Version: 1.0.1 | Published: 1 Dec 2025 | Updated: 2 days ago

Trauma Audit and Research Network Notification Data Set

Dataset

Summary

Type:
  • Collections
  • Information standards
Effective From:
01 April 2014
Applies To:
  • Trauma receiving trusts across England
  • Clinical Audit/Effectiveness Depts, Emergency Depts, all other departments/specialties managing major trauma patients
  • Commissioners responsible for trauma care
  • NHS England and the Department of Health
  • Regulatory bodies
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
  • Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP)
  • Royal College of Surgeons
  • British Orthopaedic Association
  • Society of British Neurological Surgeons
  • Headway
  • Care Quality Commission (CQC)
Topics:
  • Care
  • Clinical safety
  • Data definitions and terminologies
  • Service
Care Settings:
  • Hospital
  • Urgent and Emergency Care
Alternate Name:
TARN Notification Data Set

Documentation

Description:

This standards aims to

  • encourage best practice within the emergency care setting by monitoring standards recommended by NICE, the Royal College of Surgeons and British Orthopaedic Association
  • provide participating trusts with an assessment of the procedures and treatment administered to the injured patient
  • produce analysis for clinical and epidemiological data and thereby provide a statistical base to support clinical audit
  • support multidisciplinary clinical audit by analysis of case management
  • provide comparative statistics to clinicians and clinical governance upon patient outcome performance
  • allow Commissioners to monitor trauma load and measure quality of care
  • support trauma care system development.