Continuing Health Care (CHC)

The purpose of the collection is for NHS England to monitor application of the National Framework and to be assured of compliance with the NHS England Operating Model and Assurance Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare (NHS CHC).

The collection supports a number of frameworks and key work programmes, such as the NHS CHC Operating Model and Assurance Framework, and the Strategic Improvement Programme (which aims to achieve 0.8 billion efficiency savings in CHC by 2020). The information on the CHC collection also links into hospital discharge work.

The collection includes a metric on percentage of assessments carried out in an acute hospital setting, and links into a quality premium to reduce acute assessments in order to support effective hospital discharge and assessment in the right time and right place. The collection also provides data required for assessing Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) performance against a second quality premium on the number of cases with a decision by the CCG within 28 days from receipt of the checklist (or other notification of potential eligibility).

For more information visit NHS Continuing Health Care (CHC) Patient Level Data Set.

Direction  

Please use the link below to find out about the Direction:

NHS Continuing Healthcare Directions 2022

Legal basis for the collection of the data  

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (HSCA 2012) section 254. 

Data Provision Notice

NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Funded Care Report DPN

Legal basis for the provision of data

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (HSCA 2012) section 259. 

Legal basis for processing the data

The UK GDPR Article 6 lawful basis for the processing of the personal data within this collection falls under: 

• Article 6(1)(e) processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller. 

The UK GDPR Article 9 condition for processing special categories of personal data within the collection falls under: 

• Article 9 2 (h) processing is necessary for the provision of health care or treatment, and for the management of health care systems or services. 

Transparency notice  

Find out about the Transparency Notice

Lag time from collection to dissemination  

This is an quarterly ongoing collection.  

For example for April the timeframes were as follows: 

• Collection start date: 3 April 2018 (Q4 17/18 data collection) 
• First submission date: 16 April 2018  
• Subsequent submission dates: Quarter-end plus 10 working days 
• Publication dates: Quarter-end plus 6 weeks 

Frequency  

Quarterly.

Commissioning extracts specification

Find out about the Continuing Health Care (CHC) Specification.

Suppression rules 

To be confirmed.