Patient Level Information and Costing Systems (PLICS) Early Implementers Collection for Further Services for FY2021/22 data Direction 2022

The purpose of these Directions (purpose) is to test the collection and analysis of PLICS information from the early implementers that have agreed to participate and to enable NHS England 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 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;
• identify the relationship between incident characteristics and cost; and
• support an approach to benchmarking for regulatory purposes

254(1), (3), (6) and (7) , section 260(2)(d), section 261(1), (4) section 262(5) and section 304(9), (10) and (12) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.