Diagnostic Imaging Data Set
Detailed information collected about diagnostic imaging tests carried out on NHS patients.
About this standard
- Publisher
- NHS England
- Also known as
- DIDS
- Reference code
- SCCI1577 Amd 10/2011
- Publication date
- 05/10/2016
- 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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- Standard type
- Collections
- 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.
- Collection level
Record level
- Frequency
Dataset publication or collection occurs once a month.
- Contact point
Link to standard
- Documentation
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- Applies to
- Directly provided and/or commissioned providers of NHS imaging diagnostic tests
- All radiology departments
- Community-based providers of diagnostic services
- Independent sector providers / social enterprises
- Impacts on
- System suppliers of Radiology Information Systems should work with their customers to determine the impact of this information standard and any required changes.
- Associated medias
Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Data definitions and terminologies
- Tests and diagnostics
- Care setting
- Community health
- Hospital
Dependencies and related standards
- Dependencies
No known dependencies.
- Related standards
- Commissioning Data Sets ISB0092
- Interim Clinical Imaging Procedure Codes ISB0148
- Health and Social Care Organisation Reference Data DAPB0090
- NHS Number for General Practice ISB0149-01
- NHS Number for Secondary Care ISB0149-02
- SNOMED CT SCCI0034
- Commissioning Data Sets
Review Information
- Scope
- NHS Services
- Sponsor
Sue Hill, Chief Scientific Officer for England, NHS England
- Senior Responsible Officer
Matthew Fagg, Deputy Director, NHS England
- Business Lead
- Tia Cheang, Head of Secondary Care, NHS Digital
- Approval date
- 17/07/2016
- Post Implementation review Date
- 01/10/2017
Legal basis and endorsements
- Legal authority
Section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
This information standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
NHS standard contract
This collection is published under the NHS Standard Contract.
More information
The Diagnostic Imaging Data Set (DID) is a central collection of detailed information about diagnostic imaging tests carried out on NHS patients, extracted and submitted monthly. The data set captures information about referral source and patient type; details of the test (type of test and body site); demographic information such as GP registered practice, patient postcode, ethnicity, gender and date of birth; plus items about waiting times for each diagnostic imaging event, from time of test request through to time of reporting.
The data set is collected at patient level and includes patient identifiers to enable linkage to other data sets, most notably cancer registration data. Combined, these data items give powerful information about access of NHS patients to diagnostic imaging tests across the country.
The initial release of this information standard was published by ISB in March 2012. In April 2014, SCCI replaced ISB; it makes recommendation to the Department of Health and / or NHS England on the publication of information standards. In this instance, SCCI has worked with the developer to assure that this information standard is fit to be published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 without making changes to the content of the information standard.
This is a conversion of an existing standard under the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Full conformance is expected to be in place already.
The standard only relates to diagnostic imaging tests recorded in Radiology Information Systems (RIS).
Conformance
This is a conversion of an existing standard under the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Full conformance is expected to be in place already.
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