Our national data sets collect information from care records, systems and organisations on specific areas of health and care. This is used to inform policy and monitor and improve care.
The Department of Health and NHS England tell us to collect data so they can learn about specific areas of policy interest and measure the progress of policy initiatives. We work with these partners and groups of health and social care professionals, patients, and IT systems suppliers to design and develop these collections.
Our standards and collections section, details the assurance for all national data sets.
Commissioning Data Sets (CDS) enable national reporting on NHS funded or provided secondary care.
Welcome to the CSDS core page. This page aims to be the centre point for all information relating to the data set, giving community service providers and their system suppliers easy access to the information they need to implement the CSDS and submit community services data.
The Critical Care Minimum Data Set is collected from all hospitals and other locations which provide all elements of critical care, to support payment, commissioning and national policy analysis.
The Diagnostic Imaging Data Set (DID) collects data about diagnostic imaging tests carried out on NHS patients, extracted from local radiology information systems.
The Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) is the national data set for urgent and emergency care. It replaced Accident & Emergency Commissioning Data Set (CDS type 010) and was implemented through: ECDS (CDS 6.2.2 Type 011)
The Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Enhanced Dataset supports the Department of Health's FGM Prevention Programme by presenting a national picture of the prevalence of FGM in England.
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Data Set provides IAPT service providers and their system suppliers easy access to the information they need to implement the IAPT data set and submit IAPT services data.
Welcome to the Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS) core page. These pages aim to be the central point for all information relating to this data set, giving maternity service providers and their system suppliers easy access to the information they need to implement the MSDS and submit maternity services data.
This page aims to be the centre point for all information relating to the data set, giving mental health service providers and their system suppliers easy access to the information they need to implement the MHSDS and submit mental health services data.
NHS Digital is working to identify, collect and submit national perioperative data from NHS, private providers in England and across the devolved nations to generate UK wide coverage.
We maintain the National Workforce Data set (NWD) and the NHS Occupation Codes, which together specify the data standards for NHS workforce information, including implementation within the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).
The Neonatal Critical Care Minimum Data Set (NCCMDS) provides a record of what happens to a patient when they receive neonatal critical care in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Maternity Ward or Neonatal Transitional Care Ward.
The NHS Continuing Healthcare (NHS CHC) Data Set is a patient level, output based, secondary uses data set which aims to deliver robust, comprehensive, nationally consistent, and comparable person- based information for people (over the age of 18 years) accessing NHS CHC services and NHS-funded Nursing Care located in England.
The Paediatric Critical Care Minimum Data Set (PCCMDS) records what happens to a patient when they receive paediatric critical care in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) or other critical care setting suitable for children.