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.

This class is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	NHS SERVICE AGREEMENTS