Hospital Episode Statistics
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 NHS Digital’s headquarters in Leeds. |
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| non-departmental public body overview | |
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| Formed | 1 April 2013 |
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| Jurisdiction | England |
| Headquarters | Leeds |
| Motto | Information and technology for better health and care |
| Employees | 2500 |
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| Parent department | Department of Health |
| Website | digital |
NHS Digital is the trading name of the Health and Social Care Information Centre, which is the national provider of information, data and IT systems for commissioners, analysts and clinicians in health and social care in England, particularly those involved with the National Health Service (England).
Its work includes managing digital projects such as the NHS Spine, E-Referral service, NHS.UK and NHS Mail. It makes sure these and other national systems meet contractual, clinical safety and information standards. It also provides a range of specialist data services.
The organisation is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health, and was re-branded as NHS Digital on 1 August 2016.
NHS Digital has taken on the roles of a number of predecessor bodies including the NHS Information Centre, NHS Connecting for Health, and parts of NHS Direct. The organisation produces more than 260 official and national statistical publications. This includes national comparative data for secondary uses, developed from the long-running Hospital Episode Statistics which can help local decision makers to improve the quality and efficiency of frontline care.
The organisation was created as a special health authority on 1 April 2005 by a merger of parts of the Department of Health, parts of the NHS Information Authority, and the Prescribing Support Unit.
Following the Health and Social Care Act 2012, the HSCIC changed from a special health authority to an Executive Non-Departmental Public Body (ENDPB) on 1 April 2013. Effective at this time, HSCIC took over parts of the troubled NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) from the agency NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) which ceased to exist. It also runs the Health Survey for England (HSE).
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