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Patient Level Information and Costing Systems (PLICS) Integrated Collection FY 2022 - 2023 Data Provision Notice

Data Provision Notice for the Patient Level Information and Costing Systems (PLICS) integrated data collection required to be submitted by specified providers of acute, mental health and IAPT services for the 2022-23 financial year.

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Overview

The information gathered from this collection will be used to enable NHS England'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 NHS England's 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
  • support an approach to benchmarking for regulatory purposes
  • allow NHS England to report the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the cost base in the English NHS

Scope

This Notice is served on:

  • all trusts identified in Annex A Section 2 of the published Requirements Specification for Patient Level Information and Costing Systems (PLICS) Mandatory Collections continued implementation and associated Mandatory Request. These documents are published on the NHS England website. The organisation specified in the above scope are requested to comply with the form.

Legal basis

In accordance with the Health and Care Act 2022 and the Health and Care Act 2022 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional and Saving Provision) Regulations 2022, as of 1 July 2022 Monitor (NHS Improvement) is abolished, and all mandatory requests from Monitor (NHS Improvement) are to be treated as a direction by NHS England to NHS Digital under section 254 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

The statutory functions of NHS Digital transferred to NHS England under the Health and Social Care Information Centre (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023 (Transfer Regulations) with effect from 1 February 2023 (Transfer Date). Under the Transfer Regulations, all directions by either the Secretary of State or NHS England to NHS Digital are now regarded as if they were directions made by the Secretary of State to NHS England.

Consequently, the legal basis for this collection is still the Mandatory Request (now Direction), with its status now deemed to be a Direction from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to NHS England under section 254 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

 

Period

The data will be collected annually. Details of the submission timetable are published. 

This is a single annual collection exercise from each trust at Annex A Section 2 of the Requirements Specification for Patient Level Information and Costing Systems (PLICS) Mandatory Collections continued implementation.

Read the Data Provision Notice and supporting Requirements Specification

Updates

27 September 2023: Version 2 of this Notice issued both to support the 2023 data collection and to reflect the legal and organisational changes which came into effect on 1 July 2022 and 1 February 2023.

14 July 2022: Update of Notice with new link to Integrated Schema (page 6) with no other changes.

Last edited: 2 October 2023 12:02 pm