National Drug and Alcohol Treatment Monitoring System Data Set
Collects person level, patient identifiable data from drug and alcohol treatment providers at a national level.
About this standard
- Publisher
- NHS England
- Also known as
- NDTMS
- NDTMS Core dataset R
- Reference code
- DAPB0107 Amd 43/2023
- Publication date
- 11/01/2024
- Status
- Active
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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.
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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
- Community services\u0027 drug and alcohol treatment providers including NHS, third sector and private providers
- Residential rehabs and detox centres which provide drug and alcohol treatment services
- Primary care providers of drug and alcohol treatment services
- Inpatient units which provide drug and alcohol treatment services
- Secure settings e.g. prisons, Young Offender Institutions, Secure Training Centres providing drug and alcohol treatment services
- Secure children’s homes and welfare only homes which provide drug and alcohol treatment services
- Immigration Removal Centres which provide drug and alcohol treatment services
- Impacts on
- Implementation of this information standard impacts all health and social care IT systems suppliers providing systems to the above providers; suppliers should work with their customers to determine necessary changes.
- Associated medias
- Conformance date
- 30/06/2024
- Effective from
- 11/01/2024
Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Adult
- Child
- Data definitions and terminologies
- Government
- Health
- Care setting
- Care home
- Community health
- GP / Primary care
- Hospital
- Prison
- Social care
Dependencies and related standards
- Dependencies
No known dependencies.
- Related standards
No known related standards.
Review Information
- Scope
- Health Services, NHS Services, Adult Social Care
- Sponsor
Rosanna O’Connor, Director, Addictions & Inclusion, Department of Health and Social Care
- Senior Responsible Officer
Rosanna O’Connor, Director, Addictions & Inclusion, Department of Health and Social Care
- Business Lead
- Paul Tansley, NDTMS Programme Manager, Department of Health and Social Care
- Approval date
- 19/12/2023
- Post Implementation review Date
- 30/06/2025
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
More information
The NDTMS dataset collates information on drug and alcohol treatment in England.
NDTMS data helps drug and alcohol treatment providers and commissioners demonstrate the outcomes treatment achieves and in doing so aids accountability for the money invested in it.
NDTMS is a national standard and is applicable to young people and adults within community and secure setting based treatment providers.
NDTMS data are used to:
- Provide measurements that support the outcome and recovery focus of the government’s drug strategy
- Provide information which can be used to monitor how effective drug and alcohol treatment services are and help to plan and develop services that better meet local needs
- Produce statistics and support research about drug and alcohol use and treatment
- Provide measures to support the Public Health Outcomes Framework.
Substance misuse treatment providers have been reporting drug and alcohol treatment data to Regional Drug Misuse Databases (RDMDs) since the late 1980s. The National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) was established in 2004 as a central repository for this data collection. NDTMS moved into Public Health England (PHE) in 2013. In October 2021, NDTMS moved into the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) within the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). The dataset is termed Core Dataset R (CDS-R) and will be implemented in April 2024.
Data are submitted to NDTMS by providers using the NDTMS V2 web portal.
The data outputs will be used by:
- Treatment providers including third sector, NHS and private providers
- Treatment commissioners including local authority commissioners and NHS England commissioners
- Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
About this change
In order to align current business needs and clinical practice and to support data quality, various changes have been made to the dataset as follows:
- 45 new data items have been added
- 111 data items have been removed.
- Adult Drug community dataset (AD) – 20 new, 16 removed
- Young People community dataset (YP) – 16 new, 17 removed
- Secure estate adult dataset (SA) – 7 new, 24 removed
- Secure estate young people dataset – 2 new, 54 removed.
Page last updated: 03 May 2024