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

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

Note that NHS Talking Therapies was formerly known as Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) and the data feed on the extract specification that trusts will submit will still be called IAPT for the 2025 National Cost Collection.

This Notice is served on:

• all trusts identified in Annex A Section 2 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.

The data will be collected annually from 9 June 2025 until 1 August 2025.