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.
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).
Collection
Ongoing.
Last edited: 24 May 2023 10:47 am