ReQoL & MSK-HQ available through NHS Digital’s Clinical Content Repository Library

22nd May 2020

Supporting mental health and musculoskeletal conditions within public healthcare and ensuring the collection of national data-sets from NHS trusts all around the UK.

In the spring of 2019, our team was approached by the Copyright Licensing Service of the National Clinical Content Repository, operated by NHS Digital to enquire about entering a licence for two of our measures, the Versus Arthritis Musculoskeletal Health Questionnaire (MSK-HQ) and the Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL) Questionnaire.

The main aim of the library is to make clinical assessment tools and outcome measures, easier to sublicense and implement within routine healthcare and to ensure the collection of national data-sets from NHS trusts all around the UK. The measures are respectively in the Community Service and Mental Health Data Sets. The National Data Sets gather experimental statistics that are compiled into reports (CSDS and MHSMS) which help inform public policy choices in health and social care. The impact of our measures on the health and wealth of society is clearly represented by the choice by NHS England to include them in their toolbox.

After aligning the public health and social care objectives of the NHS with our team’s duty to ensure the copyright of our COAs is handled correctly in the interest of all our stakeholders, the licences went live in last year and have now concluded with the first report back.

To date this has allowed a number of sub licences to be concluded and they represent a range of NHS Trusts, Charities or Social Enterprises or Community Interest Companies. We are pleased to report that the logistics of collaborating with a large organisation to sublicense on our behalf have worked very well.

If you would like to find out how the ReQoL or MSK-HQ might be utilised as part of your routine healthcare programme or research study, we invite you to read more information on our specific Patient Reported Outcome Measures pages.

For NHS trusts, Charities or Social Enterprises/Community Interest Companies, we invite you to submit a licence request via the National Clinical Content Repository.

 

Best wishes,

The Clinical Outcomes team

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