NHS SOUTH, CENTRAL AND WEST COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT: NHS South Central and West Clinical Support Unit (CSU) require Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data in order to support commissioning for NHS England, Clinical Commissioning Grou

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

Organisation: NHS SOUTH, CENTRAL AND WEST COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT
Source reference: DARS-NIC-99675-X5S7X-v2.4
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-99675-X5S7X-v2.4
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: 15

Data approved

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

Objective, as published

NHS South Central and West Clinical Support Unit (CSU) require Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data in order to support commissioning for NHS England, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) and other customers (see below). Recipients of reports containing HES analysis would include CCGs (local as well as those in other regions), NHS Trusts, Area Teams, and NHS England, Vanguards, Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships organisations (STPs), Local Authorities, Patient Safety Collaborates Accountable Care Organisations, Integrated Care Systems, NHS Improvement and Academic Science Networks. This is because support is currently needed across a large number of work programmes. All outputs and publications contain only aggregated data with small numbers suppressed in line with the HES Analysis Guide. The work areas, for which support is requested from the NHS South Central and West Clinical Support Unit by the organisations listed above, are largely nationally recognised, and include the Better Care Fund, Quality Premium, Vanguard, Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships, Right Care, Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP), patient safety, service evaluation and transformation, planning required and general benchmarking analysis. The aims of the projects for which HES reports are required include improving patient pathways, finding savings, planning for the future, improving the efficiency of the local health economies and reducing pressure on hospita…

Expected benefits, as published

The availability of national data enables the organisations to benchmark themselves with similar organisations nationally and highlight any variations and potential for improvement. The findings can support decisions undertaken by those organisations (for example, on whether to invest in a new service) and lead to better use of resources. From a commissioning perspective, the ability to use HES data will ensure that an organisation’s commissioning needs are met, which, as set out in the NHS England Commissioning Intelligence Model, include 2.1 (how healthy?) reducing health inequalities and improving health outcomes now and in the future, 2.2 (what is really happening in this system?)identifying duplication and improving integration of care, 2.4 (how do we compare?) showing how they compa…

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.