Patient Reported Outcome Measures Dataset (PROMS)

This dataset provides an indication of the outcomes or quality of care delivered to NHS patients and has been collected by all providers of NHS-funded care since April 2009.  

The PROMs publications contain provider level data and data for England and CCGs.  Registered providers can access data monthly via our provider extract service. Publications occur biannually in February and August and are provisional until the dataset is declared finalised.  

Following changes to the reporting schedule for publications finalised full-year data will now be published six months earlier. Previously published in August, this will now be February. This decision was made due to address reporting needs amongst key users of the data for calculating more-timely finalised PROMS data.  

PROMs data was collected on varicose vein and groin hernia procedures in England, however following on from the NHS England Consultation on PROMs, collection of these procedures ceased on 1 October 2017. Finalised data for varicose vein and groin hernia procedures for 2016/17 and for April 2017 - September 2017 has now been published. Historical data will be unaffected.  

For more information visit Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs).

Direction

To be confirmed.  

Legal basis for the collection of the data  

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

Data Provision Notice  

To be confirmed.   

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  

Contains two years’ worth of data up to the end of the previous month (for example, the December data extract included data up to November of previous year). We usually run the processing run on the second Thursday of each month which allows the suppliers to submit within the first 2 weeks. If all the providers have completed their monthly submissions, then we start the processing run which takes around 12 to 16 hours to complete. 

The final process after that is to complete the post-processing run which takes around 2-3 hours to complete then we sent the data out the providers and DARS etc. So the lag time between data collection and dissemination is between 14 and 19 hours.  

Frequency  

Monthly.

Commissioning extracts specification  

Patient Reported Outcome Measures Dataset specification.  

Suppression rules 

To be confirmed.