Local Authority Public Health Pseudonymised HES Extract Service

Data-sharing agreement from NHS England Data Uses Register. Evidence status: source reported.

Organisation: NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE COUNCIL
Published: 2026-09-11
Source reference: DARS-NIC-389715-Y4S3N-v8.2
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-389715-Y4S3N-v8.2
Applicant type: Local Authority
Data controllers: NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE COUNCIL
Agreement period: 2026-09-11 to 2029-11-14
For commercial purposes (as marked in the register): No
Release files listed by NHS England: 8

Data approved

Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS)
HES-ID to MPS-ID HES Accident and Emergency
HES-ID to MPS-ID HES Admitted Patient Care
HES-ID to MPS-ID HES Outpatients
Hospital Episode Statistics Accident and Emergency (HES A and E)
Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care (HES APC)
Hospital Episode Statistics Critical Care (HES Critical Care)
Hospital Episode Statistics Outpatients (HES OP)

Objective, as published

The data provided by the Pseudonymised HES Extract Service will be used by the Local Authority in fulfilment of its public health function, specifically to support and improve: 1. the local responsiveness, targeting and value for money of commissioned public health services; 2. the statutory ‘core offer’ public health advice and support provided to local NHS commissioners; 3. the local specificity and relevance of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and Health and Wellbeing Strategies produced in collaboration with NHS and voluntary sector partners on the Health and Wellbeing Board; 4. the local focus, responsiveness and timeliness of health impact assessments; and, among other benefits 5. the capability of the local public health intelligence service to undertake comparative longitudinal analyses of patterns of and variations in: a) the incidence and prevalence of disease and risks to public health; b) demand for and access to treatment and preventative care services; c) variations in health outcomes between groups in the population; d) the level of integration between local health and care services; and e) the local associations between causal risk factors and health status and outcomes. The main statutory duties and wider public health responsibilities supporting these processing objectives are as follows: 1. Statutory public health duties that the data will be used to support a) Duty to improve public health: Analyses of the data will be used to support the duty of the…

Expected benefits, as published

Access to the data will enable the Local Authority to undertake locally-focused and locally-responsive analyses of health status and health outcomes. For example, the data will be used to produce analyses of health inequalities for non-standard geographies and for specific social or ethnic groups in the local population to help ensure that the health challenges facing the local population – particularly the most disadvantaged – have been identified and responded to appropriately by the Local Authority and its partners. It is recognised that in fulfilling its public health duties using HES/ECDS data, the Local Authority will deliver significant benefits.

Benefits reported by the applicant

Year on year HES provides the public health analysts with a consistent, up-to-date source of reliable and comprehensive healthcare data including detail on gender, age, condition, duration and geographical location that allows ‘drill down’ to ward, GP practice, primary care network, deprivation deciles and other local populations. This provides better intelligence for targeting services and interventions and is the only viable alternative to the current restrictions on accessing detailed primary care data. Use of population health management techniques to help better understand health and care need at a more granular level means the move beyond public datasets to specialist data such as HES is becoming more critical. In order to apply the PHM principles of segmentation and risk stratifica…

This is the applicant's own account; OpenHDI has not verified it.

Source: https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-uses-register. Captured 2026-11-05.

Limitations: Data-sharing agreement as published in NHS England's Data Uses Register. An agreement permits access; actual data releases are listed separately. Expected and yielded benefits are as reported by the applicant and have not been independently verified. Long text fields can be cut off in NHS England's spreadsheet export at Excel's 32,767-character cell limit.