Bridge file: Hospital Episode Statistics to Mental Health Minimum Data Set
- Agreements naming it
- 34
- In term in September 2026
- 23
- Organisations
- 23
- Files released
- 14
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
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- Non-Sensitive
- Sensitive
- Frequency of release
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- Frequent Adhoc Flow
- One-Off
- Ongoing
- Legal basis for provision
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- CV19: Regulation 3 (4) of the Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002
- Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261 - 'Other dissemination of information'
- Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261(5)(c)
- 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)(b)(ii)
- Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(c)
- Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(4)
5 more
- Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(7)
- Informed Patient consent to permit the receipt, processing and release of data by NHS Digital
- National Audit Act 1983
- National Health Service Act 2006 - s251 - 'Control of patient information'.
- Other-S261(5)(d)
Organisations whose agreements name it (23)
Show the list, with the number of agreements for each
With an agreement in term in September 2026 (16)
- University of Oxford (4 of 5 in term)
- University College London (UCL) (2 of 3 in term)
- University of Leeds (2 of 3 in term)
- Genomics England (2)
- Imperial College London (2)
- University of Bristol (1 of 2 in term)
- Birmingham City Council (1)
- Care Quality Commission (CQC) (1)
- Carnall Farrar Limited (1)
- HSJ Information Ltd (1)
- London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (1)
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1)
- Queen Mary University of London (1)
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) (1)
- UK Biobank (1)
- University of Surrey (1)
With expired agreements only (7)
Agreements covering this dataset
Showing all 34 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 Bridge file: Hospital Episode Statistics to Mental Health Minimum Data Set. Read via NHS Data Access Explorer (unofficial), https://healthdatauses.uk/datasets/bridge-file-hospital-episode-statistics-to-mental-health-minimum-data-set/ (accessed [date]).
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