NHS Digital’s Data Security Centre
Cyber Operational Readiness Support (CORS)
Your organisation recently received cyber operational readiness support from NHS Digital’s Data Security Centre (DSC) delivered by one of our trusted suppliers.
We would like to take this opportunity to evaluate your experience of the service to help us improve the delivery and support we give to health and care organisations. Your views on the benefits of the...More
NHS Digital currently procures and distributes Smartcards for NHS system users primarily for access to national systems. We are looking to procure a new Smartcard type in 21/22. We are seeking views from Smartcard users to determine the possible impact and opportunities that may arise as a result of this change.
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NHS Digital's PLICS data collections support the NHS England and NHS Improvement Costing Transformation programme.
We, NHS Digital (formally known as HSCIC) have received a mandatory request from Monitor (known as NHS Improvement ) under sections 255(1), and 256(2)(a) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, to continue to develop and operate systems for the collection and analysis of PLICS data from providers of acute,...More
The NHS complaints procedure is the statutorily based mechanism for dealing with complaints about NHS care and treatment. All NHS organisations in England are required to operate the procedure according to the April 2009 Complaints Regulations .
NHS Digital currently collects data on complaints regarding:
NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) – collected quarterly via the KO41a return from secondary care providers.
NHS primary care...More
Dear Colleagues
The Data Set Development team are currently looking to consult on proposed changes for inclusion within v5.0 of the MHSDS, to go live from April 2021.
We are looking to arrange a number of 1:1 consultations with service providers and system suppliers throughout April , to discuss the requirements in detail. This will help us ensure the solutions are fit for purpose and that the burden and benefits are evidenced.
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Guardianship under the Mental Health Act 1983 is a biennial collection that NHS Digital currently requires Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs) to complete.
The collection relates to those patients aged 16 or over subject to Guardianship under Section 7 or 37 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
It is a record level collection with minimal information collected and has a very low number of records. For this reason, a decision was taken that...More
Changes to the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Data Set, known as Version 2.0, came into effect on 1 st September 2020 following the publication of an Information Standards Notice (ISN) in September 2019.
Local data collection of Version 2.0 commenced 1 st September 2020. Data submissions to the Strategic Data Collection Service in the Cloud (SDCS Cloud) commenced 1 st October 2020.
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Mental Health Services Data Set
The MHSDS is a person level, output based, secondary uses data set which aims to deliver robust, comprehensive, nationally consistent and comparable person-based information for children, young people and adults who are in contact with mental health, learning disability and autism services located in England or located outside England but treating patients commissioned by an English CCG or NHS England specialised commissioner or an NHS-led Provider...More
In order to monitor success and effectiveness, providers are required through the NHS Standard Contract to submit relevant data to commissioners to support the commissioning process and financial billing. Currently for NHS England directly-commissioned services this data is specified in four data sets:
DCB2050 Aggregate Contract Monitoring
DCB3003 Patient Level Contract Monitoring
DCB3002 Devices Patient Level Contract Monitoring
DCB2212 Drugs Patient Level...More
These questions aim to gather information on learning needs for clinical safety and artificial intelligence (AI)/ Machine Learning (ML).
More and more AI/ML is being used in Healthcare. The safety team are looking to develop and faciltate a clinical safety course in partnershop with York University that looks at AI and ML.
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As part of our Continual Service Improvement plan, we would like to invite you to complete the following Customer Satisfaction Survey.
The results of this survey are reviewed on a daily basis. This gives Contact Centre staff the ability to identify any issues, ensuring the customer experience is improved, and also gives an opportunity to follow up with customers regarding specific feedback.
A monthly report based on the Customer Satisfaction data is also produced, which is reviewed...More
As part of our Continual Service Improvement plan, we would like to invite you to complete the following Customer Satisfaction Survey.
The results of this survey are reviewed on a daily basis. This gives Contact Centre staff the ability to identify any issues, ensuring the customer experience is improved, and also gives an opportunity to follow up with customers regarding specific feedback.
A monthly report based on the Customer Satisfaction data is also produced, which is reviewed...More
The Learning Disability & Autism programme at NHS England and NHS Improvement uses the Assuring Transformation (AT) data collection as the definitive source of information on inpatient numbers and activity.
In January 2019 the NHS published its Long Term Plan for the NHS , setting out what would be delivered for patients over the next 5-10 years and the improvements that can be expected in services. The Long Term Plan included a number of new commitments around the care of...More
The Caldicott Committee’s Report on the Review of Patient-Identifiable Information published in 1997 recommended six good practice principles to be applied to the use of confidential information in the NHS. It also recommended that a senior person, preferably a health professional, should be nominated in each health organisation to act as a guardian, responsible for safeguarding the confidentiality of patient information.
The principles became known as the Caldicott Principles and...More
NHS Digital's PLICS data collections support the NHS Improvement Costing Transformation programme.
We, NHS Digital (formally known as HSCIC) have received a mandatory request from Monitor (known as NHS Improvement ) under sections 255(1), 256(1)(a) and 256(2)(a) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, to establish and operate a system for the collection and analysis of PLICS data from Ambulance, Mental Health and IAPT providers...More
NHS Digital's PLICS data collections support the NHS Improvement Costing Transformation programme.
We, NHS Digital (formally known as HSCIC) have received a mandatory request from Monitor (known as NHS Improvement ) under sections 255(1), 256(1)(a) and 256(2)(a) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, to establish and operate a system for the collection and analysis of PLICS data from Ambulance, Mental Health and IAPT providers for Financial...More
NHS Digital is working with NHS England & NHS Improvement (hereafter referred to as NHSE & NHSI) to develop a robust evidence base on which to help shape the future of the Physical Health Checks for people with Severe Mental Illness (SMI). Currently aggregate data is captured manually via Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and there is insufficient granularity to allow informed decision making.
Data for this evidence base will be extracted at a patient level via the General Practice...More
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Background
The Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) is the national data set for Urgent and Emergency Care.
It was developed in 2017 to collect national data to help better understand how and why people attend emergency care departments.
NHS England & Improvement are committed to improving the coverage, timeliness and quality of ECDS with a view to it...More
30 March 2020: Update: Closing date extended to 22 May 2020
Historically, private healthcare providers in the UK have been excluded from the majority of national quality and safety reporting systems. This has resulted in the measurement of private care being largely invisible to the public and not comparable with NHS hospitals due to the absence of a common set of data standards.
Set against the backdrop of increasing overlap between private and NHS healthcare...More
Following the negotiation of new arrangements for Extended Security Updates (ESUs) for Windows 2008 and SQL 2008 Servers, it is essential that local NHS organisations have clear plans in place to manage the cybersecurity risks associated with these legacy products.
This very short survey therefore asks you to confirm:
1. That your organisation has a clear plan in place to address this if it has not already done so.
2. Confirm your status with implementing that plan.
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This survey is to get an understanding on how staff on the 6th floor are feeling.
The data will be kept confidential and only senior leaders will see any comments made in the survey.
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This survey is to get an understanding on how staff are feeling.
The data will be kept confidential and only senior leaders will see any comments made in the survey.
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Simulated Phishing Campaign Request Form
By choosing to use the Simulated Phishing Tool service you agree that DHSC, CQC, NHS Improvements and NHS England are updated on the statistics to gain an overall view of awareness across the health and social care environment.
Note: You will be asked to provide some key information in this form, please have it ready before proceeding.
We will need you to:
upload a .csv file ...More
As part of the 1 Day Benefits Training, the GDE Benefits team would like you to complete the following worksheet to support your learning along with the content and discussions on the day.
This short worksheet should take five to ten minutes to complete.
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