The UK Statistics Authority wrote to Mr Hugh Pym about release of NHS Improvement data

23 May 2017 · Sir David Norgrove, UK Statistics Authority

The letter, dated 23 May 2017, replies to correspondence of 18 May 2017. The UK Statistics Authority published it as Release of NHS Improvement data. Below are 2 passages from the letter in the regulator's own words.

What the UK Statistics Authority wrote

“These figures fall outside the statutory remit of the UK Statistics Authority, because they are not official statistics.”

“The UK Statistics Authority and NHS Improvement have recently discussed the benefit that would come from NHS Improvement choosing voluntarily to comply with the Code of Practice in relation to these data and, in the longer term, to consider publishing them as official statistics so that in future publication dates would indeed be pre-announced, and that complete data would be made equally available to all.”

From Sir David Norgrove, UK Statistics Authority, letter of 23 May 2017. Read the full letter.

Correspondence

• The letter it answered: Release of NHS Improvement data (18 May 2017)

Receipt