The National Casemix Office (NCO) is an ORGANISATION.

The National Casemix Office designs and refines classifications that are used by the English NHS to describe healthcare ACTIVITY. These classifications underpin the Payment by Results system from costing through to payment, and support local commissioning and performance management.

The National Casemix Office enables the NHS to:

• support ACTIVITY costing: to inform the national tariff setting processes
• report on PATIENT ACTIVITY information: to ensure that providers are paid for the SERVICES they deliver
• provide information: to support epidemiological studies and service planning
• enable providers and commissioners to use HRGs to benchmark and performance manage.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
formerly	The Casemix Service
shortname	NCO