Contextual Overview
The Female Genital Mutilation Data Set provides essential information in relation to the female genital mutilation population across England.
The Female Genital Mutilation Data Set is used:
- To publish Official Statistics which will inform the Department of Health, NHS England, other Government Agencies and the public, about female genital mutilation when it has been identified
- To identify the potential risk of female genital mutilation to young girls and vulnerable women
- For better planning and management of female genital mutilation SERVICES at a local level and across England
Data may be input immediately using an input screen via the HSCIC Clinical Audit Platform when female genital mutilation is identified, or data extracts for Patients, can be submitted as a bulk upload on a monthly basis for each ORGANISATION.
CARE CONTACT activities undertaken for female genital mutilation PATIENTS during the REPORTING PERIOD are reported in the data upload. This includes any attendances at an Out-Patient Clinic led by any type of CARE PROFESSIONAL, Hospital Provider Spells, Accident and Emergency Attendances, Group Therapy, Ward Attendances; or any other type of direct PATIENT-facing CARE CONTACT, with an exception to Sexual and Reproductive Health Clinics and Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) clinics, who are not required to submit the Female Genital Mutilation Data Set to the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
The associated SNOMED CT Subsets for the Female Genital Mutilation Data Set are listed below:
- Female genital mutilation related findings - Original ID 58681000000133
- Female genital mutilation related procedures - Original ID 58671000000131
DATA EXTRACT SPECIFICATION
Description:
The Department of Health requires all NHS Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts and GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS to generate and provide a data extract in accordance with the Female Genital Mutilation Data Set. This requirement is applicable to all CARE PROFESSIONALS in these ORGANISATIONS whenever it has been identified that a woman or young girl has undergone female genital mutilation.
Further information is available on the Health and Social Care Information Centre website.Time period:
Data extracted from systems can be submitted as a bulk upload on a quarterly basis for each ORGANISATION.
Format:
Data submitted by the bulk upload facility must be formatted in 3 separate comma separated variable (csv) files (i.e. Patient, Attendance or Female Genital Mutilation), which are used to populate the Health and Social Care Information Centre Clinical Audit Platform. The data elements should be transmitted in the order specified in the Female Genital Mutilation Data Set.
Transmission
Electronic files must be transmitted to the Health and Social Care Information Centre via the Clinical Audit Platform which is a secure web portal.
Connection to the web portal requires registration to the Clinical Audit Platform, which will include the provision of a login account name and password.
Further information about the Clinical Audit Platform and the data upload facility can be found on the Clinical Audit Platform web pages on the Health and Social Care Information Centre website.
Further guidance on the Female Genital Mutilation Data Set can be found on the Standardisation Committee for Care Information publication web pages on the Health and Social Care Information Centre website.