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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
  • Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant
  • Identifiable
Sensitivity
  • Non-Sensitive
  • Sensitive
Frequency of release
  • Frequent Adhoc Flow
  • One-Off
  • Ongoing
Legal basis for provision
  • 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)

Show the list, with the number of agreements for each

With an agreement in term in September 2026 (6)

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.

Agreements covering Birth Notification Data
AgreementOrganisationTypeFilesLatest termStatusCommercial
Generation New Era DARS-NIC-782449-Z6G3F University College London (UCL) Academic 2 14 August 2026 to 16 February 2030 In term Yes
Generation New Era - Phase 1a and 1b DARS-NIC-800961-W7P2T University College London (UCL) Academic 3 17 February 2026 to 16 February 2030 In term Yes
Children and Families Policy Research Unit DARS-NIC-393510-D6H1D University College London (UCL) Academic 3 8 September 2025 to 7 September 2028 In term No
National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA) DARS-NIC-44356-Y8N6R Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) Agency/Public Body 7 25 November 2025 to 31 December 2027 In term No
QResearch Data Linkage Project DARS-NIC-382794-T3L3M Queen Mary University of London Academic 0 15 June 2026 to 27 November 2027 In term Yes
Childhood outcomes after perinatal brain injury (Data flowing to ONS) DARS-NIC-342322-Q1N7M University College London (UCL) Academic 0 12 July 2024 to 17 October 2027 In term No
SCAMP: Study of Cognition, Adolescents, and Mobile Phones DARS-NIC-27085-C5L5G Imperial College London Academic 3 27 June 2024 to 26 September 2027 In term No
MBRRACE-UK - Delivering the National Maternal, Newborn and Infant Clinical Outcome Review Programme - National Surveillance of Maternal and Perinatal Deaths DARS-NIC-359651-H3R1P University of Oxford Academic 35 22 August 2025 to 21 September 2027 In term No
Investigating COVID-19 DARS-NIC-400304-S1P1B Office for National Statistics (ONS) Agency/Public Body 0 10 July 2026 to 9 July 2027 In term Yes
D5 - Office for National Statistics requirements for NHS-England (formerly NHS Digital) data, for the purposes of Statistics and Statistical Research, under section 45 of the Statistics and Registration Services Act 2007 as amended by the Digital Economy Act 2017 DARS-NIC-175120-W5G2X Office for National Statistics (ONS) Agency/Public Body 0 2 May 2026 to 1 May 2027 In term No
Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (The ECHILD Research Database) DARS-NIC-381972-Q5F0V University College London (UCL) Academic 2 13 March 2026 to 31 March 2027 In term No
UK Small Area Statistics Unit - Research Database NN4B DARS-NIC-208561-Z1M7V Imperial College London Academic 0 27 January 2026 to 16 January 2027 In term No
ECHILD - Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data DARS-NIC-578994-N0J1X Department for Education Agency/Public Body 0 13 February 2023 to 12 February 2026 Expired No
UK Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study (ELC-FS) DARS-NIC-482185-K8G0F University College London (UCL) Academic 3 28 March 2025 to 27 December 2025 Expired No
Educational outcomes in children born after assisted reproductive technology; a population-based linkage study DARS-NIC-258079-G7W1Y University College London (UCL) Academic 0 28 February 2022 to 27 February 2025 Expired No

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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