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Notes on the index

How the public record is held, and how a join is made. Not a newsroom. Not a finding about a named person.

18 August 2026

Published is not the same as findable

UK public bodies already publish minutes, spend and registers. The gap is access: image PDFs, split portals, and joins that nobody can make by hand.

18 August 2026

What Institrace holds on the NHS

England ODS codes, NHSBSA invoices, Trust Accounts Consolidation, the NHSBSA contract register, and board papers once a trust site is tracked. Not patient data. Not one mixed table.

18 August 2026

An ODS code is the join, not the trust name

NHS bodies change names, merge, and share similar titles. Institrace joins directory rows, invoices, accounts and papers on the Organisation Data Service code. A supplier name is not a company number.

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