The minimum data set (MDS) collection for health visiting (HV) provides the number of full time equivalent (FTE) health visitors employed by all NHS organisations, Local Authorities and Social Enterprises. It collects information from Area Teams (ATs) that employ health visitors but do not use the Electronic Staff Record (ESR), such as local authorities and some social enterprises. Those NHS organisations using ESR have their HV numbers fed directly into the collection.

The MDS collection for HV differs from the monthly workforce statistics published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre as it is solely focused on health visitors and includes those who are employed by non-NHS organisations and those organisations that do not use ESR over and above those NHS organisations included in the standard monthly workforce statistics.

This report shows monthly numbers of NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) staff working in NHS Trusts and other core organisations in England (excluding primary care staff). Data are available as headcount and full-time equivalents and for all months from 30 September 2009 onwards. These data are a summary of the validated data extracted from the NHS HR and Payroll system. Additional statistics on staff in NHS Trusts and other core organisations and information for NHS Support Organisations and Central Bodies are published each: September (showing June statistics) December/January (showing September statistics) March (showing December statistics) June (showing March statistics) Quarterly NHS Staff Earnings, monthly NHS Staff Sickness Absence reports, and data relating to the General Practice workforce and the Independent Healthcare Provider workforce are also available via the Related Links below. We welcome feedback on the methodology and tables within this publication. Please email us with your comments and suggestions, clearly stating Monthly HCHS Workforce as the subject heading, via enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk or 0300 303 5678.

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Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics

This publication provides the most timely picture available of people using NHS funded secondary mental health, learning disabilities and autism services in England. These are experimental statistics which are undergoing development and evaluation. This information will be of use to people needing access to information quickly for operational decision making and other purposes. More detailed information on the quality and completeness of these statistics is made available later in our Mental Health Bulletin: Annual Report publication series.

• COVID-19 and the production of statistics

Due to the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) disruption, it would seem that this is now starting to affect the quality and coverage of some of our statistics, such as an increase in non-submissions for some datasets. We are also starting to see some different patterns in the submitted data. For example, fewer patients are being referred to hospital and more appointments being carried out via phone/telemedicine/email. Therefore, data should be interpreted with care over the COVID-19 period.

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Time period covered Feb 1, 2020 - April 31, 2020

Area covered England

Acknowledgements

reference: Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics

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This dataset is to solve the challenge- UNCOVER COVID-19 Challenge, United Network for COVID Data Exploration and Research. This data is scraped in hopes of solving the task - Mental health impact and support services.

Task Details Can we predict changes in demand for mental health services and how can we ensure access? (by region, social/economic/demographic factors, etc). Are there signs of shifts in mental health challenges across demographies, whether improvements or declines, as a result of COVID-19 and the various measures implement to contain the pandemic?

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background The Commission for Health Improvement (CHI), in conjunction with the Department of Health (DH), appointed Aston University to develop and pilot a new national National Health Service (NHS) staff survey, commencing in 2003, and to establish an advice centre and web site to support that process. Administration of the programme was taken over by the Healthcare Commission in time for the 2004 series. On the 1st April 2009, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) was formed which replaced the Healthcare Commission (users should note that some of the surveys in the series conducted prior to this date will still be attributed to the Healthcare Commission). In 2011 the Department of Health took over management of the survey. Since 2013 NHS England (NHSE) have been in charge of the survey programme. Researchers at Aston University were responsible for the initial development of the survey questionnaire instrument, and for the setting up of the NHS National Staff Survey Advice Centre. From 2011, Picker Institute Europe took over from Aston University as survey contractors. All organisations concerned worked in partnership to consult widely with NHS staff about the content of the new national survey. The work was conducted under the guidance of a stakeholder group, which contained representatives from the staff side, CQC, DH, human resources directors, Strategic Health Authorities and the NHS workforce. Aims and conduct of the survey The purpose of the annual NHS staff survey is to collect staff views about working in their local NHS trust. The survey has been designed to replace trusts' own annual staff surveys, the DH '10 core questions', and the HC 'Clinical Governance Review' staff surveys. It is intended that this one annual survey will cover the needs of HC, DH and trusts. Thus, it provides information for deriving national performance measures (including star ratings) and to help the NHS, at national and local level, work towards the 'Improving Working Lives' standard. The design also incorporates questions relating to the 'Positively Diverse Programme'. Trusts will be able to use the findings to identify how their policies are working in practice. The survey enables organisations, for the first time, to benchmark themselves against other similar NHS organisations and the NHS as a whole, on a range of measures of staff satisfaction and opinion. From 2013, the NHS Staff Survey went out to all main trust types - social enterprises, clinical commissioning groups and clinical support units were able to opt themselves in to the survey. Organisations were allowed to conduct the survey electronically and to submit data for an entire census or extended sample of their organisation. Previously the sample was restricted to 850 staff. The collection of data (i.e. the survey fieldwork) is conducted by a number of independent survey contractors (see documentation for individual survey information). The contractors are appointed directly by each NHS trust in England and are required to follow a set of detailed guidance notes supplied by the Advice Centre (see web site link above), which covers the methodology required for the survey. For example, this includes details on how to draw the random sample, the requirements for printing of questionnaires, letters to be sent to respondents, data entry and submission. At the end of the fieldwork, the data are then sent to the Advice Centre. From the data submitted, each participating NHS trust in England receives a benchmarked 'Feedback Report' from the Advice Centre, which also produces (on behalf of the Department of Health) a series of detailed spreadsheets which report details of each question covered in the survey for each participating trust in England, and also a 'Key Findings' summary report covering the survey findings at national level. Further information about the survey series and related publications are available from the Advice Centre web site (see link above). Main Topics:Topics covered in the survey include: work-life balance; appraisal; training, learning and development; team working; health and safety; errors and incidents witnessed; job characteristics and arrangements; management and supervision; perceptions of organisation worked for; harassment, bullying and violence; and respondents' demographic characteristics. See documentation for further details.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background The Commission for Health Improvement (CHI), in conjunction with the Department of Health (DH), appointed Aston University to develop and pilot a new national National Health Service (NHS) staff survey, commencing in 2003, and to establish an advice centre and web site to support that process. Administration of the programme was taken over by the Healthcare Commission in time for the 2004 series. On the 1st April 2009, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) was formed which replaced the Healthcare Commission (users should note that some of the surveys in the series conducted prior to this date will still be attributed to the Healthcare Commission). In 2011 the Department of Health took over management of the survey. Since 2013 NHS England (NHSE) have been in charge of the survey programme. Researchers at Aston University were responsible for the initial development of the survey questionnaire instrument, and for the setting up of the NHS National Staff Survey Advice Centre. From 2011, Picker Institute Europe took over from Aston University as survey contractors. All organisations concerned worked in partnership to consult widely with NHS staff about the content of the new national survey. The work was conducted under the guidance of a stakeholder group, which contained representatives from the staff side, CQC, DH, human resources directors, Strategic Health Authorities and the NHS workforce. Aims and conduct of the survey The purpose of the annual NHS staff survey is to collect staff views about working in their local NHS trust. The survey has been designed to replace trusts' own annual staff surveys, the DH '10 core questions', and the HC 'Clinical Governance Review' staff surveys. It is intended that this one annual survey will cover the needs of HC, DH and trusts. Thus, it provides information for deriving national performance measures (including star ratings) and to help the NHS, at national and local level, work towards the 'Improving Working Lives' standard. The design also incorporates questions relating to the 'Positively Diverse Programme'. Trusts will be able to use the findings to identify how their policies are working in practice. The survey enables organisations, for the first time, to benchmark themselves against other similar NHS organisations and the NHS as a whole, on a range of measures of staff satisfaction and opinion. From 2013, the NHS Staff Survey went out to all main trust types - social enterprises, clinical commissioning groups and clinical support units were able to opt themselves in to the survey. Organisations were allowed to conduct the survey electronically and to submit data for an entire census or extended sample of their organisation. Previously the sample was restricted to 850 staff. The collection of data (i.e. the survey fieldwork) is conducted by a number of independent survey contractors (see documentation for individual survey information). The contractors are appointed directly by each NHS trust in England and are required to follow a set of detailed guidance notes supplied by the Advice Centre (see web site link above), which covers the methodology required for the survey. For example, this includes details on how to draw the random sample, the requirements for printing of questionnaires, letters to be sent to respondents, data entry and submission. At the end of the fieldwork, the data are then sent to the Advice Centre. From the data submitted, each participating NHS trust in England receives a benchmarked 'Feedback Report' from the Advice Centre, which also produces (on behalf of the Department of Health) a series of detailed spreadsheets which report details of each question covered in the survey for each participating trust in England, and also a 'Key Findings' summary report covering the survey findings at national level. Further information about the survey series and related publications are available from the Advice Centre web site (see link above). Main Topics:Topics covered in the survey include: work-life balance; appraisal; training, learning and development; team working; health and safety; errors and incidents witnessed; job characteristics and arrangements; management and supervision; perceptions of organisation worked for; harassment, bullying and violence; and respondents' demographic characteristics.

Legacy unique identifier: P01748

Trust-Level Data: Data is broken down by individual NHS Trusts, enabling regional comparisons, benchmarking, and targeted analysis of specific Trusts. Medicine Identification: Medicines in the dataset are identified using Virtual Medicinal Product (VMP) codes from the Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d): VMP_PRODUCT_NAME: The name of the Virtual Medicinal Product (VMP) as defined by the dm+d, which includes key details about the product. For example: Paracetamol 500mg tablets. VMP_SNOMED_CODE: The code for the Virtual Medicinal Product (VMP), providing a unique identifier for each product. For example: 42109611000001109 represents Paracetamol 500mg tablets. By making this data publicly available, the NHSBSA aims to enhance transparency, accountability, and the effective use of NHS resources. Overview of Service Information about our NHSBSA Prescriptions Data service can be found here - Prescription data | NHSBSA

In conclusion the NHSBSA believes that the public interest lies in withholding the information because there is substantially more public interest in our systems remaining safe and secure. Section 43(2) Information is exempt from disclosure under section 43(2) if its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of any person, including the NHSBSA. This exemption is a prejudice based ‘qualified’ exemption and is subject to the public interest test. This means that the disclosure of the information would be likely to prejudice our commercial interests and that the public interest in applying the exemption must outweigh the public interest in disclosing the information. In this case we have identified that the commercial interests that would be likely to be harmed is the NHSBSA’s. This is because NHSBSA’s attractiveness to prospective and current employees was achieved through hundreds of hours of work and implementing improvements to our processes. The employment market is very competitive for employers, and prospective employees look at organisations as a whole, including their approach to inclusion and how reflective the organisation is of them. By placing our submission into the public domain in its entirety, we’ve considered the risk of other organisations, copying the work we do in this space. This will reduce our attraction as an employer and would be likely to impact our ability to recruit effectively and have a diverse colleague base, resulting in a detrimental impact on delivering our strategic goals.

NHS payslips follow the same format; the only differences are use of the Welsh logo and the ability to provide payslips in Welsh language. API There are no plans to develop an API as all NHS employees have access to their online payslips through ESR self-service access. Publishing this response Please note that this information will be published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at: https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02091

The National Child Development Study (NCDS) is a continuing longitudinal study that seeks to follow the lives of all those living in Great Britain who were born in one particular week in 1958. The aim of the study is to improve understanding of the factors affecting human development over the whole lifespan.

The NCDS has its origins in the Perinatal Mortality Survey (PMS) (the original PMS study is held at the UK Data Archive under SN 2137). This study was sponsored by the National Birthday Trust Fund and designed to examine the social and obstetric factors associated with stillbirth and death in early infancy among the 17,000 children born in England, Scotland and Wales in that one week. Selected data from the PMS form NCDS sweep 0, held alongside NCDS sweeps 1-3, under SN 5565.

Survey and Biomeasures Data (GN 33004):
To date there have been ten attempts to trace all members of the birth cohort in order to monitor their physical, educational and social development. The first three sweeps were carried out by the National Children's Bureau, in 1965, when respondents were aged 7, in 1969, aged 11, and in 1974, aged 16 (these sweeps form NCDS1-3, held together with NCDS0 under SN 5565). The fourth sweep, also carried out by the National Children's Bureau, was conducted in 1981, when respondents were aged 23 (held under SN 5566). In 1985 the NCDS moved to the Social Statistics Research Unit (SSRU) - now known as the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS). The fifth sweep was carried out in 1991, when respondents were aged 33 (held under SN 5567). For the sixth sweep, conducted in 1999-2000, when respondents were aged 42 (NCDS6, held under SN 5578), fieldwork was combined with the 1999-2000 wave of the 1970 Birth Cohort Study (BCS70), which was also conducted by CLS (and held under GN 33229). The seventh sweep was conducted in 2004-2005 when the respondents were aged 46 (held under SN 5579), the eighth sweep was conducted in 2008-2009 when respondents were aged 50 (held under SN 6137), the ninth sweep was conducted in 2013 when respondents were aged 55 (held under SN 7669), and the tenth sweep was conducted in 2020-24 when the respondents were aged 60-64 (held under SN 9412).

A Secure Access version of the NCDS is available under SN 9413, containing detailed sensitive variables not available under Safeguarded access (currently only sweep 10 data). Variables include uncommon health conditions (including age at diagnosis), full employment codes and income/finance details, and specific life circumstances (e.g. pregnancy details, year/age of emigration from GB).

Four separate datasets covering responses to NCDS over all sweeps are available. National Child Development Deaths Dataset: Special Licence Access (SN 7717) covers deaths; National Child Development Study Response and Outcomes Dataset (SN 5560) covers all other responses and outcomes; National Child Development Study: Partnership Histories (SN 6940) includes data on live-in relationships; and National Child Development Study: Activity Histories (SN 6942) covers work and non-work activities. Users are advised to order these studies alongside the other waves of NCDS.

From 2002-2004, a Biomedical Survey was completed and is available under End User Licence (EUL) (SN 8731) and Special Licence (SL) (SN 5594). Proteomics analyses of blood samples are available under SL SN 9254.

Linked Geographical Data (GN 33497):
A number of geographical variables are available, under more restrictive access conditions, which can be linked to the NCDS EUL and SL access studies.

Linked Administrative Data (GN 33396):
A number of linked administrative datasets are available, under more restrictive access conditions, which can be linked to the NCDS EUL and SL access studies. These include a Deaths dataset (SN 7717) available under SL and the Linked Health Administrative Datasets (SN 8697) available under Secure Access.

Multi-omics Data and Risk Scores Data (GN 33592)
Proteomics analyses were run on the blood samples collected from NCDS participants in 2002-2004 and are available under SL SN 9254. Metabolomics analyses were conducted on respondents of sweep 10 and are available under SL SN 9411.

Additional Sub-Studies (GN 33562):
In addition to the main NCDS sweeps, further studies have also been conducted on a range of subjects such as parent migration, unemployment, behavioural studies and respondent essays. The full list of NCDS studies available from the UK Data Service can be found on the NCDS series access data webpage.

How to access genetic and/or bio-medical sample data from a range of longitudinal surveys:
For information on how to access biomedical data from NCDS that are not held at the UKDS, see the CLS Genetic data and biological samples webpage.

Further information about the full NCDS series can be found on the Centre for Longitudinal Studies website.

The National Child Development Study: Linked Health Administrative Datasets (Hospital Episode Statistics), England, 1997-2023: Secure Access includes data files from the NHS Digital HES database for those cohort members who provided consent to health data linkage in the Age 50 sweep. The HES database contains information about all hospital admissions in England. The following linked HES data are available:

1) Accident and Emergency (A&E)
The A&E dataset details each attendance to an Accident and Emergency care facility in England, between 01-04-2007 and 31-03-2020 (inclusive). It includes major A&E departments, single speciality A&E departments, minor injury units and walk-in centres in England.

2) Admitted Patient Care (APC)
The APC data summarises episodes of care for admitted patients, where the episode occurred between 01-04-1997 and 31-03-2023 (inclusive).

3) Critical Care (CC)
The CC dataset covers records of critical care activity between 01-04-2009 and 31-03-2023 (inclusive).

4) Out Patient (OP)
The OP dataset lists the outpatient appointments between 01-04-2003 and 31-03-2023 (inclusive).

5) Emergency Care Dataset (ECDS)
The ECDS lists the emergency care appointments between 01-04-2020 and 31-03-2023 (inclusive).

6) Consent data
The consents dataset describes consent to linkage, and is current at the time of deposit.

CLS/ NHS Digital Sub-licence agreement
NHS Digital has given CLS permission for onward sharing of the NCDS/HES dataset via the UKDS Secure Lab. In order to ensure data minimisation, NHS Digital requires that researchers only access the HES variables needed for their approved research project. Therefore, the HES linked data provided by the UKDS to approved researchers will be subject to sub-setting of variables. The researcher will need to request a specific sub-set of variables from the NCDS/HES data dictionary, which will subsequently be made available within their UKDS Secure Account. Once the researcher has finished their research, the UKDS will delete the tailored dataset for that specific project. Any party wishing to access the data deposited at the UK Data Service will be required to enter into a Licence agreement with CLS (UCL), in addition to the agreements signed with the UKDS, provided in the application pack.

CLS Hospital Episode Statistics data access update July 2025

From March 2027, HES data linked to all four CLS studies will no longer be available via the UK Data Service. For projects ending before March 2027, uses should continue to apply via UKDS. However, if access to a wider range of linked Longitudinal Population Studies data is needed, UKLLC might be more suitable. For projects ending after March 2027, users must apply via UKLLC.

Latest edition information
For the third edition (April 2025), the data have been updated to include linked data for the financial years 2017-2022. In addition, a new dataset for Emergency Care (ECDS) episodes has been added, along with a dataset detailing the consent for linkage. Furthermore, the study documentation has also been updated.

The Brain Health Data Pilot (BHDP) project aims to be a shared database (like a library) of information for scientists studying brain health, especially for diseases like dementia, which affects about 900,000 people in the UK. Its main feature is a huge collection of brain images linked to routinely collected health records, both from NHS Scotland, which will help scientists learn more about dementia and other brain diseases. What is special about this database is that it will get better over time – as scientists use it and add their discoveries, it becomes more valuable.

This dataset is a subset of the Prescribing Information System (PIS) data for use with the BHDP project.

The information is supplied by Practitioner & Counter Fraud Services Division (P&CFS) who is responsible for the processing and pricing of all prescriptions dispensed in Scotland. These data are augmented with information on prescriptions written in Scotland that were dispensed elsewhere in the United Kingdom. GP’s write the vast majority of these prescriptions, with the remainder written by other authorised prescribers such as nurses and dentists. Also included in the dataset are prescriptions written in hospitals that are dispensed in the community. Note that prescriptions dispensed within hospitals are not included. Data includes CHI number, prescriber and dispenser details for community prescribing, costs and drug information. Data on practices (e.g. list size), organisational structures (e.g. practices within Community Health Partnerships (CHPs) and NHS Boards), prescribable items (e.g. manufacturer, formulation code, strength) are also included. Around 100 million data items are loaded per annum.

To support respiratory research, a synthetic asthma dataset was generated based on a real-world data, originally documenting 381 patients with physician-confirmed asthma who were admitted to secondary care at a single centre in 2019. The dataset is highly detailed, covering demographics, structured physiological data, medication records, and clinical outcomes. The synthetic version extends to 561 patients admitted over a year, offering insights into patient patterns, risk factors, and treatment strategies.

The dataset was created using the Synthetic Data Vault package, specifically employing the GAN synthesizer. Real data was first read and pre-processed, ensuring datetime columns were correctly parsed and identifiers were handled as strings. Metadata was defined to capture the schema, specifying field types and primary keys. This metadata guided the synthesizer in understanding the structure of the data. The GAN synthesizer was then fitted to the real data, learning the distributions and dependencies within. After fitting, the synthesizer generated synthetic data that mirrors the statistical properties and relationships of the original dataset.

Geography: The West Midlands has a population of 6 million & includes a diverse ethnic & socio-economic mix. UHB is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England, providing direct acute services & specialist care across four hospital sites, with 2.2 million patient episodes per year, 2750 beds & > 120 ITU bed capacity. UHB runs a fully electronic healthcare record (PICS; Birmingham Systems), a shared primary & secondary care record (Your Care Connected) & a patient portal “My Health”.

Data set availability: Data access is available via the PIONEER Hub for projects which will benefit the public or patients. This can be by developing a new understanding of disease, by providing insights into how to improve care, or by developing new models, tools, treatments, or care processes. Data access can be provided to NHS, academic, commercial, policy and third sector organisations. Applications from SMEs are welcome. There is a single data access process, with public oversight provided by our public review committee, the Data Trust Committee. Contact pioneer@uhb.nhs.uk or visit www.pioneerdatahub.co.uk for more details.

Available supplementary data: Real world data. Matched controls; ambulance and community data. Unstructured data (images). We can provide the dataset in OMOP and other common data models and can provide real-world data upon request.

Available supplementary support: Analytics, model build, validation & refinement; A.I. support. Data partner support for ETL (extract, transform & load) processes. Bespoke and “off the shelf” Trusted Research Environment build and run. Consultancy with clinical, patient & end-user and purchaser access/ support. Support for regulatory requirements. Cohort discovery. Data-driven trials and “fast screen” services to assess population size.

To use the document, click on the link above and scroll to the link on the page titled “View the January 2024 Drug Tariff online”. Once in the file, use the search function on the left-hand side to search for ‘contraceptive’. Click on the link(s) that appear, and you will be able to see a breakdown of the products available and the cost in pence to the NHS. Data on prescribing volumes and costs for English dispensing in the community can be found in the published Prescription Cost Analysis statistics (PCA), this data is classified against what is considered to be the 'main' therapeutic use for the pharmaceutical 'presentation' expressed using the (pseudo) British National Formulary (BNF) hierarchy. The tables include a breakdown with each pharmaceutical presentation reported separately. https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/prescription-cost-analysis-england To use the document, click on the link above and scroll to the “Resource List”. From here you can choose to view the data on a national scale or narrowed down to local ICB level. Once in the file, we recommend downloading the file in order to filter the columns for ease of access. We recommend using the National Summary Tables and viewing Table 6: BNF presentation level data. Within this file you can filter by name in column C or the measurement in column D. We recommend that you access this data knowing the names of the medication, devices or patches you require. Please be aware of the PCA methodology which may be relevant depending on interpretation. https://nhsbsa-opendata.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/pca/pca_background_info_methodology_v001.html The basis of the cost information included in the PCA data is described in the 'metadata' section included with the release and relates to the amount included in the reimbursement. NHSBSA prescription data only covers prescription items that have been submitted for reimbursement by community NHS dispensing contractors - this does not include any direct purchases made by other parts of the NHS (for example hospitals or other facilities that are operated by NHS Trusts). The NHS Business Services Authority does not hold data - including cost information - about appointments.

I refer to your request under the Freedom of Information Act, which I received on 2 July 2023 for information about the following: How many other ex employees are in the same position as I was being totally unaware as I was and thinking their contributions would lead to a pension payout at the time of retirement Response Please be advised that the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) does not hold the requested information. We could provide figures for the number of people who would be entitled to a refund because they were members of the NHS Pension scheme for less than two years, but have not received it. If you’d be interested in these figures, please submit a new FOI request. In support of the administration of the Scheme, Employers are required to provide employees joining the Scheme with the relevant Scheme Guide: https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/2015%20Members%20Guide%20%28V11%29%2007.2021.pdf They are also required to provide those leaving the Scheme with a Leaving Early and Transferring Out Guide: https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/2018-11/Leaving%20Early%20and%20Transferring%20Out%20Guide%20%28V16%29%20-%2011.2018.pdf This is in accordance with the Employer Charter. Page 8 refers to New Starters (joiners) and Page 14 to Scheme Leavers: https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/2018-02/Employers%20Charter%20%28V8%29%2002.2018.pdf Other sources of help are available to members in respect of their entitlement after leaving the Scheme which can be accessed via our website: https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/member-hub/leaving-or-taking-break-scheme

Please provide the following information under FOI law full schedule of uk databases used to check eligibility for Health Insurance Card eg NI, passport, register of births number of applications for HI Card received april 22-april 23 number of applications rejected due to lack of proof of eligibility april 22-april 23 number of people required to provide further proof following application NHS definition of legal criteria for eligibility for Health Insurance Card Your request was received on 16 August 2023 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. On 3 December 2023 you clarified the following: 1) When assessing UK Global Health Insurance Card applications does the Authority have access to UK Government records? For example Registration of Births, National Insurance, EU Settlement Scheme records, UK Passport Office Records, DVA Records of Driving Licences? 2) Please give me the number of applications for UK Global Health Insurance Card applications in the last financial year. Please also indicate the number that were approved and the number rejected due to insufficient proof of residency. On 27th December 2023 you clarified the following: 5) I can confirm I want the information for EHIC, UK EHIC and UK GHIC. Response Question 1 When assessing UK Global Health Insurance Card applications, the NHSBSA has access to some UK Government records, such as EU settlement Scheme records. The NHSBSA does not have access to National Insurance records, Registration of Births, UK Passport Office Records or DVA Records. UK Global Health Insurance Card applications are based on a residency system and the NHSBSA will use third party data provider Equifax to establish UK residency. This is stated in our Privacy Notice. https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/our-policies/privacy/overseas-healthcare-services-privacy-notice#:~:text=You%20have%20the%20right%20to,it%20for%20longer%20than%20necessary Question 2 There were 6,510,849 UK Global Health Insurance Card applications in the last financial year. Question 3 and 4 6,016,310 applications were approved and 145,876 were rejected because we were unable to establish proof of residency. The remaining applications were either rejected for other reasons, or we have not yet finished dealing with them. Question 5 The following links provide definitions of legal criteria for eligibility for UK GHIC and UK EHIC: • https://faq.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/knowledgebase/article/KA-26813 • https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/healthcare-abroad/apply-for-a-free-uk-global-health-insurance-card-ghic/ Please note that we do not issue EHIC anymore as that card has been replaced by the UK EHIC.

Dementia is a progressive condition that affects cognitive and functional abilities. There is a need for reliable and continuous health monitoring of People Living with Dementia (PLWD) to improve their quality of life and support their independent living. Healthcare services often focus on addressing and treating already established health conditions that affect PLWD. Managing these conditions continuously can inform better decision-making earlier for higher-quality care management for PLWD. The Technology Integrated Health Management (TIHM) project developed a new digital platform to routinely collect longitudinal observational and measurement data within the home and apply machine learning and analytical models for the detection and prediction of adverse health events affecting the well-being of PLWD. This work describes the TIHM dataset collected during the second phase (i.e., feasibility study) of the TIHM project. The data was collected from homes of 56 PLWD and associated with events and clinical observations (daily activity, physiological monitoring, and labels for health-related conditions). The study recorded an average of 50 days of data per participant, totalling 2803 days.

We have provided raw data and guidelines on how to access, visualise, manipulate and predict health-related events within the dataset, available on the Github repository. The Jupyter Notebooks have been developed using Python 3.9.

The dataset is provided for research and patient benefit purposes.
Please acknowledge the Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in any publication or use of this dataset.

Resuscitation to Recovery is the national framework to improve care of people with Out of hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA). Despite this, survival rates continue to be around 10%. Recently an OHCA care pathway been developed by the British Cardiovascular Interventional Society, aiming to reduce unwarranted variation in interventional cardiovascular practice for OHCA. However, little research has tracked the care OHCA patients receive along the whole pathway. 

To support a better understanding of OHCA care pathways, PIONEER, working with the NIHR Midlands Applied Research Collaboration and West Midlands Ambulance Service, has curated a highly granular dataset of 1588 OHCA events. The data includes demography, comorbidities, initial presentation, serial physiology, assessments, treatment provided both before and after West Midlands Ambulance Service arrival, onward hospital investigations, management and outcomes, including future healthcare use. The current dataset includes OHCA from 2018 to 2022 but can be expanded to assess other timelines of interest.

Geography: The West Midlands (WM) has a population of 6 million & includes a diverse ethnic & socio-economic mix. UHB is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England, providing direct acute services & specialist care across four hospital sites, with 2.2 million patient episodes per year, 2750 beds & > 120 ITU bed capacity. UHB runs a fully electronic healthcare record (EHR) (PICS; Birmingham Systems), a shared primary & secondary care record (Your Care Connected) & a patient portal “My Health”.

Data set availability: Data access is available via the PIONEER Hub for projects which will benefit the public or patients. This can be by developing a new understanding of disease, by providing insights into how to improve care, or by developing new models, tools, treatments, or care processes. Data access can be provided to NHS, academic, commercial, policy and third sector organisations. Applications from SMEs are welcome. There is a single data access process, with public oversight provided by our public review committee, the Data Trust Committee. Contact pioneer@uhb.nhs.uk or visit www.pioneerdatahub.co.uk for more details.

Available supplementary data: Matched controls; ambulance and community data. Unstructured data (images). We can provide the dataset in OMOP and other common data models and can build synthetic data to meet bespoke requirements.

Available supplementary support: Analytics, model build, validation & refinement; A.I. support. Data partner support for ETL (extract, transform & load) processes. Bespoke and “off the shelf” Trusted Research Environment (TRE) build and run. Consultancy with clinical, patient & end-user and purchaser access/ support. Support for regulatory requirements. Cohort discovery. Data-driven trials and “fast screen” services to assess population size.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background The Commission for Health Improvement (CHI), in conjunction with the Department of Health (DH), appointed Aston University to develop and pilot a new national National Health Service (NHS) staff survey, commencing in 2003, and to establish an advice centre and web site to support that process. Administration of the programme was taken over by the Healthcare Commission in time for the 2004 series. On the 1st April 2009, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) was formed which replaced the Healthcare Commission (users should note that some of the surveys in the series conducted prior to this date will still be attributed to the Healthcare Commission). In 2011 the Department of Health took over management of the survey. Since 2013 NHS England (NHSE) have been in charge of the survey programme. Researchers at Aston University were responsible for the initial development of the survey questionnaire instrument, and for the setting up of the NHS National Staff Survey Advice Centre. From 2011, Picker Institute Europe took over from Aston University as survey contractors. All organisations concerned worked in partnership to consult widely with NHS staff about the content of the new national survey. The work was conducted under the guidance of a stakeholder group, which contained representatives from the staff side, CQC, DH, human resources directors, Strategic Health Authorities and the NHS workforce. Aims and conduct of the survey The purpose of the annual NHS staff survey is to collect staff views about working in their local NHS trust. The survey has been designed to replace trusts' own annual staff surveys, the DH '10 core questions', and the HC 'Clinical Governance Review' staff surveys. It is intended that this one annual survey will cover the needs of HC, DH and trusts. Thus, it provides information for deriving national performance measures (including star ratings) and to help the NHS, at national and local level, work towards the 'Improving Working Lives' standard. The design also incorporates questions relating to the 'Positively Diverse Programme'. Trusts will be able to use the findings to identify how their policies are working in practice. The survey enables organisations, for the first time, to benchmark themselves against other similar NHS organisations and the NHS as a whole, on a range of measures of staff satisfaction and opinion. From 2013, the NHS Staff Survey went out to all main trust types - social enterprises, clinical commissioning groups and clinical support units were able to opt themselves in to the survey. Organisations were allowed to conduct the survey electronically and to submit data for an entire census or extended sample of their organisation. Previously the sample was restricted to 850 staff. The collection of data (i.e. the survey fieldwork) is conducted by a number of independent survey contractors (see documentation for individual survey information). The contractors are appointed directly by each NHS trust in England and are required to follow a set of detailed guidance notes supplied by the Advice Centre (see web site link above), which covers the methodology required for the survey. For example, this includes details on how to draw the random sample, the requirements for printing of questionnaires, letters to be sent to respondents, data entry and submission. At the end of the fieldwork, the data are then sent to the Advice Centre. From the data submitted, each participating NHS trust in England receives a benchmarked 'Feedback Report' from the Advice Centre, which also produces (on behalf of the Department of Health) a series of detailed spreadsheets which report details of each question covered in the survey for each participating trust in England, and also a 'Key Findings' summary report covering the survey findings at national level. Further information about the survey series and related publications are available from the Advice Centre web site (see link above). Main Topics:Topics covered in the survey include: work-life balance; appraisal; training, learning and development; team working; health and safety; errors and incidents witnessed; job characteristics and arrangements; management and supervision; perceptions of organisation worked for; harassment, bullying and violence; and respondents' demographic characteristics. See documentation for further details.

As Rufford Ford ( for example ) has now been closed due to safety concerns, I would like to request information regarding: 1) Workforce Policies on Water Crossings: Does Field Staff have an official policy or guidelines regarding the use of water crossings ( RAMS ) for your employees? If so, please provide copies of relevant policy documents, training materials, or risk assessments related to employees crossing fords or working in areas with water hazards. 2) Risk Assessments for crossing water in a vehicle. Were any formal risk assessments conducted specifically for water crossings. If available, please provide copies of such risk assessments, including those assessing potential hazards for field based staff. 3) Workforce Training & Safety Measures: Are your employees, including maintenance or emergency response teams, given specific training on assessing the safety of water crossings? If so, please provide details on what training is provided and any internal policies regarding vehicle use in flooded or hazardous conditions. Were any concerns raised about NHS Drivers staff or contractors potentially being at risk while using the crossings. The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 1 March 2025. We have handled your request under the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004.