Unofficial. This site is an experimental reformatting of data published by NHS England. It is not endorsed by NHS England. Always check the official Data Uses Register before relying on anything here.

Who has access to data held by NHS England, and what for?

Every month NHS England publishes the Data Uses Register: a spreadsheet of the agreements under which organisations outside NHS England may use data it holds. This site turns that spreadsheet into pages you can read, search, link to and cite.

982data sharing agreements in term, of 1,950 listed
488organisations
211datasets covered
104,451files released externally by DARS

Browse agreements

All 1,950 agreements, each on one page with its full purpose, expected outputs, benefits, datasets and renewal history.

By organisation

See every agreement a single university, council, trust or company holds, in one place.

By dataset

Start from a dataset — Hospital Episode Statistics, civil registration deaths, GP data — and see which organisations' agreements name it.

What changed this month

36 added and 0 amended since the August 2026 edition.

Get the data

The register's own workbook, and this site's archive of every edition, for your own analysis.

How this works

What the register does and does not cover, how this site transforms it, and the caveats that matter.

Who holds agreements

The 15 organisations with the most agreements as applicant.

Top organisations by number of agreements
OrganisationAgreements
University of Oxford114
University College London (UCL)106
Imperial College London42
University of Bristol41
King's College London39
University of Leeds39
Queen Mary University of London28
University of Birmingham28
University of Cambridge28
The University of Manchester27
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board26
NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board26
NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board25
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine24
NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board23