MSDS (Maternity Services Data Set) v2.0
- Agreements naming it
- 32
- In term in September 2026
- 28
- Organisations
- 24
- Files released
- 2,910
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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- Consent (Reasonable Expectation)
- 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)
- National Health Service Act 2006 - s251 - 'Control of patient information'.
- 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 (24)
Show the list, with the number of agreements for each
With an agreement in term in September 2026 (20)
- University of Bristol (6)
- The University of Manchester (2)
- University College London (UCL) (2)
- University of Oxford (2)
- Cardiff University (1)
- Care Quality Commission (CQC) (1)
- Department of Health and Social Care (1)
- Genomics England (1)
- Health Data Research UK (1)
- Imperial College London (1)
- King's College London (1)
- Natcen Social Research (1)
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (1)
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (1)
- Office for National Statistics (ONS) (1)
- Queen Mary University of London (1)
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) (1)
- UK Health Security Agency (1)
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (1)
- University of Nottingham (1)
With expired agreements only (4)
Agreements covering this dataset
Showing all 32 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) v2.0. Read via NHS Data Access Explorer (unofficial), https://healthdatauses.uk/datasets/msds-maternity-services-data-set-v2-0/ (accessed [date]).
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