Services
Our services improve the use of data in health and social care. They define what is needed, allow it to be collected and ensure that it will lead to useful information. We support existing national policies and look at future information needs.
The Casemix Service
Developing clinical grouping methodologies and software products that enable the NHS to record clinical activity.
The Data Quality Programme
Our national programme designed to improve data quality in health and social care.
Datasets
Coordinating, developing, implementing and maintaining national datasets in England.
The Diabetes Patient Experience Project
Capturing the service experiences of users with diabetes.
Independent Sector Information Programme
Ensuring high quality data for all NHS-funded care by including private sector providers within stakeholder and reference groups.
Measuring for Quality Improvement
Helping you measure and improve quality locally.
Medical Research Information Service
Providing health information to support medical researchers.
Mental health
Collecting information about people who use a range of NHS mental health services, including in-patient and out-patient services and community care.
National Clinical Audit Support Programme (NCASP)
Measuring the quality of patient care and improvements over time, our national audits are in the areas of cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
NHS Adoptions Service
Checking and forwarding vital medical information between adoptees or birth relatives of adoptees.
NHS Comparators
A free comparative analytical service that enables commissioners and providers to improve the quality of care delivered by benchmarking and comparing activity and costs on a local, regional and national level.
NHS iView
Access and extract information to meet your own needs. Make selections, view comparisons, create tables and generate graphs.
Omnibus Survey
Helping NHS and social care organisations submit vital data to us.
Prescribing Support Unit (PSU)
Improving the cost-effectiveness of prescribed drugs in the UK.
Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)
Measuring treatment outcomes from the patients' perspective.
Primary Care Information Services (PRIMIS+)
Improving data quality and information management through training and support.
Review of Central Returns (ROCR)
Reducing the burden of data collections on the NHS.
Secondary Uses Service (SUS)
Providing anonymous patient-based data for purposes other than direct clinical care.
Social care
Our social care service ensures that we meet existing and future needs.
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In development
In additon to our established services we have a number of services and projects that are in development.