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
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- Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant
- Identifiable
- Sensitivity
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- Non-Sensitive
- Sensitive
- Frequency of release
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- One-Off
- Ongoing
- System Access
- 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)(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)
- University of Bristol (7)
- University of Oxford (2 of 3 in term)
- Department of Health and Social Care (1 of 2 in term)
- Queen Mary University of London (2)
- University College London (UCL) (2)
- Care Quality Commission (CQC) (1)
- Imperial College London (1)
- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (1)
- King's College London (1)
- Natcen Social Research (1)
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (1)
- Office for National Statistics (ONS) (1)
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) (1)
- The University of Manchester (1)
- UK Health Security Agency (1)
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (1)
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.
Cite this page
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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