NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT

A formal agreement between a commissioner ORGANISATION and one or more Health Care ProviderORGANISATIONS for the provision of PATIENT care SERVICES.

Description

A formal agreement between a commissioner ORGANISATION and one or more Health Care Provider ORGANISATIONS for the provision of PATIENT care SERVICES.

SERVICES may be commissioned in two ways:

Nationally, arranged through the direct commissioning functions and processes of NHS England and Specialised Commissioning Hubs
By Clinical Commissioning Groups, acting individually or as part of a commissioning consortia.

The costs of a NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT accrue to the ORGANISATION responsible for commissioning the treatment.

For Commissioning Data Set messages the commissioner is identified in the ORGANISATION CODE (CODE OF COMMISSIONER) field.

Attributes

Key	Attribute Name
Key	NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT NUMBER

Relationships

Each NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT

Key	Relationship	Class
Key	may be commissioned by one or more	NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
	may be comprised of one or more	NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT LINE
	may be out of area treatment for one or more	PATIENT
	must be an agreement with one or more	PROVIDER IN SERVICE AGREEMENT

Where Used

Type	Link	How used
Data Set	CDS V6-2 Type 150 - Admitted Patient Care - Other Birth Event CDS	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Supporting Information		references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Data Set	CDS V6-2 Type 160 - Admitted Patient Care - Other Delivery Event CDS	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Supporting Information		references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Supporting Information	Commissioning Data Set Addressing Grid	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Supporting Information	Commissioning Data Set Addressing Grid	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Supporting Information	Commissioning Data Sets Overview	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Supporting Information	Commissioning Data Sets Overview	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Supporting Information	Contract Monitoring	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Supporting Information	Contract Monitoring	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
NHS Business Definition	Health Care Provider	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Class	NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Class	NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT CHANGE	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Class	NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT LINE	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Data Element	NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT LINE NUMBER	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Attribute	NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT LINE NUMBER	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Attribute	NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT NUMBER	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Supporting Information	Non-contract Activity	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Supporting Information	Non-contract Activity	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Class	PATIENT	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Class	PROVIDER IN SERVICE AGREEMENT	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Class	SERVICE	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT
Class	SERVICE PROVIDED UNDER AGREEMENT	references in description NHS SERVICE AGREEMENT

Also Known As

This class is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
Plural	NHS SERVICE AGREEMENTS