Ambulance Data Set Pilot

NHS Digital has been directed by NHS England to establish and operate a system to enable the collection and analysis of operational and clinical data from all ambulance services in England. 

This Notice is in respect of data from Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems, the collection of which will first be undertaken on a pilot basis.

The pilot will assess whether the data items can be used to enable ambulance services to identify variation and best practice to advance both clinical and operational delivery at a local and national level and improve patient care through secondary use analysis (i.e. not for the direct care of the patient).

The EPR data will be used by NHS England along with 111/999 operations data from Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) systems. This CAD collection has successfully moved out of pilot and is now established as a live collection, with its own Data Provision Notice.

This Notice is for:

• NHS ambulance services.

The initial pilot participant is Yorkshire Ambulance Service. Other ambulance services will be listed here as they join the pilot.

The EPR pilot starts in October 2022. The exact timings will be agreed with each pilot participant.

7 October 2022: A revised Notice (version 1.7) has been issued to confirm the start of the EPR pilot in October 2022 and the move of the CAD pilot to the live environment.

6 December 2021: A revised Notice (version 1.6) has been issued to allow for the extension of the CAD pilot until the end of January 2022.

12 August 2021: A revised Notice (version 1.5) has been issued to allow for the extension of the CAD pilot until the end of August 2021.

9 June 2021: A revised Notice (version 1.4) has been issued to allow for the extension of the CAD pilot until the end of July 2021.

26 March 2021: A revised Notice (version 1.3) has been issued to allow for the extension of the CAD pilot until the end of May 2021, and to note that the EPR pilot will start in October 2021.

5 February 2021:  A revised Notice (version 1.2) has been issued to allow for the extension of the CAD pilot until the end of April 2021.

21 December 2020: A revised Notice (version 1.1) has been issued to allow for the extension of the CAD pilot by one month until February 2021.

Previous versions are available on request from NHS Digital's Data Standards Assurance Service.