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MSDS (Maternity Services Data Set) v1.5

Agreements naming it
31
In term in September 2026
25
Organisations
20
Files released
112

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
  • One-Off
  • Ongoing
  • System Access
Legal basis for provision
  • 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)(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(7)
  • National Health Service Act 2006 - s251 - 'Control of patient information'.
2 more
  • Other-Regulation 3 of The Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002
  • Other-Statistics and Registration Services Act (2007) Section 45C

Organisations whose agreements name it (20)

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With an agreement in term in September 2026 (16)

With expired agreements only (4)

Agreements covering this dataset

Showing all 31 agreements.

Files: files of this dataset released under the agreement, across all its versions.

Agreements covering MSDS (Maternity Services Data Set) v1.5
AgreementOrganisationTypeFilesLatest termStatusCommercial
Mapping the local and regional characteristics of maternity population in England DARS-NIC-651858-F5H2J King's College London Academic 2 10 March 2025 to 9 March 2030 In term No
D1.1 - UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) Single Data Sharing Agreement DARS-NIC-343380-H5Q9K UK Health Security Agency Agency/Public Body 9 13 March 2026 to 12 March 2029 In term No
Risk Of Aneurysm Rupture Study (ROAR) DARS-NIC-334745-L4J6P University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust NHS Trust 4 3 December 2025 to 2 December 2028 In term No
Childhood Arthritis Prospective Study (CAPS): NHS data linkage DARS-NIC-784100-W4B7T The University of Manchester Academic 2 6 October 2025 to 5 October 2028 In term No
Children and Families Policy Research Unit DARS-NIC-393510-D6H1D University College London (UCL) Academic 9 8 September 2025 to 7 September 2028 In term No
Genes and Health DARS-NIC-338864-B3Z3J Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry Academic 12 24 February 2026 to 23 July 2028 In term Yes
National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) DARS-NIC-331142-P5K6M University of Bristol Academic 4 8 July 2025 to 7 July 2028 In term No
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) SDE access - Enabling Policy Analysis DARS-NIC-484452-H8S1L Department of Health and Social Care Ministerial Department 0 11 July 2025 to 24 April 2028 In term No
Continuation of AVON LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN (ALSPAC): consent DARS-NIC-152414-W3P6Q University of Bristol Academic 0 20 February 2026 to 19 February 2028 In term Yes
Continuation of AVON LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN (ALSPAC): section 251 DARS-NIC-789772-N6S1N University of Bristol Academic 0 20 February 2026 to 19 February 2028 In term Yes
A Better Start Evaluation (ABS) - Identifying the contribution made by the ABS programme to the life chances of children who have received ABS interventions. DARS-NIC-483357-P5L8F Natcen Social Research Research 1 22 August 2025 to 16 January 2028 In term No
National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA) DARS-NIC-44356-Y8N6R Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) Agency/Public Body 4 25 November 2025 to 31 December 2027 In term No
QResearch Data Linkage Project DARS-NIC-382794-T3L3M Queen Mary University of London Academic 10 15 June 2026 to 27 November 2027 In term Yes
The Effect of Operational Interventions on Maternity Care Pathways and Health Outcomes DARS-NIC-712819-X8G2J University of Oxford Academic 0 24 October 2025 to 24 September 2027 In term No
National Maternity Research Database pilot DARS-NIC-642373-Z3P7N Imperial College London Academic 4 31 August 2024 to 30 August 2027 In term No
Inequalities in stillbirth and preterm birth and their risk factors DARS-NIC-430380-F7L4Z University of Bristol Academic 4 28 June 2024 to 27 June 2027 In term No
University of Bristol - Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration - COPI Reg 3 DARS-NIC-420168-K4N1F University of Bristol Academic 0 29 May 2026 to 28 May 2027 In term No
PREgnancy-associated progression of chronic kidney DIsease: development of a Clinical predictive Tool (PREDICT):The National Registry of Rare Kidney Diseases (RaDaR), UK Renal Registry (UKRR), Hospital Episode Statistics(HES), and Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS) Linkage DARS-NIC-324170-J4P1J King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust NHS Trust 8 23 January 2026 to 26 April 2027 In term No
Outcomes of Patients who survived Treatment on an Intensive Care unit for COVID-19 in England and Wales (OPTIC-19): a comparative retrospective cohort study DARS-NIC-419335-H5P8T University of Oxford Academic 4 1 April 2026 to 18 April 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 4 13 March 2026 to 31 March 2027 In term No
University of Bristol - Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration - s251 cohort DARS-NIC-420229-G9H9S University of Bristol Academic 2 29 May 2026 to 31 March 2027 In term No
UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC) - Consent DARS-NIC-748729-Z8B3M University of Bristol Academic 2 23 March 2026 to 22 March 2027 In term No
Maternity Services Data Set DARS-NIC-631605-F2H3M Office for National Statistics (ONS) Agency/Public Body 8 16 May 2025 to 27 November 2026 In term No
DHSC Data Sharing Agreement managed by OHID. DARS-NIC-635697-P0C5M Office for Health Improvement and Disparities Ministerial Department 0 26 September 2025 to 25 September 2026 In term No
CQC agreement for HES, MHSDS, MSDS, CSDS and ECDS and associated datasets DARS-NIC-359603-D2Q6M Care Quality Commission (CQC) Agency/Public Body 5 20 June 2025 to 12 September 2026 In term No
Mortality Differences in Children of different Sexs' Admitted to UK Critical Care Units DARS-NIC-188901-P9M0S Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust NHS Trust 4 6 May 2023 to 16 August 2026 Expired No
Maternal and fetal variables associated with term stillbirths DARS-NIC-239092-Q9Q3X Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust NHS Trust 2 25 November 2024 to 31 March 2026 Expired 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
Understanding diversity in childbirth and London’s ethnic gap in maternal morbidity DARS-NIC-350331-P9L1M Roehampton University Academic 8 17 October 2022 to 16 October 2023 Expired No
National Core Studies - Data and Connectivity: COVID-19 Vaccines Pharmacovigilance (DaC-VaP) DARS-NIC-431355-B1L8W University of Oxford Academic 0 6 October 2022 to 11 July 2023 Expired No
Access to Pseudonymised datasets through the NHS Digital Portal DARS-NIC-365132-V5S8H Department of Health and Social Care Ministerial Department 0 2 March 2022 to 1 February 2023 Expired No

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NHS England (2026) Data Uses Register, September 2026 edition, agreements naming MSDS (Maternity Services Data Set) v1.5. Read via NHS Data Access Explorer (unofficial), https://healthdatauses.uk/datasets/msds-maternity-services-data-set-v1-5/ (accessed [date]).

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