Policy paper
Data collection for health and social care: burden reduction plan
Sets out a more collaborative and efficient approach to data collections across the health and social care system.
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This document explains the agreed plan between the Department of Health and arm’s length bodies.
It describes a more coordinated and collaborative way to collect data and to govern data collection from NHS bodies. This agreement follows the recommendations in ‘Challenging bureaucracy’ (2013) from the NHS Confederation.
The plan sets out how data will be collected and what has already been achieved.
The aim is to:
- collect proportionate data that has a clear business purpose
- prevent duplication of other data collections
- review the need to collect the data regularly
This work will be done through NHS Digital (formerly known as Health and Social Care Information Centre) – the national base for all data.