Community Services Data Set Pilot Collection (Community Pilot)

The purpose of this pilot is to develop and test the collection of a core subset of the CSDS, already collected under the CSDS collection, into a granular daily data collection (Community Pilot), which is intended to lead to improvements in the CSDS collection and to the transformation of community data collections more widely.

The Community Pilot data collection has been piloted with a small group of early adopters between October 2023 and July 2024. Following successful early adopter testing, the scope of this collection is expanding to a non-mandated pilot on a national scale. The intention is that this will become a mandatory collection, with an associated Information Standards Notice (ISN) following further testing as part of the national rollout. 

This Notice is served on:

• all publicly funded community services in England, which have agreed to participate.

Providers could be from:

• foundation or non-foundation trusts
• acute trusts
• mental health trusts
• community healthcare trusts
• care trusts
• social enterprises
• integrated care organisations
• any qualified providers
• independent sector providers (including third sector)
• local authorities.

The scope of community services includes community care activity undertaken by providers in England, including any qualified organisations providing publicly funded care in non-NHS settings and overseas but not including patients receiving private treatment within an NHS trust (i.e. within a Private Patient Unit (PPU)).

The Community Pilot is a daily data collection commencing from July 2024. It is expected to continue for a period of 2 years, at which point it will transition to a mandatory national collection. 

Aggregate data will continue to be collected, broken down by day and submitted to the Intermediate Care Discharge SitRep on a weekly basis.

It is expected that publications will be developed as part of this pilot, however this is currently unconfirmed. This Data Provision Notice will be updated with details of publications as and when this is confirmed.