BRADFORD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST: Bradford Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (BTHFT) require access to the HES datasets through the HDIS for the purpose of identifying the data required to support a larger pro

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

Organisation: BRADFORD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Source reference: DARS-NIC-49238-R7G6V-v0.20
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-49238-R7G6V-v0.20
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: 6

Data approved

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

Objective, as published

Bradford Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (BTHFT) require access to the HES datasets through the HDIS for the purpose of identifying the data required to support a larger programme of work in relation to improving patients health and social care in Bradford. On a point of vocabulary, this and the following sections (Objectives for Processing, Processing Activities, Specific Outputs, Expected Benefits) of the agreement/application make frequent use of the work "identify". For clarity, there will be no linkage with other record-level data, nor will there be any attempt to re-identify an individual through the use of the data. Where the word "identify" is used, it should be considered to mean "establish" or "determine". Connected Yorkshire Connected Health City (www.connectedhealthcities.org/connected-health-cities/yorkshire-humber/) (CYCHC) is a region-wide digital community programme covering over five million people that will provide a shared platform for developing innovative approaches to improving health and wellbeing. The work of BTHFT helps support the CYCHC programme, but is limited in scope to Bradford, and no other organisation will have access to any data other than where it is aggregated with small numbers supressed in line with the HES Analysis Guide. Although linked to the CHC programme this data request is to provide access to HES data to support specifically four Bradford projects being undertaken for the Connected Yorkshire CHC programme by BTHFT: - i. P…

Expected benefits, as published

The primary benefit to working with HDIS is to establish the requirements for a HES extract, so as to minimise the amount of data being processed by BTHFT. The majority of the benefit to health will come from working with the HES extract itself. BTHFT expect that by the end of December 2017, they will have identified the following service improvements to pathways of care using routine electronic data as a result of the analysis for the Bradford population: i. child health - childhood obesity related episodes ii. child health – childhood asthma episodes iii. elderly frailty population related episodes iv. Improving the pathway for the diagnosis of autism in children 1) Identifying health needs of the elderly population 2) Identifying health needs of the childhood population that are obese…

Source: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/2019/https://digital.nhs.uk/binaries/content/assets/website-assets/service/dars/release-registers/releaseregister20180301_20180524.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.