Patient Level Information and Costing Systems (PLICS) Early Implementers Collection for Community Health Services and for Acute Services for trusts not mandated for PLICS for FY 2020/21 data

The information gathered from this collection will be used to enable NHS England and NHS Improvement's Costing Transformation Programme to more effectively perform its pricing and licensing functions under the Health and Social Care Act 2012. It will:

• inform new methods of pricing NHS services
• inform new approaches and other changes to the design of the currencies used to price NHS services
• contribute to the NHS England and NHS Improvement strategic objective of a single national cost collection
• inform the relationship between provider characteristics and cost
• help trusts to maximise use of their resources and improve efficiencies, as required by the provider licence
• identify the relationship between patient characteristics and cost
• identify the relationship between incident characteristics and cost
• support an approach to benchmarking for regulatory purposes.

This Notice is served on:

• those trusts providing community and acute services who have agreed to participate as set out in Annex A Section 2 of this Notice.

This is a one-off pilot collection of data. The data collection is scheduled to take place from 9am on 20 December 2021 to 5pm on 28 January 2022 inclusive.  Data can only be submitted within this time-period.