NHS Surplus Land, Quarter 4 2024/25

For the previous quarters of the financial year, the requirement was for data providers to only update data if there were any changes or new plots to declare. Since the quarter 4 extract represents the end of year position, we required data providers to use the “commit” function to confirm that all data had been reviewed.

443 completed plots have been declared by 92 trusts plus NHS Property Services. 117 trusts confirmed they had no surplus land to declare.

Some plot information provided was found to be inaccurate during our validation process; please see details in the “Known Issues” section.

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 4, providers were only required to enter and/or update data if there have been any changes during quarter 4 2024/25 but all trusts were required to confirm their position was up to date. For those trusts with no surplus land, this meant declaring this on the EFM system before the extract deadline, which was communicated well in advance to providers by NHS England. 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 4 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.

The next section details data quality issues in the values provided against each data field; any plots identified as “sensitive” are not visible in the .csv data file.