COVID-19 NHS Weekly Activity Return
Information required by the NHS to understand the demands COVID-19 is placing across the health care sector nationally.
Contents
- Documentation
About this standard
- Publisher
- NHS England
- Also known as
- COVID-19: NHS Weekly Activity Return (WAR)
- Reference code
- DAPB3142
- Status
- Active
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Active. Active standards are stable, maintained and have been approved, assured or endorsed for use by qualified bodies.
Deprecated Deprecated standards are available for use and are maintained, but are being phased out, so new functionality will not be added.
Retired standards Retired standards are not being maintained or supported and should not be used.
- Standard type
- Collections
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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.
- Collection level
Aggregate level
- Frequency
Dataset publication or collection occurs once a week.
- Contact point
Using this standard
- Applies to
- NHS acute trusts
- NHS ambulance trusts
- NHS community and mental health trusts
- NHS commissioned independent hospitals
- NHS commissioned community inpatient service providers
- NHS community health service providers
- Is part of
Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Service
- Care setting
- Ambulance (Urgent and Emergency Care)
- Community health
- Hospital
- Mental health
- Urgent and Emergency Care
Dependencies and related standards
- Related standards
- COVID-19 Independent Sector Provider Weekly Activity Situation Report DCB3139
- COVID-19 Community Health Services Situation Report DAPB3132
- COVID-19 NHS Staff Lateral Flow Testing DCB3137
- COVID-19 Daily Discharge Situation Report DCB3129
- COVID-19 Community Daily Discharge Situation Report DAPB3136
- COVID-19 NHS Continuing Healthcare Deferred Assessments Situation Report DCB3127 (Retired)
- COVID-19 Independent Sector Provider Weekly Activity Situation Report
Review Information
- Scope
- NHS acute trusts, NHS ambulance trusts, NHS community and mental health trusts, NHS commissioned independent hospitals, NHS commissioned community inpatient service providers and NHS community health service providers.
- Technical Committee
Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)
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.
Section 259 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
NHS standard contract
Page last updated: 06 June 2024