Authors: Dr Tom Foley, Dr Neil Lawrence
Date: 2018/9
Publisher: NHS Digital
Description: We have a major role in handling data for health and social care. Our data, insights, and statistics teams work across dozens of topics, providing information that will help improve care for patients.
Here you’ll find an overview of the work our data, insights and statistics team do, demonstrating NHS Digital’s role in making the NHS a learning health system.You can find out what the teams working with data do, and how you and others can see and work with our data, to help improve the health and care system. The content has been prepared from a clinical perspective by Dr Tom Foley and Dr Neil Lawrence, with extensive input from across the teams.
Our data includes information collected by NHS or social care bodies, and ranges from data about individual patients, through to data about hospital buildings or the people who work in health and social care.