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Patient Level Information and Costing Systems (PLICS) Ambulance Collection financial year 2024 – 2025 Data Provision Notice

Data Provision Notice for the Patient Level Information and Costing Systems (PLICS) data collection required to be submitted by providers of ambulance services for the 2024-25 financial year.

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Overview

The information gathered from this collection will be used to enable NHS England’s Costing Transformation Programme to more effectively perform its pricing and licensing functions under the Health and Social Care Act 2022. It will:

  • inform new methods of pricing NHS services
  • inform new approaches and other changes to the design of the currencies used to price NHS services
  • contribute to NHS England’s strategic objective of a single national cost collection
  • inform the relationship between provider characteristics and cost
  • help trusts to maximise use of their resources and improve efficiencies, as required by the provider licence
  • identify the relationship between patient characteristics and cost
  • support an approach to benchmarking for regulatory purposes
  • support the NHS’s drive to improve productivity and efficiency

Scope

This Notice is served on:

  • All trusts identified in Annex A Section 4 of the published  Requirements Specification for Patient Level Information and Costing Systems (PLICS) Mandatory Collections continued implementation and associated Mandatory Request. These documents are published on the NHS England website. The organisation specified in the above scope are requested to comply with the form.

Legal basis

In accordance with the Health and Care Act 2022 and the Health and Care Act 2022 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional and Saving Provision) Regulations 2022, as of 1 July 2022 Monitor (NHS Improvement) is abolished, and all mandatory requests from Monitor (NHS Improvement) are to be treated as a direction by NHS England to NHS Digital under section 254 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

The statutory functions of NHS Digital transferred to NHS England under the Health and Social Care Information Centre (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023 (Transfer Regulations) with effect from 1st February 2023 (Transfer Date). Under the Transfer Regulations, all directions by either the Secretary of State or NHS England to NHS Digital are now regarded as if they were directions made by the Secretary of State to NHS England.

Consequently, the legal basis for this collection is still the Mandatory Request (now Direction), with its status now deemed to be a Direction from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to NHS England under section 254 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

Period

From 9 June 2025 until 1 August 2025.

Read the Data Provision Notice

Updates

2023 - 2025 updates

11 June 2025: Update to link to new Data Provision Notice for 2024/2025 financial year

5 June 2024: Update to link to new Data Provision Notice for 2023/2024 financial year. 

27 September 2023: Version 3 of this notice issued both to support the 2023 data collection and to reflect the legal and organisational changes which came into effect on 1 July 2022 and 1 February 2023.

Last edited: 11 June 2025 2:18 pm