Ambulance Electronic Patient Report
Defines the minimum clinical information that ambulance staff record in electronic systems for all patients who receive an NHS emergency ambulance response in England.
About this standard
- Publisher
- NHS England
- Also known as
- AEPR standard
- Reference code
- ISB 1516 Amd 48/2010
- Publication date
- 24/06/2011
- Publication version
- 1.0.0
- Status
- Active
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Active. Active standards are stable, maintained and have been approved, assured or endorsed for use by qualified bodies.
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Retired standards Retired standards are not being maintained or supported and should not be used.
- Standard type
- Information standards
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Collections. A Collection is a systematic gathering of a specified selection of data or information for a particular stated purpose from existing records held within health and care systems and electronic devices.
Extractions. An extraction is a type of collection that is pulled from an operational system by the data controller and transmitted to the receiver without additional processing or transcription by the sender.
Information standards. Information standards are agreed ways of doing something, written down as a set of precise criteria so they can be used as rules, guidelines, or definitions.
Technical Standards and specifications. Technical standards and specifications specify how to make information available technically including how the data is structured and transported.
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- Applies to
- Ambulance trusts specifying contracts for purchase of ambulance electronic patient report systems
- Ambulance personnel, administrative and managerial staff of ambulance trusts
- Suppliers of Patient Record systems for ambulance services
- Impacts on
- Ambulance trusts and personnel and suppliers of Patient Record systems for ambulance services
- Effective from
- 30/06/2012
Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Data definitions and terminologies
- Interoperability
- Key care information
- Care setting
- Ambulance (Urgent and Emergency Care)
Dependencies and related standards
- Related standards
- Common User Interface standards ISB 1500-1507: User Interface standards for entry and display of: Patient name, address, telephone number, sex and gender, NHS number; Date; Time; Patient banner. (Deprecated)
- Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Manufacture of Health IT Systems DCB0129
- Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Deployment and Use of Health IT Systems DCB0160
- Common User Interface standards
Legal basis and endorsements
- Legal authority
Section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
This standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
More information
The standard's purpose is to improve the comparability and consistency of the information that is recorded by ambulance staff and of the information that is passed to emergency departments and other healthcare providers by ambulance trusts. With appropriate safeguards, information recorded using the standard is also used to plan, monitor and improve ambulance services.
The standard encompasses: details of the incident, details of the ambulance crew, patient details, details of the complaint (i.e. the injury or problem), information about what assessment and treatment is given by the ambulance personnel (including particular categories for trauma and cardiac incidents), information about the drugs administered, medical history, pain score, which hospital the patient is taken to, or whether the patient is treated at the scene, etc. The majority of fields are mandatory for all patients; some are conditional i.e. mandatory if the condition applies (e.g. for cardiac or trauma patients) Local additions can be made for other data considered relevant to the service.
The standard does not include data on distances travelled, the type of vehicle used, or other information about the ambulance vehicle. Electronic exchange of information with systems such as those in emergency department, general practices and personal demographics service are outside the scope of this initial standard.
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