NHS Surplus Land, Quarter 2 2024/25

For quarters 1-3 of the financial year, the requirement is for data providers to only update data if were any changes or new plots to declare, rather than using the “commit” function at collection close.

All plots were effectively “opened” on the system at the start of quarter 2, i.e., made live, and a stage of “open” was conferred on them. Trusts who had declared they had no surplus land at the end of quarter 1 2024/25 did not have to update the system unless new plots had been identified.

122 trusts did not report any surplus land during quarter 2 2024/25.

The table above shows that of the 371 plots on the system during the quarter 2 collection window, 80 were updated during the period. 260 remained as they were at the start of the quarter and changes were started to 31 plot records but not finished (so their stage is recorded as “ongoing”, and the return is incomplete). Note that any new plots added (18 during quarter 2) will have a stage of either updated or ongoing; open plots are those carried through from quarter 1 2024/25 with no changes made. However, some providers that declared surplus plots were unable to provide accurate figures for all fields - please see 'Known issues' section below.

All data are provided via NHS England’s Estates and Facilities Management (EFM) system, which includes internal validation methodology to help towards responses that are accurate and within expected ranges. The collection system has functionality to ensure that only relevant questions are completed e.g., by adding / removing data fields depending on answers provided to specific related questions. A record of data cannot be completed until all required responses have been entered.

For quarter 2, providers were only required to enter and/or update data if there had been any changes during quarter 2 2024/25. As usual, the system was briefly closed for access whilst the extract was taken and then the next quarter being opened was announced to data providers.

The following bullets describe known issues relating to the Quarter 2 2024/25 return. We have included details of the provider type, and how many affected plots were “non-sensitive” and “sensitive”, as data users will only be able to access details for non-sensitive plots in the .csv file.