Many people on these lists have been affected either as researchers or organisations by the moratorium on the issuing of HES and other datasets. No announcement has been made on the HSCIC web site about how long this is going on and emails asking for information are not acknowledged or answered. This would appear to be a decision at a top level. Depite this, the HSCIC is still advertising its Data linkage and extract service with no indication that it has been suspended. http://www.hscic.gov.uk/dlesaac while its home page continues to proclaim that better information means better health http://www.hscic.gov.uk/ I thought there wasn't a complaints procedure, but I have just found it. http://www.hscic.gov.uk/article/1988/Making-a-complaint If you ar affected by the above you might want to consider using it. Alison Macfarlane School of Health Sciences City University London 20 Bartholomew Close West Smithfield, London EC1A 7QN Phone (0) (44) 207 040 5832 Fax (0) (44) 207 040 5717 Email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://www.city.ac.uk/health/staff-directory/alison-macfarlane This email and its contents are the property of City University London. If you are not the intended recipient of this message and any attached files, please delete it. Unauthorised copying or distribution of this message, its attachments or parts thereof, is strictly prohibited unless specifically stated otherwise. Please consider the environment before printing my email You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.