Freedom to Speak Up data collection
The Freedom to Speak Up data collection is an aggregate, anonymous collection relating to NHS Freedom To Speak Up (FTSU) cases from FTSU Guardians across the NHS.
Contents
- Documentation
About this standard
- Publisher
- NHS England
- Reference code
- DAPB4132 Amd 48/2026
- Publication date
- 14 July 2026
- 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
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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.
- Contact point
england.standards.assurance@nhs.net
Using this standard
- Applies to
- NHS Trusts and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs)
- Effective from
- 14 July 2026
Topics and care settings
- Care setting
- GP / Primary care
- Hospital
Review Information
- Scope
- Mandated for NHS trusts and ICBs, and voluntary for primary care providers.
- Approval date
- 14 July 2026
- Technical Committee
Data Assurance Board (DAB)
Legal basis
- Legal authority
Other legal basis
s1(1), s2 and s1H NHS Act 2006 (2006 Act)
More information
The data collected provides insight into the confidence NHS staff have in the speaking up arrangements available to them, and what types of issues they are speaking up about. This supports NHS England’s role as a “prescribed person” under the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 2014, and the Prescribed Persons (Reports on Disclosures of Information) Regulations 2017 and will inform the NHS Oversight Framework. The strength and effectiveness of speaking up arrangements nationally will be assessed and the data collected supports the triangulation of potential concerns about individual organisations.
Page last updated: 09 September 2026