NHS Digital is an Organisation.

NHS Digital, the new trading name for Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), was set up as an Executive Non Departmental Public Body (ENDPB) in April 2013.

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 sets out NHS Digital's responsibilities, which include:

• Collecting, analysing and presenting national health and social care data
• Setting up and managing national IT systems for transferring, collecting and analysing information
• Publishing a set of rules to set out how the personal confidential information of PATIENTS should be handled and managed by health and care staff and Organisations
• Building up a library of 'indicators' that can be used to measure the quality of health and care services provided to the public
• Acting to reduce how much paperwork doctors, nurses and care workers have to complete by ensuring that only essential data is collected
• Helping health and care Organisations improve the quality of the data they collect and send to NHS Digital by setting standards and guidelines to help them assess how well they are doing
• Creating a register of all the information that NHS Digital collect and produce, and publishing that information in a range of different formats so that it will be useful to as many people as possible while safeguarding the personal confidential data of individuals.

Further information on NHS Digital can be found on the:

• NHS Digital website at: About NHS Digital
• NHS Digital part of the gov.uk website at: About us.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
alsoknownas	Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)