Consultation on Provisional Monthly Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) Workforce Statistics

A consultation on the proposal for publishing high-level NHS HCHS Workforce information on a monthly basis for Hospital Doctors and Non Medical Staff. Find out more about the consultation and give us your feedback.

Consultation on Eye Care publications

A consultation to help us understand who uses our eye care data to improve the information we publish. Find out more about the consultation and give us your feedback.

Sickness Absence Rates in the NHS

We consulted on a new publication, due to be released in December 2009, on sickness absence rates in the NHS. Find out more about the consultation here.

NHS Maternity Statistics Review

In May 2008 we launched a consultation to review the annual publication; NHS Maternity Statistics, England. The consultation is now closed. View the summary of the comments received and the plans for future work.

The Dental Workforce Review

In May 2008 we launched a consultation to review the methodology for counting and reporting the number of NHS Dentists in England and Wales. The consultation is now closed. View the summary of the comments received and the plans for future work

Wider Release of NHS Prescribing Data

The NHS Information Centre aims to promote the wider use of NHS transactional data for the purposes of improved patient care and the delivery of local NHS services. The number of requests to the NHS Information Centre and the Prescription Pricing Division of the NHS Business Service Authority for prescribing data has increased recently, including from commercial companies.

The paper ‘Wider release of prescribing data' provides an overview of the current position regarding the availability of prescribing data. It also reviews the relevant legislation, regulations and Department of Health policy that covers prescribing data, and proposes options for the wider release of these data.

The NHS Information Centre is consulting on the wider release of prescribing data within existing legislation on the following proposals:

• To publish raw PCT level prescribing data
• To provide raw practice level data for specific NHS purposes only

This consultation has now closed, read the outcomes of the consultation here.