Data Access Request Service (DARS) products and services

NHS Digital is committed to only releasing patient and service user data to those who have a genuine need for it and can demonstrate this to an independent oversight panel.

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These pages provide a link to the description of data sets readily available to request through our Data Access Request service (DARS). These data may be provided in the Secure Data Environment or as an extract. For clinical trials you may also want to use the DigiTrials Service which can also provide access to this data.

We do not make all our data sets available for public release.
Some data sets are only available to those organisations which commission and pay for health and care services.
Other data sets may only be available to a listed number of approved users. To enquire about any other data set not listed contact the DARS applications team.

Data set catalogue

Data sets readily available to request through DARS

DARS data sets

Services

Services available to request through DARS

Services available

Metadata dashboard

This dashboard provides metadata on publicly available fields for available data sets

Metadata dashboard

Data set additions and improvements report

This report covers the delivery and elaboration of DARS onboarding work

Open the report

Please be aware that due to the differences in the cohorts used to create publications versus those in the available data, it may not be possible to reproduce results from official statistical publications using data under an NHS England data sharing agreement.

Contact us

If you have any queries that are not answered by the online resources listed for each data set, please contact the data applications team.

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 0300 303 5678

Further information

NHS DigiTrials

NHS DigiTrials supports clinical trials developing new treatments.

Secure Data Environment

The NHS England Secure Data Environment (SDE) is a secure data and research analysis platform. It is part of an interoperable NHS Research Secure Data Environment network.

Data Services for Commissioners (DSfC)

We're responsible for ensuring NHS Digital meets its statutory and service obligations to commissioners. We do this via the Data Services for Commissioners Regional Offices (DSCROs) and by developing and implementing policies and plans.

Last edited: 5 April 2024 4:37 pm