Skip to main content
Creating a new NHS England: Health Education England, NHS Digital and NHS England have merged. More about the merger.

Secondary Uses Service (SUS) Guidance

SUS Guidance is a resource for SUS users on sending and accessing data, set-up and system support. For guidance on National Tariff/Payment by Results please refer to the SUS PbR Guidance page.

Page contents

General guidance

SUS Essentials

  • Getting started with SUS
  • Security and confidentiality
  • Accessing data and data quality issues
  • SUS service availability and incident management
  • Data sender deployment

Sending data

Sending CDS data

  • using BULK or NET submission methods
  • merging organisations
  • Submitting anonymous and Legally Restricted codes (previously known as Sensitive codes)
ARTICLE

Submitting CDS Data to SUS

This guidance provides information on some of the points to consider when sending data to the Secondary Uses Services (SUS) system. It should be read in conjunction with the NHS Data Dictionary which details the format and content of the data to be sent.

Schema guidance

Sender registration

ARTICLE

SUS registration overview

SUS is currently only directly available to NHS organisations (or their information suppliers such as shared information services) and only to a limited number of staff in each organisation. To access this information users must have a Spine smart card with the correct access rights

Accessing SUS

The portal user guide includes information on

  • browser requirements
  • access and authorisation
  • creating and scheduling extracts
  • Interchange tracking
  • error messages

Supporting guidance

 

ARTICLE

SUS Portal user guide

SUS guidance is a resource for SUS users on sending and accessing data, set-up and system support.

SEM and PbR

Guidance on the differences and mapping between Standard Extract Mart SEM and PbR (Payment By Results).

SEM vs. PbR Summary v1.0

xlsx 13 KB

SUS+ historical data request

Users requiring access to  historical data archive should complete this form and submit to National Service Desk for review.

Service announcements and outages

Monthly trust reports

The latest monthly trust reports are available on the operational support page.

Useful Links

ARTICLE

Standards and collections

An alphabetical list of all current approved national information standards and data collections (including extractions).

Contact us

Please report any service issues via the ServiceNow Portal (log in required), or call 0300 303 5035.

Last edited: 1 December 2023 10:27 am