Birth Notification Data
- Agreements naming it
- 15
- In term in September 2026
- 12
- Organisations
- 7
- Files released
- 58
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.
How the register describes it
Recorded against the dataset on each agreement, and not always the same from one agreement to the next, so every value found is listed.
- Type of data
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- Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant
- Identifiable
- Sensitivity
-
- Non-Sensitive
- Sensitive
- Frequency of release
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- Frequent Adhoc Flow
- One-Off
- Ongoing
- Legal basis for provision
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- Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261 - 'Other dissemination of information'
- Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261(5)(d)
- Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(a)
- Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(c)
- Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(7)
- National Health Service Act 2006 - s251 - 'Control of patient information'.
- Other-Data dissemination is mandated under section 45c of the Statistics and Registration Service Act (2007) as amended by the Digital Economy Act 2017
- Other-Section 45a of the Statistics and Registration Service Act (2007) as amended by the Digital Economy Act (2017)
Organisations whose agreements name it (7)
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With an agreement in term in September 2026 (6)
- University College London (UCL) (5 of 7 in term)
- Imperial College London (2)
- Office for National Statistics (ONS) (2)
- Queen Mary University of London (1)
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) (1)
- University of Oxford (1)
With expired agreements only (1)
Agreements covering this dataset
Showing all 15 agreements.
Files: files of this dataset released under the agreement, across all its versions.
Cite this page
NHS England (2026) Data Uses Register, September 2026 edition, agreements naming Birth Notification Data. Read via NHS Data Access Explorer (unofficial), https://healthdatauses.uk/datasets/birth-notification-data/ (accessed [date]).
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