The NWCS was the NHS-wide Clearing Service for

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and

NHS Wales NHS Wales ( cy, GIG (Gwasanaeth Iechyd Gwladol) Cymru) is the publicly-funded healthcare system in Wales, and one of the four systems which make up the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. NHS Wales was formed as part of the publ ...

. It was a method of

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between NHS organisations, for non-clinical purposes such as statistical analysis set up in 1996. Previously

Hospital Episode Statistics NHS Digital is the trading name of the Health and Social Care Information Centre, which is the national provider of information, data and IT systems for commissioners, analysts and clinicians in health and social care in England, particularly th ...

were collected by regional health authorities. It was operated by McKesson, who supplied the ClearNET IT system and was superseded in 2007 by the Secondary Uses Service (SUS).

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