Our member datasets
Choose a dataset to see its key themes and how to take part.
MHLDA
Adult & Older People's Mental Health
Now in its 15th year, the Adult and Older People's Mental Health benchmarking dataset provides a comprehensive, UK-wide view of mental health service provision.
Community
Adult/All Ages Community Services
The Adult/All Ages Community Services benchmarking dataset was a new addition to the 2025 work programme, building on the foundations of the previous Therapies and Community Services datasets delivered in earlier years.
MHLDA
Children & Young People's Mental Health
Now in its 15th year, the Children & Young People's Mental Health benchmarking dataset provides a comprehensive, UK-wide picture of specialist mental health service provision.
Community
Children's Community Services
We have benchmarked children's community services for many years, evolving through various datasets. In 2025, we unified all children's community services benchmarked into the Children's Community Services dataset, providing a more streamlined and efficient approach to presenting participants with insight into their community provision for children.
Acute
Clinical Coding
The Clinical Coding benchmarking dataset is a new addition to the member programme for 2026/27, developed to give organisations with acute services a tailored way to benchmark their clinical coding services.
Acute
CTPA Pathway Audit
The CTPA pathway audit benchmarks how NHS organisations assess and manage suspected pulmonary embolism (blood clots in the lungs), examining the appropriateness of CT scan requests, diagnostic pathways and time-to-diagnosis across member trusts.
Community
District Nursing
District nursing has been benchmarked by the Network for over 20 years, most recently as a standalone dataset, providing a focused deep dive into district nursing services, demand, workforce capacity, activity, financial position and staff experience across community-based care.
Acute
Emergency Care
The Emergency Care dataset is now in its 15th year, providing a comprehensive UK-wide overview of emergency care services, including Type 1 & 2 emergency departments and Type 3 and 4 urgent care centres. Since its inception in 2012, the dataset has built a rich evidence base to support service improvement, benchmarking and best practice.
Community
Intermediate Care
The Intermediate Care dataset is in its 6th iteration, having been run annually since 2020. The dataset benchmarks data submitted by providers of intermediate care, covering urgent community response, home-based intermediate care and bed-based intermediate care.
MHLDA
Learning Disability Specialist Services
Now in its 11th year, the Learning Disability Specialist Services benchmarking dataset (formerly Learning Disability (Providers)) provides a comprehensive, UK-wide overview of specialist learning disability service provision.
Now in its 13th year, the Managing Frailty in a Bed-Based Setting dataset provides a comprehensive overview of care for older people across acute and community hospital settings. Since its inception in 2014, the dataset has built a rich evidence base to support service improvement, benchmarking and best practice sharing.
Managing Frailty
Acute
Community
MHLDA
Mental Health Pharmacy
The Mental Health Pharmacy dataset was initially developed in response to member feedback from provider organisations across the South of England. Following the strong engagement and value demonstrated through the 2024/25 pilot data collection, the dataset has now been formally included in the Network's member programme.
Acute
Pharmacy & Medicines Optimisation
The Pharmacy & Medicines Optimisation dataset provides national insight into the performance, capacity and strategic direction of pharmacy services across the NHS. It benchmarks workforce, finance, service delivery, digital maturity and clinical pharmacy activity to identify variation, highlight best practice and support system-wide improvement in medicines optimisation.
The Virtual Wards (also known as Hospital at Home) benchmarking dataset is now in its 2nd year, providing national insight into the delivery and development of virtual wards and hospital at home services across the UK.
Virtual Wards
Acute
Community