Care Hours Per Patient Day (CHPPD) Data Provision Notice

The purpose of the CHPPD and Nurse Staffing Fill Rate (NStf_Fil) collection is to monitor at a ward level the extent to which rota hours are being filled by registered nurses and midwives and unregistered care staff; and to monitor care hours per patient day. The key purpose of the collection is to obtain re-assurance that wards are being safely staffed and to support organisations with benchmarking of their staffing and identify areas of potential unwarranted variation.

All NHS Trusts providing inpatient services.

NHS England has been directed by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care under section 254 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. A copy of the Direction is published at The migration and continued operation of the Unify2 collections through Strategic Data Collections Service Direction 2017.

Monthly

November 2024 

Updated following regular review, new Information Asset Owner identified.

April 2024 

The CHPPD data collection has had COVID related questions removed and has been renamed from Nurse Staffing Fill Rate (NStf_Fil) to Care Hours per Patient Day (CHPPD).