NHS Continuing Healthcare Patient-Level Data Set
Sets out the rules for an end to end, patient level data set that captures data relating to patient details, NHS Continuing health care (CHC) eligibility, activity, reviews and care packages.
About this standard
- Publisher
- NHS England
- Reference code
- DCB3085 Amd 51/2019
- Publication date
- 07/05/2020
- Status
- Active
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- Standard type
- Collections
- Information standards
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Collections. A Collection is a systematic gathering of a specified selection of data or information for a particular stated purpose from existing records held within health and care systems and electronic devices.
Extractions. An extraction is a type of collection that is pulled from an operational system by the data controller and transmitted to the receiver without additional processing or transcription by the sender.
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- Contact point
- Quote ‘DSDS CHC’ in the subject line.
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- Impacts on
- Implementation of this information standard impacts all health IT systems suppliers providing systems to the above providers; suppliers should work with their customers to determine necessary changes.
- Associated medias
- Conformance date
- 01/05/2021
- Effective from
- 01/04/2021
Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Adult
- Continuity of care
- Data definitions and terminologies
- Key care information
- Reference data
Dependencies and related standards
- Dependencies
No known dependencies.
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Review Information
- Scope
- NHS Services
- Sponsor
Paul Gavin, Programme Director, Continuing Healthcare Strategic Improvement Programme, NHS England.
- Senior Responsible Officer
Trish O’Gorman, Head of NHS Continuing Healthcare, NHS England.
- Business Lead
- Andy Tookey, Head of Analytics, NHS Continuing Healthcare, NHS England and Mussarat Khan, Dataset Maintenance Operational Delivery Manager, NHS England.
- Approval date
- 23/04/2020
- Post Implementation review Date
- 31/05/2022
Legal basis and endorsements
- Legal authority
Section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
This information standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
More information
NHS Continuing Healthcare (NHS CHC) means a package of ongoing care that is arranged and funded solely by the NHS where the individual has been assessed and found to have a ‘primary health need’ as set out in the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing.
This new standard, the NHS Continuing Healthcare (NHS CHC) Patient-Level Data Set, sets out the rules for an end to end, patient level data set that captures data relating to:
- Patient details (date of birth, gender, etc.)
- NHS CHC eligibility (checklist outcome, Decision Support Tool (DST) outcomes, eligibility, decision process, referral-to-decision times and backlog, etc.)
- NHS CHC activity (numbers eligible, newly eligible, no longer eligible etc.)
- Annual, 3-month and ad hoc reviews
- Local requests for review of eligibility decisions.
- NHS CHC care packages
Data is submitted monthly by data providers to NHS Digital via the Strategic Data Collection Service (SDCS) Cloud service.
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