Version: 1.0.2 | Published: 1 Dec 2025 | Updated: 5 days ago
HIV and AIDS Reporting System
Dataset
Summary
Type:
- Collections
- Information standards
Effective From:
01 November 2016
Applies To:
- Staff working in HIV and GUM clinics that provide care to HIV outpatients
- Scientific and public health staff working at Public Health England
- Local authorities
- Primary care trusts
- Commissioners
- Strategic health authority staff who plan services and manage performance
- Department of Health staff who plan services and manage performance
Impacts On:
Implementation of the change to this information standard impacts all health IT
systems suppliers providing systems to the above providers; suppliers should
work with their customers to determine and implement necessary changes.
Conformance Date:
31 March 2017
Topics:
Data definitions and terminologies
Care Settings:
GP / Primary care
Alternate Name:
Also known as HARS.
Documentation
Associated Media:
Description:
The HIV and AIDS Reporting System (HARS) is a dataset that underpins national HIV surveillance. It is a quarterly reported patient level dataset capturing all HIV attendances in NHS funded outpatient services.
The HARS dataset is used to:
- Inform the public health response and policy formulation for HIV in England.
- Identify the groups at risk of HIV infection in England
- Monitor the short and long term clinical outcomes of people living with HIV infection.
- Monitor the effectiveness of the national policies and guidance.
- Adapt and refine interventions, as appropriate.
Secondary analyses allow the production of aggregate outputs that are used to:
- Directly support the commissioning of HIV services through collation of data.
- Inform the national HIV outpatient tariff for payment by results.
- Conduct performance management at the local authority and national level.
About this change
HIV is a rapidly evolving field and the changes included in this release are to ensure the dataset is up to date with the developments in diagnosis and treatment and remains fit for purpose.
The changes are categorised into 3 groups:
- Addition of new data items
- Amendment of existing data items
- Retirement of data items
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Origin
Name:
NHSE-SD Data Catalogue