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NHS Digital
NHS Digital was the trading name from 2016 of the Health and Social Care Information Centre, which was the national provider of information, data and IT systems for commissioners, analysts and clinicians in health and social care in England, particularly those involved with the National Health Service of England. The organisation was an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care, until it was merged into NHS England in 2023.
NHS Digital provided digital services for the NHS and social care, including the management of large health informatics programmes. They delivered national systems through in-house teams, and by contracting private suppliers. These services included managing patient data including the Spine, which allows the secure sharing of information between different parts of the NHS, and forms the basis of the Electronic Prescription Service, Summary Care Record and Electronic Referral Service.
NHS Digital took on the roles of a number of predecessor bodies including the NHS Information Centre, NHS Connecting for Health, and parts of NHS Direct. It also ran "The NHS Website" (www.nhs.uk, formerly NHS Choices), the national website for the NHS in England.
NHS Digital was the national collator of information about health and social care, and produced more than 260 official statistics and national statistical publications. This included national comparative data for secondary uses, developed from the long-running Hospital Episode Statistics to help local decision-makers improve the quality and efficiency of frontline care.
The organisation was created as a special health authority on 1 April 2005 by a merger of the National Programme for IT, part of the Department of Health, the NHS Information Authority, and the Prescribing Support Unit.
Following the Health and Social Care Act 2012, the HSCIC changed from a special health authority to an executive non-departmental public body on 1 April 2013. Effective at this time, HSCIC took over parts of the troubled NHS National Programme for IT from the agency NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) which ceased to exist. It also ran the Health Survey for England.
On 20 April 2016, it was announced that HSCIC would be rebranding, changing its name to NHS Digital in July 2016.
NHSX, created in February 2019, had oversight of digital strategy and policy in NHS England. As a budget-holder, NHSX commissioned projects from NHS Digital. On 22 November 2021, it was announced that NHS Digital would be merged with NHSX and incorporated into NHS England. The merger was completed on 1 February 2023.
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NHS Digital
NHS Digital was the trading name from 2016 of the Health and Social Care Information Centre, which was the national provider of information, data and IT systems for commissioners, analysts and clinicians in health and social care in England, particularly those involved with the National Health Service of England. The organisation was an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care, until it was merged into NHS England in 2023.
NHS Digital provided digital services for the NHS and social care, including the management of large health informatics programmes. They delivered national systems through in-house teams, and by contracting private suppliers. These services included managing patient data including the Spine, which allows the secure sharing of information between different parts of the NHS, and forms the basis of the Electronic Prescription Service, Summary Care Record and Electronic Referral Service.
NHS Digital took on the roles of a number of predecessor bodies including the NHS Information Centre, NHS Connecting for Health, and parts of NHS Direct. It also ran "The NHS Website" (www.nhs.uk, formerly NHS Choices), the national website for the NHS in England.
NHS Digital was the national collator of information about health and social care, and produced more than 260 official statistics and national statistical publications. This included national comparative data for secondary uses, developed from the long-running Hospital Episode Statistics to help local decision-makers improve the quality and efficiency of frontline care.
The organisation was created as a special health authority on 1 April 2005 by a merger of the National Programme for IT, part of the Department of Health, the NHS Information Authority, and the Prescribing Support Unit.
Following the Health and Social Care Act 2012, the HSCIC changed from a special health authority to an executive non-departmental public body on 1 April 2013. Effective at this time, HSCIC took over parts of the troubled NHS National Programme for IT from the agency NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) which ceased to exist. It also ran the Health Survey for England.
On 20 April 2016, it was announced that HSCIC would be rebranding, changing its name to NHS Digital in July 2016.
NHSX, created in February 2019, had oversight of digital strategy and policy in NHS England. As a budget-holder, NHSX commissioned projects from NHS Digital. On 22 November 2021, it was announced that NHS Digital would be merged with NHSX and incorporated into NHS England. The merger was completed on 1 February 2023.