health bodies to identify and address unmet health and social care needs, whilst promoting health equality and best practice (Best Care Programme). o Speed up adoption of innovation into practice to improve clinical outcomes and patient experience – support the identification and more rapid uptake and spread of research evidence and innovation at pace and scale to improve patient care and local population health (Clinical Innovation Adoption Programme). o Build a culture of partnership and collaboration – promote inclusivity, partnership and collaboration to consider and address local, regional and national priorities (Patient Safety Collaborative). o Create wealth through c…

Expected benefits, as published

The objectives of the Programmes are is work is to directly benefit health care through identifying best and inferior practice; standardising best practice to optimise care; improve the patient experience and patient outcomes and potentially delivering cost savings. Raising the standards at the hospitals with lower levels of performance or less effective practises will be of direct benefit to local residents and users. Any improvements identified within the Oxford AHSN region would be shared with other AHSNs across the country. There are national forums of AHSNs used for this type of success sharing. The intention is to request further HES extracts in the future to be used to help monitor the effectiveness of improvements and the success in reducing variation in order to maintain standard…

Source: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/2019/http://content.digital.nhs.uk/media/24614/Release-Register-March---May-2017/xls/Release_Register__March_-_May_20171.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.