Directly commissioned services reporting requirements
The introduction of a set of four information standards for contract monitoring: Aggregate Contract Monitoring (ACM), Patient Level Contract Monitoring (PLCM), Drugs Patient Level Contract Monitoring (DrPLCM) and Devices Patient Level Contract Monitoring (DePLCM) are the file formats by which providers must report their healthcare activities commissioned by NHS England and during 2020/21.
The purpose of these standards is to enable the interchange, in a uniform format, of monthly contract monitoring data between commissioners and providers of healthcare. This ensures that contract monitoring and reporting is consistent and comparable across all commissioning organisations and their footprints.
It is the intention that these four data sets will form the basis by which all commissioners (both NHS England and CCGs) will receive their routine contract monitoring from providers from April 2021 onwards.
The user guidance document for each of the four contract monitoring data sets provides instructions to providers with regards to their population and submission.
Information must be supplied from providers to fulfil the needs of the NHS England and NHS Improvement quality assessment process including annual self-declaration and selected peer review requirements. Information must also be provided for the Specialised Services Quality Dashboard. For Specialised Mental Health Services, this includes moving from quarterly to monthly submissions of SSQD dashboards. The URL of the Quality Surveillance Information System (QSIS) is www.qst.england.nhs.uk.
Four information standards for contract monitoring
- Aggregate Contract Monitoring (ACM) Specification for 2020/21
- Aggregate Contract Monitoring (ACM) User Guidance v1.1
- Patient Level Contract Monitoring (PLCM) Specification for 2020/21
- Patient Level Contract Monitoring (PLCM) User Guidance v1.1
- Drugs Patient Level Contract Monitoring (DrPLCM) Specification for 2020/21
- Drugs Patient Level Contract Monitoring (DrPLCM) User Guidance v1.1
- Devices Patient Level Contract Monitoring (DePLCM) Specification for 2020/21
- Devices Patient Level Contract Monitoring (DePLCM) User Guidance v1.1
- Aggregate Contract Monitoring (ACM) Specification for 2019/20
- Aggregate Contract Monitoring (ACM) User Guidance v1.0
- Patient Level Contract Monitoring (PLCM) Specification for 2019/20
- Patient Level Contract Monitoring (PLCM) User Guidance v1.0
- Drugs Patient Level Contract Monitoring (DrPLCM) Specification for 2019/20
- Drugs Patient Level Contract Monitoring (DrPLCM) User Guidance v1.0
- Devices Patient Level Contract Monitoring (DePLCM) Specification for 2019/20
- Devices Patient Level Contract Monitoring (DePLCM) User Guidance v1.0
Other reporting specifications
- Specialised Mental Health – Patient Level Dataset (SMH PLD) Specification for 2020/21
- Specialised Mental Health – Patient Level Dataset (SMH PLD) User Guidance v1.0
- Mental Health Price Activity Matrix (MH PAM) Template (Schedule 2B) for 2020/21
- Price Activity Matrix (PAM) Reporting Specification v3.2 for 2020/21
- Augmented and Assistive Communications (AAC) Reporting Specification v1.5 for 2020/21
- Genomics Testing Reporting Specification v1.1 for 2020/21
- Limb Prosthetics Reporting Specification v2.0 for 2020/21
- Local Prices Reporting Specification v2.8 for 2020/21
- Long Stay Patient Reporting Specification v3.3 for 2020/21
- Paediatric Long Term Ventilation Reporting Specification v2.2 for 2020/21
- PET-CT Reporting Specification v2.1 for 2020/21
- Referral to Treatment (RTT)/Patient Treatment List (PTL) Reporting Specification v1.5 for 2020/21
- Mental Health Price Activity Matrix (MH PAM) Template (Schedule 2B) for 2019/20
- Price Activity Matrix (PAM) Reporting Specification v3.1 for 2019/20
- Augmented and Assistive Communications (AAC) Reporting Specification v1.4 for 2019/20
- Limb Prosthetics Reporting Specification v1.6 for 2019/20
- Local Prices Reporting Specification v2.7 for 2019/20
- Long Stay Patient Reporting Specification v3.2 for 2019/20
- Paediatric Long Term Ventilation Reporting Specification v2.1 for 2019/20
- Referral to Treatment (RTT)/Patient Treatment List (PTL) Reporting Specification v1.4 for 2019/20