NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre

The Information Centre for health and social care is a Special Health Authority of the National Health Service (NHS) in England, based in Leeds.

It was created on 1 April 2005 to take over the routine collection and publication of health and social care statistics formerly undertaken by the Department of Health, parts of the NHS Information Authority, and the Prescribing Support Unit.

The 'change manager' overseeing its set-up was John Fox, previously Director of Statistics at the Department of Health. Its first chief executive is Denise Lievesley, from July 2005.

Its headquarters are at 1 Trevelyan Square in Leeds.

The Centre has set up a major public-private partnership with Dr Foster to provide better healthcare information. This joint venture is called Dr Foster Intelligence.