The Commissioning Data Set is the basic structure used for the submission of commissioning data to the Secondary Uses Service. Every secondary care provider in England has to send a set of standard Commissioning Data Sets to the Secondary Uses Service which contains details of all the care they have provided.

Each Commissioning Data Set name is in Title Case and where the name of a Data Set is Orange, it indicates that it is a hyperlink and if clicked on will display the Data Set.

The following information is available on a Commissioning Data Set:

• "Overview": provides information relating to the type of Commissioning Data Set.
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• "Specification":
  • This displays the Data Set.
  • The Data Set is split into Data Groups which contain Data Elements grouped into logical sections. For example the ‘CDS Data Group: Patient Identity’ contains Data Elements relating to a Patient’s identity such as NHS NUMBER.
  • If you click on any item in the Data Set, the definition will be displayed.

Supporting Data Sets

Supporting Data Sets are subsets of Commissioning Data Sets and can be accessed from the Front Page as with any other Data Sets, for example, the Critical Care Minimum Data Set.  All relevant Commissioning Data Sets can be accessed by clicking on the hyperlinks from this Data Set.

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•  NHS Data Model and Dictionary Content

View the Commissioning Data Sets Overview in the NHS Data Model and Dictionary.