Data Access Request Service (DARS) products and services
NHS Digital is committed to only releasing patient and service user data to those who have a genuine need for it and can demonstrate this to an independent oversight panel.
These pages provide a link to the description of data sets readily available to request through our Data Access Request service (DARS). These data may be provided in the Secure Data Environment or as an extract. For clinical trials you may also want to use the DigiTrials Service which can also provide access to this data.
- We do not make all our data sets available for public release.
- Some data sets are only available to those organisations which commission and pay for health and care services.
- Other data sets may only be available to a listed number of approved users. To enquire about any other data set not listed contact the DARS applications team.
Please be aware that due to the differences in the cohorts used to create publications versus those in the available data, it may not be possible to reproduce results from official statistical publications using data under an NHS England data sharing agreement.
Contact us
If you have any queries that are not answered by the online resources listed for each data set, please contact the data applications team.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 0300 303 5678
Further information
We support clinical trials that are developing new treatments to improve health and care.
The NHS England Secure Data Environment (SDE) is a secure data and research analysis platform. It is part of an interoperable NHS Research Secure Data Environment network.
We're responsible for ensuring NHS Digital meets its statutory and service obligations to commissioners. We do this via the Data Services for Commissioners Regional Offices (DSCROs) and by developing and implementing policies and plans.
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