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ODS - Health Authorities and Support Agencies

May 2016 Release

Data for Health Authorities and Support Agencies is maintained by the Organisation Data Service.

EAUTH:

This file contains codes for; PAN SHAs, IT Clusters, NHS England Commissioning Regions, Strategic Health Authorities and NHS Region (Geography) in England, plus codes for Government Office Regions in England and Wales. It also lists a number of high-level Welsh organisations. This data is for current organisations, plus data for organisations that have closed in the current or previous financial year.

Please note: NHS England Region (Geography) Q code format change - reference data amendment to use alphanumeric (character) range. Current numeric (number) range is to be discontinued after August 2017.

How Maintained:

IT Clusters closed in 2007. PAN SHAs and SHAs closed in 2013.

NHS England Commissioning Regions and NHS England Region (Geography) are not legal entities; they are sub-divisions of the NHS England. Information on these entities is supplied directly to ODS by the NHS England.

Government Office Region information is provided by the Office for National Statistics.

ESPHA:

This file contains codes for Special Health Authorities in England (note that Special HAs tend to be national organisations rather than administering a particular area of the country). This data is for current organisations, plus data for organisations that have closed in the current or previous financial year. Note also that ODS code sites for Special Health Authorities, these can be found in the eother.csv file.

How maintained

Special Health Authorities are statutory organisations. As such any establishment, dissolution or changes to their name are published in a Statutory Instrument which is released on to the Government website of the Office for Public Sector Information. The ODS check this website daily and implement any changes required.

Information on Special Health Authorities is relayed to ODS via the organisations in question. This is facilitated by an established ODS contact based within the organisation. No changes to the records associated to that organisation can be carried out without the express permission of the contact for that organisation.

ECSU:

Ecsu.csv contains parent CSUs and Data Management and Integration Centres (DMIC).

DMICs will collate commissioning intelligence pertaining to a number of CCGs, and provide this to other elements of the health service infrastructure including other CSUs.  The structure of DMICs is varied; some are hosted by a subset of the CSUs, others are stand-alone organisations. A subtype will be applied to DMICs to indicate them. The subtype indicator will be held in field 14 of the CSU release file.

This data is for current organisations, plus data for organisations that have closed in the current or previous financial year.

How Maintained

As hosts of the CSUs until April 2016, the NHS England provided ODS with the initial set of reference data for CSUs. However, following the publication of this initial set of CSU reference data ODS will rely on the individuals and organisations that are assigned the codes to advise them of any changes in the details to the CSU parents/sites.

ECSUSITE:

Ecsusite.csv contains just CSU sites. This data is for current organisations, plus data for organisations that have closed in the current or previous financial year.

How Maintained

As hosts of the CSUs until April 2016, the NHS England provided ODS with the initial set of reference data for CSUs. However, following the publication of this initial set of CSU reference data ODS will rely on the individuals and organisations that are assigned the codes to advise them of any changes in the details to the CSU parents/sites.

EOTHER:

Contains several different organisation types which either did not warrant their own dedicated file at the point of creation or did not easily fit within an existing file.

Contains:

Codes for: Local Service Providers (LSP), LSP Sites, Cancer Networks, Strategic Health Authority Sites (closed), Special Health Authority sites (see espha.csv for parent organisations), Other Statutory Authorities (OSA), OSA Sites, Executive Agencies of the Department of Health, Executive Agency Programmes, Executive Agency Programme Departments, Executive Agency Sites, Government Departments, Government Department Sites, Public Health Observatories, Cancer Registries, Channel Island Health Organisations, Military Hospitals, Clinical Networks, Application Service Providers, National Application Service Providers (NASP), NHS England Area Team Sites.

How Maintained

As Statutory Authorities, any organisations of type "Other Statutory Authorities" have an SI published for any establishment, dissolution or name changes, which is released on to the Government website of the Office for Public Sector Information. The ODS team check this website daily and implement any changes required.

ENSA:

Contains NHS Support Agencies in England: including current organisations and data for organisations that have closed in the current or previous financial year. These take the form of "Shared Services" and "Health Informatics Services" which are formed when two or more organisations that work closely together geographically and operationally, decide to centralise and merge common services (such as Human Resources, IT or Finance Departments).

How Maintained

Information on NHS Support Agencies is relayed to ODS via the organisations in question. Any request for a new code requires the submission of a form which requires the organisation's Chief Executive signature; this acts as a means of verifying the existence of the organisation. Any other future changes are related by an established ODS contact within the organisation. No changes to the records associated to that organisation can be carried out without the express permission of the contact for that organisation.

Monthly and Quarterly Amendment files are available for this data.

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