Section 254 of the Health and Social Care Act enables the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to direct the HSCIC (now known as NHS Digital) on matters concerning the provision of health services or adult social care in England. The Secretary of State can instruct NHS Digital to:
• Put in place systems to collect and analyse information.
• Develop or operate information or communication systems.
Directions given by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate an information system for the collection and analysis of General Practice data for health and social care purposes.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate information systems to collect and analyse data in connection with COVID-19, and develop and operate information and communication systems to deliver services in connection with COVID-19.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate an informatics support service for the 100,000 genomes project.
Directions given by the Secretary of State requiring the Health and Social Care Information Centre, now known as NHS Digital, to prepare accounts for the financial year ended 31 March 2014 and subsequent financial years.
Direction given by the Department of Health and Social Care to NHS Digital to continue to operate the Breast and Cosmetic Implant Registry (BCIR).
Directions given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system for the collection and analysis of client level adult social care data from certain local authorities to support local health and care systems.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate an informatics support service for the collection of information about Out of Area Placements (OAPS) for adults in mental health inpatient services.
Direction to continue the collection of information about Out of Area Placements (OAPs) for adults in acute mental health inpatient services from April 2018 for a further six months.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to continue to operate an informatics support service for the collection of information about out of area placements (OAPs) for adults in acute mental health inpatient services from 1 April 2019 to 31 October 2019.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system to be known as the Data Security and protection incident reporting tool Direction 2018.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system to be known as the data security and protection toolkit data collections service.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate an informatics system for the collection of emergency care data.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate an informatics system for the collection and analysis of work data to support patient care and the evaluation of the initiative Employment Advisers in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT).
Directions given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate the Female Genital Mutilation Risk Indication System (FGM RIS).
Directions given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system for the collection and analysis of information to be known as the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) information system.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system for the collection and analysis of individual GP level data.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system for the collection and analysis of individual GP data.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate such systems for the collection and analysis of data, and to exercise a system delivery function for use within the sector by health care providers whose data will traverse the network.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health to establish and operate an informatics system for information related to analysis of health and care interventions.
Directions given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate the learning disabilities census; and to exercise the system delivery functions described in the direction.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate an informatics system for the collection of data from local stop smoking services.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system for the collection of patient identifiable primary care prescribing and dispensing data from the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) for the purposes of analysis and linkage to Hospital Episode Statistical data (HES).
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system for the collection of patient identifiable primary care prescribing and dispensing data from the NHS Business Services Authority.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish the migration of the Unify2 collections listed in Annex A onto NHS Digital's Strategic Data Collections Service (SDCS) and continue the operation of these collections through this service.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system for the collection and analysis of information, and to exercise such systems delivering functions, in respect of the new national opt-out model.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system for the collection and analysis of information, and to exercise such systems delivering functions, in respect of the new national opt-out model.
Directions given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system to collect and analyse information to support the National pandemic flu service digital service.
Directions given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system for the collection and analysis of patient objections information, and to exercise such systems delivery functions of the Secretary of State as are expedient for NHS Digital to carry out the functions for the patient objections information system.
Directions given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system to process and uphold Type 2 objections.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish an information system for the collection or analysis of information about sales and purchases of unbranded generic medicines and special medicinal products, from manufacturers, wholesalers and importers.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate an informatics system for the collection and analysis of sexual and reproductive health data.
Directions given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate such systems for the collection and analysis of information as are necessary for it to deliver the Spine services, and to exercise such systems delivery functions of the Secretary of State as are necessary for it to deliver the Spine services.
Directions given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate an information system known as Statement of Fitness for Work Information System.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system for the collection and analysis of information related to NHS surplus land.
Directions given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to develop or operate NHS Choices on-line services information or communications systems.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system to collect and analyse information on child death reviews from Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards in England.
A Direction issued by Public Health England on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system for the collection of the Weekly ICU/HDU Flu Collection (UK Severe Influenza Surveillance System).
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to developer and operate such IT applications, IT infrastructure and IT systems as are necessary to deliver the digital interoperability platform.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system for the collection and analysis of adult social care data.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system for the collection of patient identifiable primary care prescribing and dispensing data from the NHS Business Services Authority.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish a collection of medicines spend and use data.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system to be known as the Workforce Information System requiring NHS Digital for the collection and analysis of workforce data.
NHS Digital is directed to establish and operate a system for the analysis of information to be known as the Life Sciences Directions 2019.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate an informatics support service for the collection of information about Out of Area Placements (OAPS) for adults in mental health inpatient services.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital collect and analyse information that NHS Digital does not already collect under separate directions regarding surgical devices and implants.
An extension for the Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate an informatics support service for the collection of information about Out of Area Placements (OAPS) for adults in mental health inpatient services.
Directions given by the Secretary of State to create the Data Security Centre to support health and care organisations to be more cyber resilient and respond to incidents promptly when they happen, working with the National Cyber Security Centre.
Directions given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system for the collection or analysis of information from the Community Services providers in England.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system for the collection and analysis of information to the extent necessary for it to provide confirmation of a person’s EU settlement status to the NHSBSA
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate such systems for the collection and analysis of mental health and wellbeing surveys information.
Directions given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a pilot system for the collection and analysis of client-level adult social care data from participating local authorities, and provide the mandatory information specified, to support local health and care systems.
A Direction letter given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to continue to operate an informatics support service for the collection of information about out of area placements (OAPs) for adults in acute mental health inpatient services
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to provide the NHS Digital Citizen Identity Platform and related services, collectively the NHS login Services.
A Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system to be known as the Immigration Health Charge Information System.
Direction given by the Secretary of State for Health requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate a system for the collection and analysis of data associated with a patient’s eligibility for free NHS services.