Birth Notification Data
- Agreements naming it
- 15
- In term in September 2026
- 12
- Organisations
- 7
- Files released
- 58
Files released counts only files released externally by DARS. Access granted in NHS England's own systems, such as its Secure Data Environment, is not included.
How the register describes it
Recorded against the dataset on each agreement, and not always the same from one agreement to the next, so every value found is listed.
- Type of data
-
- Anonymised - ICO Code Compliant
- Identifiable
- Sensitivity
-
- Non-Sensitive
- Sensitive
- Frequency of release
-
- Frequent Adhoc Flow
- One-Off
- Ongoing
- Legal basis for provision
-
- Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261 - 'Other dissemination of information'
- Health and Social Care Act 2012 - s261(5)(d)
- Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(a)
- Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(2)(c)
- Health and Social Care Act 2012 – s261(7)
- National Health Service Act 2006 - s251 - 'Control of patient information'.
- Other-Data dissemination is mandated under section 45c of the Statistics and Registration Service Act (2007) as amended by the Digital Economy Act 2017
- Other-Section 45a of the Statistics and Registration Service Act (2007) as amended by the Digital Economy Act (2017)
Organisations whose agreements name it (7)
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With an agreement in term in September 2026 (6)
- University College London (UCL) (5 of 7 in term)
- Imperial College London (2)
- Office for National Statistics (ONS) (2)
- Queen Mary University of London (1)
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) (1)
- University of Oxford (1)
With expired agreements only (1)
Files released by month
From January 2020, as on the files released over time page, which says why. 11 files released earlier are in the table.
Files and agreements by month, as a table
| Month | Agreements receiving files | Files released |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | 2 | 2 |
| June 2026 | 2 | 2 |
| May 2026 | 1 | 1 |
| April 2026 | 1 | 1 |
| March 2026 | 2 | 3 |
| January 2026 | 1 | 1 |
| December 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| October 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| July 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| June 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| March 2025 | 2 | 2 |
| December 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| September 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| August 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| June 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| March 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| February 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| December 2023 | 2 | 2 |
| October 2023 | 1 | 1 |
| September 2023 | 1 | 1 |
| June 2023 | 2 | 3 |
| May 2023 | 1 | 1 |
| March 2023 | 1 | 1 |
| February 2023 | 1 | 1 |
| July 2022 | 1 | 1 |
| April 2022 | 1 | 1 |
| February 2022 | 2 | 3 |
| January 2022 | 1 | 2 |
| December 2021 | 1 | 1 |
| November 2021 | 1 | 1 |
| April 2021 | 1 | 1 |
| February 2021 | 1 | 1 |
| January 2021 | 1 | 1 |
| December 2020 | 1 | 1 |
| July 2020 | 1 | 1 |
| January 2020 | 1 | 1 |
| November 2019 | 1 | 1 |
| September 2019 | 1 | 2 |
| May 2019 | 1 | 2 |
| November 2018 | 1 | 1 |
| July 2018 | 1 | 1 |
| March 2018 | 1 | 1 |
| December 2017 | 1 | 1 |
| August 2017 | 1 | 1 |
| July 2017 | 1 | 1 |
Agreements covering this dataset
Showing all 15 agreements.
Files: files of this dataset released under the agreement, across all its versions.
Cite this page
NHS England (2026) Data Uses Register, September 2026 edition, agreements naming Birth Notification Data. Read via NHS Data Access Explorer (unofficial), https://healthdatauses.uk/datasets/birth-notification-data/ (accessed [date]).
This address stays the same, but the page is rebuilt with each monthly edition, so the citation names the edition it shows. Every edition's data is kept in the facts store.