Patient Level Information and Costing Systems (PLICS) Mandatory Collections continued implementation Mandatory Request Information System

To enable NHS Improvement to perform its pricing and licensing functions under the 2012 Act more effectively. 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 Improvement’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
• identify the relationship between incident characteristics and cost; • support an approach to benchmarking for regulatory purposes
• allow NHS Improvement to report the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the cost base in the English NHS

Sections 255(1) , 255(4)(b), 255(9) 256(1), 256(2)(a) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

The NHS Improvement’s Mandatory Request to NHS Digital – Patient Level Costing Information Systems (PLICS) continued implementation (Acute) issued on 23 May 2018 is revoked.