Maternity Outcomes Signal System (MOSS) Data Provision Notice

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (the Act) gives NHS England statutory powers, under section 259(1)(a), to require data from health or social care bodies, or organisations that provide publicly funded health or adult social care in England, where it has been directed to establish an information system by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

The data, as specified by NHS England in this published Data Provision Notice, is required to support a direction from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to NHS England. Therefore, organisations that are in scope of the notice are legally required, under section 259(5) of the Act, to provide the data in the form and manner specified below

Under section 259(1)(a) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, this Notice is served in accordance with the procedure published as part of the NHS England duty under section 259(8) on the following persons:

• NHS trusts and foundation trusts who have maternity and/or neonatal units.

Under section 259(5) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 the organisation types specified above must comply with the form, manner and period requirements below.

This will be an ongoing collection. Data is collected via SPEN and can be submitted by NHS trusts throughout the 24 hour daily period, 365 days a year. The specified data fields will be extracted for analysis and updating of the MOSS visualisation tool by NHSE on a daily basis.