NHS South Kent Coast CCG: The CCG has a statutory responsibility to monitor, evaluate and review the delivery and quality of commissioned services as per Health and Social Care Act 2012 for commissioning pu

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

Organisation: NHS South Kent Coast CCG
Source reference: DARS-NIC-72957-B6S3P-v1.3
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-72957-B6S3P-v1.3
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: 5

Data approved

Children and Young People Health
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Data Set
Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Data Set
Mental Health Minimum Data Set
Mental Health Services Data Set

Objective, as published

The CCG has a statutory responsibility to monitor, evaluate and review the delivery and quality of commissioned services as per Health and Social Care Act 2012 for commissioning purposes, The CCGs uses the IAPT, CYPHS and Mental Health data sets to evaluate access and compliance with NHS constitution targets. The data is used to review longitudinal access data to ensure sufficient capacity and activity is commissioned. No patient identifiable data is requested. Commissioning (Pseudonymised) – Mental Health and IAPT To use pseudonymised data for the following datasets to provide intelligence to support commissioning of health services : - Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS) - Mental Health Learning Disability Data Set (MHLDDS) - Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS) - Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) - Children and Young People Services (CYPHS) The pseudonymised data is required to ensure that analysis of health care provision can be completed to support the needs of the health profile of the population within the CCG area based on the full analysis of multiple pseudonymised datasets. The CCG will only have access to records of its own CCG. The Data processor will have access to the records of the CCGs for which it is carrying out data processing. Access is limited to those substantive employees of the data controller as well as data processor with authorised user accounts used for identification and authorisation.No record level data will be linked other…

Expected benefits, as published

Commissioning (Pseudonymised) – Mental Health, IAPT and CYPHS 1. Supporting Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) to review demand management, Integrated care and pathways. a. Analysis to support full business cases. b. Develop business models. c. Monitor In year projects. 2. Supporting Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) for specific disease types. 3. Health economic modelling using: a. Analysis on provider performance against targets. b. Learning from and predicting likely patient pathways for certain conditions, in order to influence early interventions and other treatments for patients. c. Analysis of outcome measures for differential treatments, accounting for the full patient pathway. 4. Commissioning cycle support for grouping and re-costing previous activity. 5…

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.