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DSfC - NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG - IV RS Comm

NHS West Yorkshire ICB · Sub ICB Location

Listed under NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board.

Expired The latest version ended on 16 December 2022. The September 2026 register still lists the agreement, but its term has passed.

Reference
DARS-NIC-90661-W2S5Q
Latest version
v3.3
Term of latest version
17 December 2019 to 16 December 2022
Start date
Before 6 April 2018
Data controller
Sole Data Controller
Commercial purposes
No
Sublicensing
No
Files released to date
0

Why the data was released

Objective for processing

INVOICE VALIDATION

Invoice validation is part of a process by which providers of care or services get paid for the work they do.

Invoices are submitted to the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) so the CCG is are able to ensure that the activity claimed for each patient is their responsibility. This is done by processing and analysing Secondary User Services (SUS+) data, which is received into a secure Controlled Environment for Finance (CEfF). The SUS+ data is identifiable at the level of NHS number. The NHS number is only used to confirm the accuracy of backing-data sets (data from providers) and will not be used further.

Invoice Validation will be conducted by North of England CSU

The CCG are advised by North of England CSU whether payment for invoices can be made or not.

RISK STRATIFICATION

Risk stratification is a tool for identifying and predicting which patients are at high risk (of health deterioration and using multiple services) or are likely to be at high risk and prioritising the management of their care in order to prevent worse outcomes.

To conduct risk stratification Secondary User Services (SUS+) data, identifiable at the level of NHS number is linked with Primary Care data (from GPs) and an algorithm is applied to produce risk scores. Risk Stratification provides focus for future demands by enabling commissioners to prepare plans for both individual and groups of vulnerable patients. Commissioners can then prepare plans for patients who may require high levels of care. Risk Stratification also enables General Practitioners (GPs) to better target intervention in Primary Care.

Risk Stratification will be conducted by North of England CSU

Commissioning

To use pseudonymised data to provide intelligence to support the commissioning of health services. The data (containing both clinical and financial information) is analysed so that health care provision can be planned to support the needs of the population within the CCG area.

The CCGs commission services from a range of providers covering a wide array of services. Each of the data flow categories requested supports the commissioned activity of one or more providers.

The following pseudonymised datasets are required to provide intelligence to support commissioning of health services:

- Secondary Uses Service (SUS+)

- Local Provider Flows

o Acute

o Ambulance

o Community

o Demand for Service

o Diagnostic Service

o Emergency Care

o Experience, Quality and Outcomes

o Mental Health

o Other Not Elsewhere Classified

o Population Data

o Primary Care Services

o Public Health Screening

- Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS)

- Mental Health Learning Disability Data Set (MHLDDS)

- Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS)

- Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS)

- Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT)

- Child and Young People Health Service (CYPHS)

- Diagnostic Imaging Data Set (DIDS)

- Community Services Data Set (CSDS)

- National Cancer Waiting Times (NCWT)

- Civil Registries Data (CRD) (Births)

- Civil Registries Data (CRD) (Deaths)

- National Diabetes Audit (NDA)

- Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)

The pseudonymised data is required to for the following purposes:

 Population health management:

• Understanding the interdependency of care services

• Targeting care more effectively

• Using value as the redesign principle

 Data Quality and Validation – allowing data quality checks on the submitted data

 Thoroughly investigating the needs of the population, to ensure the right services are available for individuals when and where they need them

 Understanding cohorts of residents who are at risk of becoming users of some of the more expensive services, to better understand and manage those needs

 Monitoring population health and care interactions to understand where people may slip through the net, or where the provision of care may be being duplicated

 Modelling activity across all data sets to understand how services interact with each other, and to understand how changes in one service may affect flows through another

 Service redesign

 Health Needs Assessment – identification of underlying disease prevalence within the local population

 Patient stratification and predictive modelling - to identify specific patients at risk of requiring hospital admission and other avoidable factors such as risk of falls, computed using algorithms executed against linked de-identified data, and identification of future service delivery models

The pseudonymised data is required to ensure that analysis of health care provision can be completed to support the needs of the health profile of the population within the CCG area based on the full analysis of multiple pseudonymised datasets.

Processing for commissioning will be conducted by North of England CSU, eMBED, The Health Informatics Service and Pi Benchmark

Processing activities

PROCESSING CONDITIONS:

Data must only be used for the purposes stipulated within this Data Sharing Agreement. Any additional disclosure / publication will require further approval from NHS Digital.

Data Processors must only act upon specific instructions from the Data Controller.

Data can only be stored at the addresses listed under storage addresses.

All access to data is managed under Role-Based Access Controls. Users can only access data authorised by their role and the tasks that they are required to undertake.

Patient level data will not be linked other than as specifically detailed within this Data Sharing Agreement. Data released will only be shared with those parties listed and will only be used for the purposes laid out in the application/agreement.

NHS Digital reminds all organisations party to this agreement of the need to comply with the Data Sharing Framework Contract requirements, including those regarding the use (and purposes of that use) by “Personnel” (as defined within the Data Sharing Framework Contract ie: employees, agents and contractors of the Data Recipient who may have access to that data)

The DSCRO (part of NHS Digital) will apply National Opt-outs before any identifiable data leaves the DSCRO only for the purpose of Risk Stratification.

CCGs should work with general practices within their CCG to help them fulfil data controller responsibilities regarding flow of identifiable data into risk stratification tools.

(RS) The only identifier available in the data set is the NHS numbers. Any further identification of the patients will only be completed by the patient’s clinician on their own systems for the purpose of direct care with a legitimate relationship.

ONWARD SHARING:

Patient level data will not be shared outside of the CCG unless it is for the purpose of Direct Care, where it may be shared only with those health professionals who have a legitimate relationship with the patient and a legitimate reason to access the data.

Aggregated reports only with small number suppression can be shared externally as set out within NHS Digital guidance applicable to each data set.

SEGREGATION:

Where the Data Processor and/or the Data Controller hold both identifiable and pseudonymised data, the data will be held separately so data cannot be linked.

Where the Data Processor and/or the Data Controller hold identifiable data with opt outs applied and identifiable data with opt outs not applied, the data will be held separately so data cannot be linked.

All access to data is auditable by NHS Digital.

Data for the purpose of Invoice Validation is kept within the CEfF, and only used by staff properly trained and authorised for the activity. Only CEfF staff are able to access data in the CEfF and only CEfF staff operate the invoice validation process within the CEfF. Data flows directly in to the CEfF from the DSCRO and from the providers – it does not flow through any other processors.

Data Minimisation in relation to the data sets listed within section 3 are listed below. This also includes the purpose on which they would be applied -

For the purpose of Commissioning:

• Patients who are normally registered and/or resident within the commissioner (including historical activity where the patient was previously registered or resident in another commissioner).

and/or

• Patients treated by a provider where the commissioner is the host/co-ordinating commissioner and/or has the primary responsibility for the provider services in the local health economy – this is only for commissioning and relates to both national and local flows.

and/or

• Activity identified by the provider and recorded as such within national systems (such as SUS+) as for the attention of the commissioner - this is only for commissioning and relates to both national and local flows.

For the purpose of Risk Stratification:

• Patients who are normally registered and/or resident within the commissioner (including historical activity where the patient was previously registered or resident in another commissioner

For the purpose of Invoice Validation:

• CCG of residence and/or registration.

Pulsant do not access data held under this agreement as they only supply the building. Therefore, any access to the data held under this agreement would be considered a breach of the agreement. This includes granting of access to the database[s] containing the data.

Invoice Validation

1. Identifiable SUS+ Data is obtained from the SUS+ Repository to the Data Services for Commissioners Regional Office (DSCRO).

2. The DSCRO pushes a one-way data flow of SUS+ data into the Controlled Environment for Finance (CEfF) in the North of England Commissioning Support Unit.

3. The CEfF also receive backing data from the provider.

4. North of England Commissioning Support Unit carry out the following processing activities within the CEfF for invoice validation purposes:

a. Validating that the Clinical Commissioning Group is responsible for payment for the care of the individual by using SUS+ and/or backing flow data.

b. Once the backing information is received, this will be checked against national NHS and local commissioning policies as well as being checked against system access and reports provided by NHS Digital to confirm the payments are:

i. In line with Payment by Results tariffs

ii. are in relation to a patient registered with a CCG GP or resident within the CCG area.

iii. The health care provided should be paid by the CCG in line with CCG guidance.

5. The CCG are notified that the invoice has been validated and can be paid. Any discrepancies or non-validated invoices are investigated and resolved between North of England Commissioning Support Unit CEfF team and the provider meaning that no identifiable data needs to be sent to the CCG. The CCG only receives notification to pay and manage reporting detailing the total quantum of invoices received pending, processed etc.

Risk Stratification

1. Identifiable SUS+ data is obtained from the SUS Repository to the Data Services for Commissioners Regional Office (DSCRO).

2. Data quality management and standardisation of data is completed by the DSCRO and the data identifiable at the level of NHS number is transferred securely to North of England Commissioning Support Unit, who hold the SUS+ data within the secure Data Centre on N3.

3. Identifiable GP Data is securely sent from the GP system to North of England Commissioning Support Unit.

4. SUS+ data is linked to GP data in the risk stratification tool by the data processor.

5. As part of the risk stratification processing activity, GPs have access to the risk stratification tool within the data processor, which highlights patients with whom the GP has a legitimate relationship and have been classed as at risk. The only identifier available to GPs is the NHS numbers of their own patients. Any further identification of the patients will be completed by the GP on their own systems.

6. Once North of England Commissioning Support Unit has completed the processing, the CCG can access the online system via a secure connection to access the data pseudonymised at patient level.

Commissioning

The Data Services for Commissioners Regional Office (DSCRO) obtains the following data sets:

1. SUS+

2. Local Provider Flows (received directly from providers)

a. Acute

b. Ambulance

c. Community

d. Demand for Service

e. Diagnostic Service

f. Emergency Care

g. Experience, Quality and Outcomes

h. Mental Health

i. Other Not Elsewhere Classified

j. Population Data

k. Primary Care Services

l. Public Health Screening

3. Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS)

4. Mental Health Learning Disability Data Set (MHLDDS)

5. Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS)

6. Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS)

7. Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT)

8. Child and Young People Health Service (CYPHS)

9. Diagnostic Imaging Data Set (DIDS)

10. Community Services Data Set (CSDS)

11. National Cancer Waiting Times (NCWT)

12. Civil Registries Data (CRD) (Births)

13. Civil Registries Data (CRD) (Deaths)

14. National Diabetes Audit (NDA)

15. Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)

Data quality management and pseudonymisation is completed within the DSCRO and is then disseminated as follows:

Data Processor 1 – North of England Commissioning Support Unit

1. Pseudonymised SUS+, Local Provider data, Mental Health data (MHSDS, MHMDS, MHLDDS), Maternity data (MSDS), Improving Access to Psychological Therapies data (IAPT), Child and Young People’s Health data (CYPHS), Diagnostic Imaging data (DIDS) , National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring Data Set (CWT), Civil Registries Data (CRD) (Births and Deaths), National Diabetes Audit (NDA) and Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) only is securely transferred from the DSCRO to North of England Commissioning Support Unit.

2. North of England Commissioning Support Unit add derived fields, link data and provide analysis to:

a. See patient journeys for pathways or service design, re-design and de-commissioning.

b. Check recorded activity against contracts or invoices and facilitate discussions with providers.

c. Undertake population health management

d. Undertake data quality and validation checks

e. Thoroughly investigate the needs of the population

f. Understand cohorts of residents who are at risk

g. Conduct Health Needs Assessments

3. Allowed linkage is between the data sets contained within point 1.

4. North of England Commissioning Support Unit then pass the processed, pseudonymised and linked data to the CCG.

5. Aggregation of required data for CCG management use will be completed by North of England Commissioning Support Unit or the CCG as instructed by the CCG.

6. Patient level data will not be shared outside of the CCG and will only be shared within the CCG on a need to know basis, as per the purposes stipulated within the Data Sharing Agreement. External aggregated reports only with small number suppression can be shared as set out within NHS Digital guidance applicable to each data set.

Data Processor 2 – Kier Business Services and Dr Foster Hosting eMBED Health Consortium.

1. Pseudonymised SUS+, Local Provider data, Mental Health data (MHSDS, MHMDS, MHLDDS), Maternity data (MSDS), Improving Access to Psychological Therapies data (IAPT), Child and Young People’s Health data (CYPHS), Diagnostic Imaging data (DIDS), National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring Data Set (CWT), Civil Registries Data (CRD) (Births and Deaths), National Diabetes Audit (NDA) and Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) only is securely transferred from the DSCRO to North of England Commissioning Support Unit.

2. North of England Commissioning Support Unit add derived fields and pass the processed, pseudonymised data to the eMBED Health Consortium (Kier) and the CCG

3. eMBED Health Consortium (Kier) provide analysis to:

a. See patient journeys for pathways or service design, re-design and de-commissioning.

b. Check recorded activity against contracts or invoices and facilitate discussions with providers.

c. Undertake population health management

d. Undertake data quality and validation checks

e. Thoroughly investigate the needs of the population

f. Understand cohorts of residents who are at risk

g. Conduct Health Needs Assessments

4. eMBED Health Consortium (Kier) then pass the processed, pseudonymised and linked data to eMBED Health Consortium (Dr Foster) for further Business Intelligence analysis.

5. eMBED Health Consortium (Dr Foster) then pass the processed, pseudonymised and linked data to the CCG.

6. Aggregation of required data for CCG management use will be completed by eMBED Health Consortium or the CCG as instructed by the CCG.

7. Patient level data will not be shared outside of the CCG and will only be shared within the CCG on a need to know basis, as per the purposes stipulated within the Data Sharing Agreement. External aggregated reports only with small number suppression can be shared as set out within NHS Digital guidance applicable to each data set.

8. The CCG securely transfer Pseudonymised data back to the provider to:

a) confirm how patients are reported in SUS, and how the commissioner can reliably group these patients into categories for points of delivery;

b) allow for granular data validation whereby a commissioner may query the SUS record, and need to pass it back to the provider for checking; and

c) to allow the provider to undertake further analysis of a cohort of their patients as requested and specified by the commissioner.

The data transferred to the provider is only that which relates directly to the data previously uploaded by that particular provider.

Data Processor 3 - The Health Informatics Service

1. Pseudonymised SUS+ only is securely transferred from the DSCRO to North of England Commissioning Support Unit.

2. North of England Commissioning Support Unit add derived fields and pass the processed, pseudonymised data to the Health Informatics Service

3. The Health Informatics Service apply business rules, pricing and create additional categorical fields.

4. The Health Informatics Service securely transfer the Pseudonymised data to eMBED to flow directly to the CCG.

5. Aggregation of required data for CCG management use will be completed by the Health Informatics Service, eMBED or the CCG as instructed by the CCG.

6. Patient level data will not be shared outside of the CCG and will only be shared within the CCG on a need to know basis, as per the purposes stipulated within the Data Sharing Agreement. External aggregated reports only with small number suppression can be shared.

Data Processor 4 - PI Limited

Data quality management and pseudonymisation is completed within the DSCRO. Pseudonymisation for this flow is done using the Nottingham Open Pseudonymisation Tool.

1. Pseudonymised SUS+ only is securely transferred from the DSCRO to PI Limited.

2. Social Care data is pseudonymised using University of Nottingham open pseudonymiser tool at Kirklees Council.

3. The pseudonymised Social Care Data is sent to PI Limited from Kirklees Council via secure FTP.

4. PI Limited (PI Care and Health) then link the data using the common pseudo link, which is undertaken within a controlled environment by a named member of staff, who then produce online reports using CareTrak data analysis tool to provide Greater Huddersfield CCG with a range of high level commissioning intelligence based on integrated pathways of care in Kirklees. Access to these reports is based on user access controls, as follows:

- Access to the commissioning intelligence at pseudonymised level is accessible by 2 named members of staff in the CCG (based on a super user access licence for CareTrak)

- Access to aggregate commissioning intelligence (anonymised) is available to up to 3 additional users across the CCG (standard user licence)

- External aggregated reports only with small number suppression can be shared.

The pseudonymisation key cannot be used to re-identify data as the tool does not allow for this to happen, it only allows for one way pseudonymisation.

Access to the CareTrak system, both on a super user and standard user approach is governed via respective organisation employee code of practice, data protection policies and information governance protocols. Additionally, super users conform to a specific information access agreement which mitigates the risk of how the pseudo data can be handled and used.

The Integrated Commissioning Executive for Kirklees (which includes the local authority and both NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG and NHS North Kirklees CCG) wanted to better appreciate the potential and impact of how Better Care Fund monies were being utilised, and whether there were more effective ways to analyse or target the work.

PI Care and Health were selected for this work based on their existing work in this field, their clarity in defining the detail of what could be done and how, their engagement and attitude, ability to deliver and price.

Expected output

INVOICE VALIDATION

1. The Controlled Environment for Finance (CEfF) will enable the CCG to challenge invoices and raise discrepancies and disputes.

2. Outputs from the CEfF will enable accurate production of budget reports, which will:

a. Assist in addressing poor quality data issues

b. Assist in business intelligence

3. Validation of invoices for non-contracted events where a service delivered to a patient by a provider that does not have a written contract with the patient’s responsible commissioner, but does have a written contract with another NHS commissioner/s.

4. Budget control of the CCG.

RISK STRATIFICATION

1. As part of the risk stratification processing activity detailed above, GPs have access to the risk stratification tool which highlights patients for whom the GP is responsible and have been classed as at risk. The only identifier available to GPs is the NHS numbers of their own patients. Any further identification of the patients will be completed by the GP on their own systems.

2. GP Practices will be able to view the risk scores for individual patients with the ability to display the underlying SUS+ data for the individual patients when it is required for direct care purposes by someone who has a legitimate relationship with the patient.

CCGs will be able to:

3. Target specific vulnerable patient groups and enable clinicians with the duty of care for the patient to offer appropriate interventions.

4. Reduce hospital readmissions and targeting clinical interventions to high risk patients.

5. Identify patients at risk of deterioration and providing effective care.

6. Reduce in the difference in the quality of care between those with the best and worst outcomes.

7. Re-design care to reduce admissions.

8. Set up capitated budgets – budgets based on care provided to the specific population.

9. Identify health determinants of risk of admission to hospital, or other adverse care outcomes.

10. Monitor vulnerable groups of patients including but not limited to frailty, COPD, Diabetes, elderly.

11. Health needs assessments – identifying numbers of patients with specific health conditions or combination of conditions.

12. Classify vulnerable groups based on: disease profiles; conditions currently being treated; current service use; pharmacy use and risk of future overall cost.

13. Production of Theographs – a visual timeline of a patients encounters with hospital providers.

14. Analyse based on specific diseases

In addition:

- The risk stratification tool will provide aggregate reporting of number and percentage of population found to be at risk.

- Record level output (pseudonymised) will be available for commissioners (of the CCG), pseudonymised at patient level. Onward sharing of this data is not permitted.

COMMISSIONING

1. Commissioner reporting:

a. Summary by provider view - plan & actuals year to date (YTD).

b. Summary by Patient Outcome Data (POD) view - plan & actuals YTD.

c. Summary by provider view - activity & finance variance by POD.

d. Planned care by provider view - activity & finance plan & actuals YTD.

e. Planned care by POD view - activity plan & actuals YTD.

f. Provider reporting.

g. Statutory returns.

h. Statutory returns - monthly activity return.

i. Statutory returns - quarterly activity return.

j. Delayed discharges.

k. Quality & performance referral to treatment reporting.

2. Readmissions analysis.

3. Production of aggregate reports for CCG Business Intelligence.

4. Production of project / programme level dashboards.

5. Monitoring of acute / community / mental health quality matrix.

6. Clinical coding reviews / audits.

7. Budget reporting down to individual GP Practice level.

8. GP Practice level dashboard reports include high flyers.

9. Comparators of CCG performance with similar CCGs as set out by a specific range of care quality and performance measures detailed activity and cost reports

10. Data Quality and Validation measures allowing data quality checks on the submitted data

11. Contract Management and Modelling

12. Patient Stratification, such as:

o Patients at highest risk of admission

o Most expensive patients (top 15%)

o Frail and elderly

o Patients that are currently in hospital

o Patients with most referrals to secondary care

o Patients with most emergency activity

o Patients with most expensive prescriptions

o Patients recently moving from one care setting to another

i. Discharged from hospital

ii. Discharged from community

13. Validation for payment approval, ability to validate that claims are not being made after an individual has died, like Oxygen services.

14. Validation of programs implemented to improve patient pathway e.g. High users unable to validate if the process to help patients find the best support are working or did the patient die.

15. Clinical - understand reasons why patients are dying, what additional support services can be put in to support.

16. Understanding where patient are dying e.g. are patients dying at hospitals due to hospices closing due to Local authorities withdrawing support, or is there a problem at a particular trust.

17. Removal of patients from Risk Stratification reports.

18. Re births provide a one stop shop of information, Births are recorded in multiple sources covering hospital and home births, a chance to overlook activity.

Expected measurable benefits

INVOICE VALIDATION

The invoice validation process supports the ongoing delivery of patient care across the NHS and the CCG region by:

1. Ensuring that activity is fully financially validated.

2. Ensuring that service providers are accurately paid for the patients treatment.

3. Enabling services to be planned, commissioned, managed, and subjected to financial control.

4. Enabling commissioners to confirm that they are paying appropriately for treatment of patients for whom they are responsible.

5. Fulfilling commissioners duties to fiscal probity and scrutiny.

6. Ensuring full financial accountability for relevant organisations.

7. Ensuring robust commissioning and performance management.

8. Ensuring commissioning objectives do not compromise patient confidentiality.

9. Ensuring the avoidance of misappropriation of public funds.

RISK STRATIFICATION

Risk stratification promotes improved case management in primary care and will lead to the following benefits being realised:

1. Improved planning by better understanding patient flows through the healthcare system, thus allowing commissioners to design appropriate pathways to improve patient flow and allowing commissioners to identify priorities and identify plans to address these.

2. Improved quality of services through reduced emergency readmissions, especially avoidable emergency admissions. This is achieved through mapping of frequent users of emergency services thus allowing early intervention.

3. Improved access to services by identifying which services may be in demand but have poor access, and from this identify areas where improvement is required.

4. Supports the commissioner to meets its requirement to reduce premature mortality in line with the CCG Outcome Framework by allowing for more targeted intervention in primary care.

5. Better understanding of local population characteristics through analysis of their health and

6. healthcare outcomes

All of the above lead to improved patient experience through more effective commissioning of services.

COMMISSIONING

1. Supporting Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) to review demand management, integrated care and pathways.

a. Analysis to support full business cases.

b. Develop business models.

c. Monitor In year projects.

2. Supporting Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) for specific disease types.

3. Health economic modelling using:

a. Analysis on provider performance against 18 weeks wait targets.

b. Learning from and predicting likely patient pathways for certain conditions, in order to influence early interventions and other treatments for patients.

c. Analysis of outcome measures for differential treatments, accounting for the full patient pathway.

d. Analysis to understand emergency care and linking A&E and Emergency Urgent Care Flows (EUCC).

4. Commissioning cycle support for grouping and re-costing previous activity.

5. Enables monitoring of:

a. CCG outcome indicators.

b. Financial and Non-financial validation of activity.

c. Successful delivery of integrated care within the CCG.

d. Checking frequent or multiple attendances to improve early intervention and avoid admissions.

e. Case management.

f. Care service planning.

g. Commissioning and performance management.

h. List size verification by GP practices.

i. Understanding the care of patients in nursing homes.

6. Feedback to NHS service providers on data quality at an aggregate and individual record level – only on data initially provided by the service providers.

7. Improved planning by better understanding patient flows through the healthcare system, thus allowing commissioners to design appropriate pathways to improve patient flow and allowing commissioners to identify priorities and identify plans to address these.

8. Improved quality of services through reduced emergency readmissions, especially avoidable emergency admissions. This is achieved through mapping of frequent users of emergency services and early intervention of appropriate care.

9. Improved access to services by identifying which services may be in demand but have poor access, and from this identify areas where improvement is required.

10. Potentially reduced premature mortality by more targeted intervention in primary care, which supports the commissioner to meets its requirement to reduce premature mortality in line with the CCG Outcome Framework.

11. Better understanding of the health of and the variations in health outcomes within the population to help understand local population characteristics.

12. Better understanding of contract requirements, contract execution, and required services for management of existing contracts, and to assist with identification and planning of future contracts

13. Insights into patient outcomes, and identification of the possible efficacy of outcomes-based contracting opportunities.

14. Providing greater understanding of the underlying courses and look to commission improved supportive networks, this would be ongoing work which would be continually assessed.

15. Insight to understand the numerous factors that play a role in the outcome for both datasets. The linkage will allow the reporting both prior to, during and after the activity, to provide greater assurance on predictive outcomes and delivery of best practice.

16. Provision of indicators of health problems, and patterns of risk within the commissioning region.

17. Support of benchmarking for evaluating progress in future years.

Benefits reported so far

Not stated in the register.

Datasets on the latest version

Legal basis for provision: Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(b)(ii); Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(7); National Health Service Act 2006 - s251 - 'Control of patient information'.

Datasets approved under DARS-NIC-90661-W2S5Q-v3.3
DatasetType of dataSensitivity FrequencyConfidential data
Acute-Local Provider Flows Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Ambulance-Local Provider Flows Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Children and Young People Health Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Civil Registration - Births Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Civil Registrations of Death Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Community Services Data Set (CSDS) Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Community-Local Provider Flows Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Demand for Service-Local Provider Flows Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Diagnostic Imaging Data Set (DID) Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Diagnostic Services-Local Provider Flows Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Emergency Care-Local Provider Flows Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Experience, Quality and Outcomes-Local Provider Flows Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) v1.5 Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Maternity Services Data Set Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Data Set (MHLDDS) Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS) Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS) Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Mental Health-Local Provider Flows Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring DataSet (NCWTMDS) Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
National Diabetes Audit Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Other Not Elsewhere Classified (NEC)-Local Provider Flows Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Population Data-Local Provider Flows Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Primary Care Services-Local Provider Flows Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
Public Health and Screening Services-Local Provider Flows Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
SUS for Commissioners Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006
SUS for Commissioners Identifiable Sensitive Frequent Adhoc Flow Section 251 NHS Act 2006

Files released

Files released counts only files released externally by DARS. Access granted in NHS England's own systems, such as its Secure Data Environment, is not included.

No files recorded as released under this agreement.

Version history

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DARS-NIC-90661-W2S5Q-v3.3 17 December 2019 to 16 December 2022
Title
DSfC - NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG - IV RS Comm
Commercial
No
Sublicensing
No
Datasets
27
Files released
0

Datasets: Acute-Local Provider Flows; Ambulance-Local Provider Flows; Children and Young People Health; Civil Registration - Births; Civil Registrations of Death; Community Services Data Set (CSDS); Community-Local Provider Flows; Demand for Service-Local Provider Flows; Diagnostic Imaging Data Set (DID); Diagnostic Services-Local Provider Flows; Emergency Care-Local Provider Flows; Experience, Quality and Outcomes-Local Provider Flows; Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) v1.5; Maternity Services Data Set; Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Data Set (MHLDDS); Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS); Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS); Mental Health-Local Provider Flows; National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring DataSet (NCWTMDS); National Diabetes Audit; Other Not Elsewhere Classified (NEC)-Local Provider Flows; Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs); Population Data-Local Provider Flows; Primary Care Services-Local Provider Flows; Public Health and Screening Services-Local Provider Flows; SUS for Commissioners; SUS for Commissioners

What changed from DARS-NIC-90661-W2S5Q-v2.2

Text removed is struck through; text added is underlined. Unchanged paragraphs are summarised rather than repeated.

Fields changed from DARS-NIC-90661-W2S5Q-v2.2
FieldWasBecame
Start date2019-09-192019-12-17
End date2022-09-182022-12-16
SUS for Commissioners: legal basisHealth and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(b)(ii); Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(7)Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(b)(ii); Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(7); National Health Service Act 2006 - s251 - 'Control of patient information'.

Unchanged: Objective for processing, Processing activities, Expected output, Expected measurable benefits.

DARS-NIC-90661-W2S5Q-v2.2 19 September 2019 to 18 September 2022
Title
DSfC - NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG - IV RS Comm
Commercial
No
Sublicensing
No
Datasets
27
Files released
0

Datasets: Acute-Local Provider Flows; Ambulance-Local Provider Flows; Children and Young People Health; Civil Registration - Births; Civil Registrations of Death; Community Services Data Set (CSDS); Community-Local Provider Flows; Demand for Service-Local Provider Flows; Diagnostic Imaging Data Set (DID); Diagnostic Services-Local Provider Flows; Emergency Care-Local Provider Flows; Experience, Quality and Outcomes-Local Provider Flows; Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) v1.5; Maternity Services Data Set; Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Data Set (MHLDDS); Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS); Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS); Mental Health-Local Provider Flows; National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring DataSet (NCWTMDS); National Diabetes Audit; Other Not Elsewhere Classified (NEC)-Local Provider Flows; Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs); Population Data-Local Provider Flows; Primary Care Services-Local Provider Flows; Public Health and Screening Services-Local Provider Flows; SUS for Commissioners; SUS for Commissioners

What changed from DARS-NIC-90661-W2S5Q-v1.6

Text removed is struck through; text added is underlined. Unchanged paragraphs are summarised rather than repeated.

Fields changed from DARS-NIC-90661-W2S5Q-v1.6
FieldWasBecame
Start date2018-04-062019-09-19
End date2021-04-052022-09-18
SUS for Commissioners: legal basisHealth and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(b)(ii); Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(7); National Health Service Act 2006 - s251 - 'Control of patient information'.Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(b)(ii); Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(7)

Datasets: + Civil Registration - Births; + Civil Registrations of Death; + National Diabetes Audit; + Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)

Objective for processing

[2 paragraphs unchanged] Invoices are submitted to the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) so they the CCG is are able to ensure that the activity claimed for each patient is [37 words unchanged] NHS number is only used to confirm the accuracy of backing-data sets (data from providers) and will not be used further. [3 paragraphs unchanged] Risk stratification is a tool for identifying and predicting which patients are at high risk (of health deterioration and using multiple services) or are likely to be at high risk and prioritising the management of their care in order to prevent worse outcomes. To conduct risk stratification Secondary User Services (SUS+) data, identifiable at the [23 words unchanged] provides focus for future demands by enabling commissioners to prepare plans for both individual and groups of vulnerable patients. Commissioners can then prepare plans for patients who may require high [5 words unchanged] also enables General Practitioners (GPs) to better target intervention in Primary Care. [28 paragraphs unchanged] - Civil Registries Data (CRD) (Births) - Civil Registries Data (CRD) (Deaths) - National Diabetes Audit (NDA) - Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) [15 paragraphs unchanged]

Processing activities

Data must only be used as stipulated within this Data Sharing Agreement. PROCESSING CONDITIONS: Data must only be used for the purposes stipulated within this Data Sharing Agreement. Any additional disclosure / publication will require further approval from NHS Digital. [2 paragraphs unchanged] The Data Controller and any Data Processor will only have access to records of patients of residence and registration within the CCG. All access to data is managed under Role-Based Access Controls. Users can only access data authorised by their role and the tasks that they are required to undertake. Patient level data will not be linked other than as specifically detailed within this Data Sharing Agreement. Data released will only be shared with those parties listed and will only be used for the purposes laid out in the application/agreement. NHS Digital reminds all organisations party to this agreement of the need to comply with the Data Sharing Framework Contract requirements, including those regarding the use (and purposes of that use) by “Personnel” (as defined within the Data Sharing Framework Contract ie: employees, agents and contractors of the Data Recipient who may have access to that data) The DSCRO (part of NHS Digital) will apply National Opt-outs before any identifiable data leaves the DSCRO only for the purpose of Risk Stratification. CCGs should work with general practices within their CCG to help them fulfil data controller responsibilities regarding flow of identifiable data into risk stratification tools. (RS) The only identifier available in the data set is the NHS numbers. Any further identification of the patients will only be completed by the patient’s clinician on their own systems for the purpose of direct care with a legitimate relationship. ONWARD SHARING: [1 paragraph unchanged] All access to data is managed under Roles-Based Access Controls. Aggregated reports only with small number suppression can be shared externally as set out within NHS Digital guidance applicable to each data set. No patient level data will be linked other than as specifically detailed within this agreement. Data will only be shared with those parties listed and will only be used for the purposes laid out in the application/agreement. The data to be released from NHS Digital will not be national data, but only that data relating to the specific locality and that data required by the applicant. SEGREGATION: NHS Digital reminds all organisations party to this agreement of the need to comply with the Data Sharing Framework Contract requirements, including those regarding the use (and purposes of that use) by “Personnel” (as defined within the Data Sharing Framework Contract ie: employees, agents and contractors of the Data Recipient who may have access to that data) The DSCRO (part of NHS Digital) will apply Type 2 objections before any identifiable data leaves the DSCRO only for the purpose of Risk Stratification. CCGs should work with general practices within their CCG to help them fulfil data controller responsibilities regarding flow of identifiable data into risk stratification tools. Segregation [1 paragraph unchanged] Where the Data Processor and/or the Data Controller hold identifiable data with opt outs applied and identifiable data with opt outs not applied, the data will be held separately so data cannot be linked. [13 paragraphs unchanged] The above relates to data requested only (Table 3B). Data currently held (Table 3A) will have the following Data Minimisation: Pulsant do not access data held under this agreement as they only supply the building. Therefore, any access to the data held under this agreement would be considered a breach of the agreement. This includes granting of access to the database[s] containing the data. • CCG of residence and/or registration. For clarity, any access by Pulsant, Yeadon Health Community Centre, Telecity, Telstra, Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and Calderdale Royal Hospital to data held under this agreement would be considered a breach of the agreement. This includes granting of access to the database[s] containing the data. [3 paragraphs unchanged] 3. North of England Commissioning Support Unit carry out the following processing activities within the CEfF for invoice validation purposes: 3. The CEfF also receive backing data from the provider. 4. North of England Commissioning Support Unit carry out the following processing activities within the CEfF for invoice validation purposes: [5 paragraphs unchanged] 4. 5. The CCG are notified that the invoice has been validated and can [43 words unchanged] manage reporting detailing the total quantum of invoices received pending, processed etc. [32 paragraphs unchanged] 12. Civil Registries Data (CRD) (Births) 13. Civil Registries Data (CRD) (Deaths) 14. National Diabetes Audit (NDA) 15. Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) [2 paragraphs unchanged] 1. Pseudonymised SUS+, Local Provider data, Mental Health data (MHSDS, MHMDS, MHLDDS), Maternity data (MSDS), Improving Access to Psychological Therapies data (IAPT), Child and Young People’s Health data (CYPHS) and (CYPHS), Diagnostic Imaging data (DIDS) , National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring Data Set (CWT), Civil Registries Data (CRD) (Births and Deaths), National Diabetes Audit (NDA) and Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) only is securely transferred from the DSCRO to North of England Commissioning Support Unit. [13 paragraphs unchanged] 1. Pseudonymised SUS+, Local Provider data, Mental Health data (MHSDS, MHMDS, MHLDDS), Maternity data (MSDS), Improving Access to Psychological Therapies data (IAPT), Child and Young People’s Health data (CYPHS) and (CYPHS), Diagnostic Imaging data (DIDS) (DIDS), National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring Data Set (CWT), Civil Registries Data (CRD) (Births and Deaths), National Diabetes Audit (NDA) and Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) only is securely transferred from the DSCRO to North of England Commissioning Support Unit. [38 paragraphs unchanged]

Expected output

[1 paragraph unchanged] 1. Addressing poor data quality issues 1. The Controlled Environment for Finance (CEfF) will enable the CCG to challenge invoices and raise discrepancies and disputes. 2. Production of reports for business intelligence 2. Outputs from the CEfF will enable accurate production of budget reports, which will: 3. Budget reporting a. Assist in addressing poor quality data issues 4. Validation of invoices for non-contracted events b. Assist in business intelligence 3. Validation of invoices for non-contracted events where a service delivered to a patient by a provider that does not have a written contract with the patient’s responsible commissioner, but does have a written contract with another NHS commissioner/s. 4. Budget control of the CCG. [2 paragraphs unchanged] 2. Output from the risk stratification tool will provide aggregate reporting of number and percentage of population found to be at risk. 2. GP Practices will be able to view the risk scores for individual patients with the ability to display the underlying SUS+ data for the individual patients when it is required for direct care purposes by someone who has a legitimate relationship with the patient. 3. Record level output will be available for commissioners (of the CCG), pseudonymised at patient level. CCGs will be able to: 4. GP Practices will be able to view the risk scores for individual patients with the ability to display the underlying SUS+ data for the individual patients when it is required for direct care purposes by someone who has a legitimate relationship with the patient. 3. Target specific vulnerable patient groups and enable clinicians with the duty of care for the patient to offer appropriate interventions. 5. The CCG will be able to target specific patient groups and enable clinicians with the duty of care for the patient to offer appropriate interventions. The CCG will also be able to: 4. Reduce hospital readmissions and targeting clinical interventions to high risk patients. o Stratify populations based on: disease profiles; conditions currently being treated; current service use; pharmacy use and risk of future overall cost 5. Identify patients at risk of deterioration and providing effective care. o Plan work for commissioning services and contracts 6. Reduce in the difference in the quality of care between those with the best and worst outcomes. o Set up capitated budgets 7. Re-design care to reduce admissions. o Identify health determinants of risk of admission to hospital, or other adverse care outcomes. 8. Set up capitated budgets – budgets based on care provided to the specific population. 9. Identify health determinants of risk of admission to hospital, or other adverse care outcomes. 10. Monitor vulnerable groups of patients including but not limited to frailty, COPD, Diabetes, elderly. 11. Health needs assessments – identifying numbers of patients with specific health conditions or combination of conditions. 12. Classify vulnerable groups based on: disease profiles; conditions currently being treated; current service use; pharmacy use and risk of future overall cost. 13. Production of Theographs – a visual timeline of a patients encounters with hospital providers. 14. Analyse based on specific diseases In addition: - The risk stratification tool will provide aggregate reporting of number and percentage of population found to be at risk. - Record level output (pseudonymised) will be available for commissioners (of the CCG), pseudonymised at patient level. Onward sharing of this data is not permitted. [34 paragraphs unchanged] The Health Informatics Service 13. Validation for payment approval, ability to validate that claims are not being made after an individual has died, like Oxygen services. THIS provides a range of data management functions and outputs as specified by the CCG. Outputs include the provision of pseudonymised data to allow it to be viewed and interrogated, as well as aggregate level reports. These outputs can take the form of data held in a secure data warehouse or files e.g. database, CSV, Excel files. 14. Validation of programs implemented to improve patient pathway e.g. High users unable to validate if the process to help patients find the best support are working or did the patient die. The warehousing of data uses a robust and tested platform, i.e. the warehouse (HPS database) has been developed over circa 20 years to reflect commissioner/CCG requirements and is in a THIS IT environment, so is secure. 15. Clinical - understand reasons why patients are dying, what additional support services can be put in to support. Utilising THIS data management also provides the following benefits: 16. Understanding where patient are dying e.g. are patients dying at hospitals due to hospices closing due to Local authorities withdrawing support, or is there a problem at a particular trust. • Utilising local knowledge and expertise on data flows that are specific to the CCG in particular data flowing from Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust 17. Removal of patients from Risk Stratification reports. • Making efficient use of existing processes that are well established and tailored to the CCG requirements 18. Re births provide a one stop shop of information, Births are recorded in multiple sources covering hospital and home births, a chance to overlook activity. • Providing the resource / capacity required to process data flows for the CCG The aggregate outputs fall into the following areas: • Studying variation and trends over time • Monitoring of healthcare contract activity plans • Performance monitoring • Quality monitoring The categories of outputs to the CCG includes: • Monitoring of hospital activity against planned levels where an established contract exists between a provider and a commissioner inclusive of: o Overall contract reporting of actual vs plan for activity and value at aggregate level o Reconciliation reports between local hospital data, and SUS records at aggregate/anonymised in context level. o Contract Data Quality reporting at anonymised in context record level. • “Deep dive” analysis of hospital activity at aggregate level. Specific examples of report outputs include: Commissioner Reporting - Summary by Provider View – Plan and Actuals Year to Date (YTD) - Summary by Patient Outcome Data (POD) view - Plan and Actuals YTD - Summary by Provider View – Activity and Finance Variance by POD - Planned Care by Provider View – Activity and Finance Variance by POD - Planned Care by POD View – Activity, Finance Plan and Actuals YTD - Provider Reporting - Readmissions analysis - Production of aggregate reports for CCGs Business Intelligence - Production of project / Programme level dashboards - Monitoring of acute / community services - Budget reporting

Expected measurable benefits

[1 paragraph unchanged] 1. Financial validation of activity The invoice validation process supports the ongoing delivery of patient care across the NHS and the CCG region by: 2. CCG Budget control 1. Ensuring that activity is fully financially validated. 3. Commissioning and performance management 2. Ensuring that service providers are accurately paid for the patients treatment. 4. Meeting commissioning objectives without compromising patient confidentiality 3. Enabling services to be planned, commissioned, managed, and subjected to financial control. 5. The avoidance of misappropriation of public funds to ensure the ongoing delivery of patient care 4. Enabling commissioners to confirm that they are paying appropriately for treatment of patients for whom they are responsible. Risk Stratification 5. Fulfilling commissioners duties to fiscal probity and scrutiny. Risk stratification promotes improved case management in primary care and will lead to the following benefits being realised: 6. Ensuring full financial accountability for relevant organisations. 1. Improved planning by better understanding patient flows through the healthcare system, thus allowing commissioners to design appropriate pathways to improve patient flow and allowing commissioners to identify priorities and identify plans to address these. 7. Ensuring robust commissioning and performance management. 2. Improved quality of services through reduced emergency readmissions, especially avoidable emergency admissions. This is achieved through mapping of frequent users of emergency services and early intervention of appropriate care. 8. Ensuring commissioning objectives do not compromise patient confidentiality. 3. Improved access to services by identifying which services may be in demand but have poor access, and from this identify areas where improvement is required. 9. Ensuring the avoidance of misappropriation of public funds. 4. Potentially reduced premature mortality by more targeted intervention in primary care, which supports the commissioner to meets its requirement to reduce premature mortality in line with the CCG Outcome Framework. 5. Better understanding of the health of and the variations in health outcomes within the population to help understand local population characteristics. All of the above lead to improved patient experience through more effective commissioning of services. Commissioning (Pseudonymised) – SUS and Local Flows 1. Supporting Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) to review demand management, integrated care and pathways. a. Analysis to support full business cases. b. Develop business models. c. Monitor In year projects. 2. Supporting Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) for specific disease types. 3. Health economic modelling using: a. Analysis on provider performance against 18 weeks wait targets. b. Learning from and predicting likely patient pathways for certain conditions, in order to influence early interventions and other treatments for patients. c. Analysis of outcome measures for differential treatments, accounting for the full patient pathway. d. Analysis to understand emergency care and linking A&E and Emergency Urgent Care Flows. 4. Commissioning cycle support for grouping and re-costing previous activity. 5. Enables monitoring of: a. CCG outcome indicators. b. Non-financial validation of activity. c. Successful delivery of integrated care within the CCG. d. Checking frequent or multiple attendances to improve early intervention and avoid admissions. e. Case management. f. Care service planning. g. Commissioning and performance management. h. List size verification by GP practices. i. Understanding the care of patients in nursing homes. j. Service Transformation Projects (STP) 6. Feedback to NHS service providers on data quality at an aggregate and individual record level – only on data initially provided by the service providers. Commissioning (Pseudonymised) – SUS and Local Flows Data Processor 4 PI Benchmark The Integrated Commissioning Executive for Kirklees (which includes the local authority and both NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG and NHS North Kirklees CCG) wanted to better appreciate the potential and impact of how Better Care Fund monies were being utilised, and whether there were more effective ways to analyse or target the work. PI Care and Health were selected for this work based on their existing work in this field, their clarity in defining the detail of what could be done and how, their engagement and attitude, ability to deliver and price. Commissioning (Pseudonymised) – Mental Health, Maternity, IAPT, CYPHS and DIDS 1. Supporting Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) to review demand Invoice Validation 1. Financial validation of activity 2. CCG Budget control 3. Commissioning and performance management 4. Meeting commissioning objectives without compromising patient confidentiality 5. The avoidance of misappropriation of public funds to ensure the ongoing delivery of patient care [6 paragraphs unchanged] 5. Better understanding of local population characteristics through analysis of their health and healthcare outcomes 6. healthcare outcomes [31 paragraphs unchanged] 14. Providing greater understanding of the underlying courses and look to commission improved supportive networks, this would be ongoing work which would be continually assessed. 15. Insight to understand the numerous factors that play a role in the outcome for both datasets. The linkage will allow the reporting both prior to, during and after the activity, to provide greater assurance on predictive outcomes and delivery of best practice. 16. Provision of indicators of health problems, and patterns of risk within the commissioning region. 17. Support of benchmarking for evaluating progress in future years.

Objective for processing

INVOICE VALIDATION

Invoice validation is part of a process by which providers of care or services get paid for the work they do.

Invoices are submitted to the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) so the CCG is are able to ensure that the activity claimed for each patient is their responsibility. This is done by processing and analysing Secondary User Services (SUS+) data, which is received into a secure Controlled Environment for Finance (CEfF). The SUS+ data is identifiable at the level of NHS number. The NHS number is only used to confirm the accuracy of backing-data sets (data from providers) and will not be used further.

Invoice Validation will be conducted by North of England CSU

The CCG are advised by North of England CSU whether payment for invoices can be made or not.

RISK STRATIFICATION

Risk stratification is a tool for identifying and predicting which patients are at high risk (of health deterioration and using multiple services) or are likely to be at high risk and prioritising the management of their care in order to prevent worse outcomes.

To conduct risk stratification Secondary User Services (SUS+) data, identifiable at the level of NHS number is linked with Primary Care data (from GPs) and an algorithm is applied to produce risk scores. Risk Stratification provides focus for future demands by enabling commissioners to prepare plans for both individual and groups of vulnerable patients. Commissioners can then prepare plans for patients who may require high levels of care. Risk Stratification also enables General Practitioners (GPs) to better target intervention in Primary Care.

Risk Stratification will be conducted by North of England CSU

Commissioning

To use pseudonymised data to provide intelligence to support the commissioning of health services. The data (containing both clinical and financial information) is analysed so that health care provision can be planned to support the needs of the population within the CCG area.

The CCGs commission services from a range of providers covering a wide array of services. Each of the data flow categories requested supports the commissioned activity of one or more providers.

The following pseudonymised datasets are required to provide intelligence to support commissioning of health services:

- Secondary Uses Service (SUS+)

- Local Provider Flows

o Acute

o Ambulance

o Community

o Demand for Service

o Diagnostic Service

o Emergency Care

o Experience, Quality and Outcomes

o Mental Health

o Other Not Elsewhere Classified

o Population Data

o Primary Care Services

o Public Health Screening

- Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS)

- Mental Health Learning Disability Data Set (MHLDDS)

- Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS)

- Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS)

- Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT)

- Child and Young People Health Service (CYPHS)

- Diagnostic Imaging Data Set (DIDS)

- Community Services Data Set (CSDS)

- National Cancer Waiting Times (NCWT)

- Civil Registries Data (CRD) (Births)

- Civil Registries Data (CRD) (Deaths)

- National Diabetes Audit (NDA)

- Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)

The pseudonymised data is required to for the following purposes:

 Population health management:

• Understanding the interdependency of care services

• Targeting care more effectively

• Using value as the redesign principle

 Data Quality and Validation – allowing data quality checks on the submitted data

 Thoroughly investigating the needs of the population, to ensure the right services are available for individuals when and where they need them

 Understanding cohorts of residents who are at risk of becoming users of some of the more expensive services, to better understand and manage those needs

 Monitoring population health and care interactions to understand where people may slip through the net, or where the provision of care may be being duplicated

 Modelling activity across all data sets to understand how services interact with each other, and to understand how changes in one service may affect flows through another

 Service redesign

 Health Needs Assessment – identification of underlying disease prevalence within the local population

 Patient stratification and predictive modelling - to identify specific patients at risk of requiring hospital admission and other avoidable factors such as risk of falls, computed using algorithms executed against linked de-identified data, and identification of future service delivery models

The pseudonymised data is required to ensure that analysis of health care provision can be completed to support the needs of the health profile of the population within the CCG area based on the full analysis of multiple pseudonymised datasets.

Processing for commissioning will be conducted by North of England CSU, eMBED, The Health Informatics Service and Pi Benchmark

Expected output

INVOICE VALIDATION

1. The Controlled Environment for Finance (CEfF) will enable the CCG to challenge invoices and raise discrepancies and disputes.

2. Outputs from the CEfF will enable accurate production of budget reports, which will:

a. Assist in addressing poor quality data issues

b. Assist in business intelligence

3. Validation of invoices for non-contracted events where a service delivered to a patient by a provider that does not have a written contract with the patient’s responsible commissioner, but does have a written contract with another NHS commissioner/s.

4. Budget control of the CCG.

RISK STRATIFICATION

1. As part of the risk stratification processing activity detailed above, GPs have access to the risk stratification tool which highlights patients for whom the GP is responsible and have been classed as at risk. The only identifier available to GPs is the NHS numbers of their own patients. Any further identification of the patients will be completed by the GP on their own systems.

2. GP Practices will be able to view the risk scores for individual patients with the ability to display the underlying SUS+ data for the individual patients when it is required for direct care purposes by someone who has a legitimate relationship with the patient.

CCGs will be able to:

3. Target specific vulnerable patient groups and enable clinicians with the duty of care for the patient to offer appropriate interventions.

4. Reduce hospital readmissions and targeting clinical interventions to high risk patients.

5. Identify patients at risk of deterioration and providing effective care.

6. Reduce in the difference in the quality of care between those with the best and worst outcomes.

7. Re-design care to reduce admissions.

8. Set up capitated budgets – budgets based on care provided to the specific population.

9. Identify health determinants of risk of admission to hospital, or other adverse care outcomes.

10. Monitor vulnerable groups of patients including but not limited to frailty, COPD, Diabetes, elderly.

11. Health needs assessments – identifying numbers of patients with specific health conditions or combination of conditions.

12. Classify vulnerable groups based on: disease profiles; conditions currently being treated; current service use; pharmacy use and risk of future overall cost.

13. Production of Theographs – a visual timeline of a patients encounters with hospital providers.

14. Analyse based on specific diseases

In addition:

- The risk stratification tool will provide aggregate reporting of number and percentage of population found to be at risk.

- Record level output (pseudonymised) will be available for commissioners (of the CCG), pseudonymised at patient level. Onward sharing of this data is not permitted.

COMMISSIONING

1. Commissioner reporting:

a. Summary by provider view - plan & actuals year to date (YTD).

b. Summary by Patient Outcome Data (POD) view - plan & actuals YTD.

c. Summary by provider view - activity & finance variance by POD.

d. Planned care by provider view - activity & finance plan & actuals YTD.

e. Planned care by POD view - activity plan & actuals YTD.

f. Provider reporting.

g. Statutory returns.

h. Statutory returns - monthly activity return.

i. Statutory returns - quarterly activity return.

j. Delayed discharges.

k. Quality & performance referral to treatment reporting.

2. Readmissions analysis.

3. Production of aggregate reports for CCG Business Intelligence.

4. Production of project / programme level dashboards.

5. Monitoring of acute / community / mental health quality matrix.

6. Clinical coding reviews / audits.

7. Budget reporting down to individual GP Practice level.

8. GP Practice level dashboard reports include high flyers.

9. Comparators of CCG performance with similar CCGs as set out by a specific range of care quality and performance measures detailed activity and cost reports

10. Data Quality and Validation measures allowing data quality checks on the submitted data

11. Contract Management and Modelling

12. Patient Stratification, such as:

o Patients at highest risk of admission

o Most expensive patients (top 15%)

o Frail and elderly

o Patients that are currently in hospital

o Patients with most referrals to secondary care

o Patients with most emergency activity

o Patients with most expensive prescriptions

o Patients recently moving from one care setting to another

i. Discharged from hospital

ii. Discharged from community

13. Validation for payment approval, ability to validate that claims are not being made after an individual has died, like Oxygen services.

14. Validation of programs implemented to improve patient pathway e.g. High users unable to validate if the process to help patients find the best support are working or did the patient die.

15. Clinical - understand reasons why patients are dying, what additional support services can be put in to support.

16. Understanding where patient are dying e.g. are patients dying at hospitals due to hospices closing due to Local authorities withdrawing support, or is there a problem at a particular trust.

17. Removal of patients from Risk Stratification reports.

18. Re births provide a one stop shop of information, Births are recorded in multiple sources covering hospital and home births, a chance to overlook activity.

DARS-NIC-90661-W2S5Q-v1.6 6 April 2018 to 5 April 2021
Title
DSfC - NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG - IV RS Comm
Commercial
No
Sublicensing
No
Datasets
23
Files released
0

Datasets: Acute-Local Provider Flows; Ambulance-Local Provider Flows; Children and Young People Health; Community Services Data Set (CSDS); Community-Local Provider Flows; Demand for Service-Local Provider Flows; Diagnostic Imaging Data Set (DID); Diagnostic Services-Local Provider Flows; Emergency Care-Local Provider Flows; Experience, Quality and Outcomes-Local Provider Flows; Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) v1.5; Maternity Services Data Set; Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Data Set (MHLDDS); Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS); Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS); Mental Health-Local Provider Flows; National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring DataSet (NCWTMDS); Other Not Elsewhere Classified (NEC)-Local Provider Flows; Population Data-Local Provider Flows; Primary Care Services-Local Provider Flows; Public Health and Screening Services-Local Provider Flows; SUS for Commissioners; SUS for Commissioners

Objective for processing

Invoice Validation

Invoice validation is part of a process by which providers of care or services get paid for the work they do.

Invoices are submitted to the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) so they are able to ensure that the activity claimed for each patient is their responsibility. This is done by processing and analysing Secondary User Services (SUS+) data, which is received into a secure Controlled Environment for Finance (CEfF). The SUS+ data is identifiable at the level of NHS number. The NHS number is only used to confirm the accuracy of backing-data sets and will not be used further.

Invoice Validation will be conducted by North of England CSU

The CCG are advised by North of England CSU whether payment for invoices can be made or not.

Risk Stratification

Risk stratification is a tool for identifying and predicting which patients are at high risk or are likely to be at high risk and prioritising the management of their care in order to prevent worse outcomes.

To conduct risk stratification Secondary User Services (SUS+) data, identifiable at the level of NHS number is linked with Primary Care data (from GPs) and an algorithm is applied to produce risk scores. Risk Stratification provides focus for future demands by enabling commissioners to prepare plans for patients. Commissioners can then prepare plans for patients who may require high levels of care. Risk Stratification also enables General Practitioners (GPs) to better target intervention in Primary Care.

Risk Stratification will be conducted by North of England CSU

Commissioning

To use pseudonymised data to provide intelligence to support the commissioning of health services. The data (containing both clinical and financial information) is analysed so that health care provision can be planned to support the needs of the population within the CCG area.

The CCGs commission services from a range of providers covering a wide array of services. Each of the data flow categories requested supports the commissioned activity of one or more providers.

The following pseudonymised datasets are required to provide intelligence to support commissioning of health services:

- Secondary Uses Service (SUS+)

- Local Provider Flows

o Acute

o Ambulance

o Community

o Demand for Service

o Diagnostic Service

o Emergency Care

o Experience, Quality and Outcomes

o Mental Health

o Other Not Elsewhere Classified

o Population Data

o Primary Care Services

o Public Health Screening

- Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS)

- Mental Health Learning Disability Data Set (MHLDDS)

- Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS)

- Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS)

- Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT)

- Child and Young People Health Service (CYPHS)

- Diagnostic Imaging Data Set (DIDS)

- Community Services Data Set (CSDS)

- National Cancer Waiting Times (NCWT)

The pseudonymised data is required to for the following purposes:

 Population health management:

• Understanding the interdependency of care services

• Targeting care more effectively

• Using value as the redesign principle

 Data Quality and Validation – allowing data quality checks on the submitted data

 Thoroughly investigating the needs of the population, to ensure the right services are available for individuals when and where they need them

 Understanding cohorts of residents who are at risk of becoming users of some of the more expensive services, to better understand and manage those needs

 Monitoring population health and care interactions to understand where people may slip through the net, or where the provision of care may be being duplicated

 Modelling activity across all data sets to understand how services interact with each other, and to understand how changes in one service may affect flows through another

 Service redesign

 Health Needs Assessment – identification of underlying disease prevalence within the local population

 Patient stratification and predictive modelling - to identify specific patients at risk of requiring hospital admission and other avoidable factors such as risk of falls, computed using algorithms executed against linked de-identified data, and identification of future service delivery models

The pseudonymised data is required to ensure that analysis of health care provision can be completed to support the needs of the health profile of the population within the CCG area based on the full analysis of multiple pseudonymised datasets.

Processing for commissioning will be conducted by North of England CSU, eMBED, The Health Informatics Service and Pi Benchmark

Expected output

Invoice Validation

1. Addressing poor data quality issues

2. Production of reports for business intelligence

3. Budget reporting

4. Validation of invoices for non-contracted events

Risk Stratification

1. As part of the risk stratification processing activity detailed above, GPs have access to the risk stratification tool which highlights patients for whom the GP is responsible and have been classed as at risk. The only identifier available to GPs is the NHS numbers of their own patients. Any further identification of the patients will be completed by the GP on their own systems.

2. Output from the risk stratification tool will provide aggregate reporting of number and percentage of population found to be at risk.

3. Record level output will be available for commissioners (of the CCG), pseudonymised at patient level.

4. GP Practices will be able to view the risk scores for individual patients with the ability to display the underlying SUS+ data for the individual patients when it is required for direct care purposes by someone who has a legitimate relationship with the patient.

5. The CCG will be able to target specific patient groups and enable clinicians with the duty of care for the patient to offer appropriate interventions. The CCG will also be able to:

o Stratify populations based on: disease profiles; conditions currently being treated; current service use; pharmacy use and risk of future overall cost

o Plan work for commissioning services and contracts

o Set up capitated budgets

o Identify health determinants of risk of admission to hospital, or other adverse care outcomes.

Commissioning

1. Commissioner reporting:

a. Summary by provider view - plan & actuals year to date (YTD).

b. Summary by Patient Outcome Data (POD) view - plan & actuals YTD.

c. Summary by provider view - activity & finance variance by POD.

d. Planned care by provider view - activity & finance plan & actuals YTD.

e. Planned care by POD view - activity plan & actuals YTD.

f. Provider reporting.

g. Statutory returns.

h. Statutory returns - monthly activity return.

i. Statutory returns - quarterly activity return.

j. Delayed discharges.

k. Quality & performance referral to treatment reporting.

2. Readmissions analysis.

3. Production of aggregate reports for CCG Business Intelligence.

4. Production of project / programme level dashboards.

5. Monitoring of acute / community / mental health quality matrix.

6. Clinical coding reviews / audits.

7. Budget reporting down to individual GP Practice level.

8. GP Practice level dashboard reports include high flyers.

9. Comparators of CCG performance with similar CCGs as set out by a specific range of care quality and performance measures detailed activity and cost reports

10. Data Quality and Validation measures allowing data quality checks on the submitted data

11. Contract Management and Modelling

12. Patient Stratification, such as:

o Patients at highest risk of admission

o Most expensive patients (top 15%)

o Frail and elderly

o Patients that are currently in hospital

o Patients with most referrals to secondary care

o Patients with most emergency activity

o Patients with most expensive prescriptions

o Patients recently moving from one care setting to another

i. Discharged from hospital

ii. Discharged from community

The Health Informatics Service

THIS provides a range of data management functions and outputs as specified by the CCG. Outputs include the provision of pseudonymised data to allow it to be viewed and interrogated, as well as aggregate level reports. These outputs can take the form of data held in a secure data warehouse or files e.g. database, CSV, Excel files.

The warehousing of data uses a robust and tested platform, i.e. the warehouse (HPS database) has been developed over circa 20 years to reflect commissioner/CCG requirements and is in a THIS IT environment, so is secure.

Utilising THIS data management also provides the following benefits:

• Utilising local knowledge and expertise on data flows that are specific to the CCG in particular data flowing from Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust

• Making efficient use of existing processes that are well established and tailored to the CCG requirements

• Providing the resource / capacity required to process data flows for the CCG

The aggregate outputs fall into the following areas:

• Studying variation and trends over time

• Monitoring of healthcare contract activity plans

• Performance monitoring

• Quality monitoring

The categories of outputs to the CCG includes:

• Monitoring of hospital activity against planned levels where an established contract exists between a provider and a commissioner inclusive of:

o Overall contract reporting of actual vs plan for activity and value at aggregate level

o Reconciliation reports between local hospital data, and SUS records at aggregate/anonymised in context level.

o Contract Data Quality reporting at anonymised in context record level.

• “Deep dive” analysis of hospital activity at aggregate level.

Specific examples of report outputs include:

Commissioner Reporting

- Summary by Provider View – Plan and Actuals Year to Date (YTD)

- Summary by Patient Outcome Data (POD) view - Plan and Actuals YTD

- Summary by Provider View – Activity and Finance Variance by POD

- Planned Care by Provider View – Activity and Finance Variance by POD

- Planned Care by POD View – Activity, Finance Plan and Actuals YTD

- Provider Reporting

- Readmissions analysis

- Production of aggregate reports for CCGs Business Intelligence

- Production of project / Programme level dashboards

- Monitoring of acute / community services

- Budget reporting

Register history

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NHS England (2026) Data Uses Register, September 2026 edition, agreement DARS-NIC-90661-W2S5Q, “DSfC - NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG - IV RS Comm”. Read via NHS Data Access Explorer (unofficial), https://healthdatauses.uk/agreements/dars-nic-90661-w2s5q/ (accessed [date]).

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Source: datausesregister_september2026.xlsx, September 2026 edition of the NHS England Data Uses Register. Search that workbook for DARS-NIC-90661-W2S5Q to see the original rows.