The Secondary Uses Service is designed to provide anonymous PATIENT-based data for purposes other than direct clinical care such as healthcare planning, commissioning, public health, clinical audit and governance, benchmarking, performance improvement, medical research and national policy development.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre is establishing a single, secure data environment for the whole of the NHS. The Secondary Uses Service provides a consistent environment for the management and linkage of data, allowing better comparison of data across the care sector, together with associated analysis and reporting tools.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre is working in partnership with NHS Connecting for Health, which manages the National Programme for IT. This joint programme team is responsible for the development and implementation of the Secondary Uses Service.

Further information about the Secondary Uses Service can be found on the NHS Connecting for Health managed website at Secondary Uses Service.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

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shortname	SUS