Commissioning Data Sets

Data Provision Notice for Commissioning Data Sets (CDS), which support a range of payment, statistics and planning activities for the NHS.

Overview

The Commissioning Data Sets (CDS) provide national activity data for accident and emergency attendances, outpatient appointments (including did not attends) and admitted patient care (hospital admissions) in the NHS in England.

This includes all secondary care activity of this nature undertaken by NHS hospital providers, including patients receiving private treatment, and NHS patients treated electively in the independent sector (including any qualified provider) and overseas.

The submission of CDS into NHS Digital facilitates a range of payment, statistics and planning activities for the NHS.

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Scope

Organisations in scope are:

all secondary care providers providing NHS funded services under the standard national contract
any qualified providers (AQPs)
all NHS private patient units (PPUs).

Legal basis

See below for the two items which provide the current legal basis for the Commissioning Data Sets.

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Spine services (no 2) 2014 Direction

Directions given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate such systems for the collection and analysis of information as are necessary for it to deliver the Spine services, and to exercise such systems delivery functions of the Secretary of State as are necessary for it to deliver the Spine services.

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The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Commencement No.4, Transitional, Savings and Transitory Provisions) Order 2013

This Commencement Order provides for the continuation of any information system in existence before 1st April 2013 as if it were a system directed under section 254 of the 2012 Act.

Collection

Ongoing.

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Commissioning Data Sets Data Provision Notice

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