NHS Health Check
Defines a core set of patient level (non-identifiable) information to be returned to the Department of Health to enable monitoring against Key Performance Indicators identified for the NHS Health Check programme.
About this standard
- Publisher
- Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
- Reference code
- ISB1080 Amd 33/2011
- Publication date
- 08/12/2011
- 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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- Applies to
- Suppliers of clinical systems to commissioners and providers of NHS Health Checks
- Commissioned providers of NHS Health Checks including alternate service providers such as pharmacies
- Organisations purchasing new systems to support implementation of NHS Health Checks
- Associated medias
- Effective from
- 01/07/2012
Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Key care information
- Reference data
- Care setting
- Community health
- Pharmacy
Review Information
- Scope
- The primary users of the standard are clinical system suppliers who provide data extracts.
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 standard supports the extraction of comparable data from clinical systems used by commissioned providers of the NHS Health Check and the flow of these data to a central data repository. With appropriate safeguards, information extracted using the standard can be used locally to plan, commission, monitor and improve NHS Health Check services.
The standard encompasses: anonymised demographic data; a limited set of clinical observations including the person’s NHS Health Check risk score result; a limited set of health interventions such as signposting to relevant activities/services.
This standard does not specify all the data that would be recorded about individuals who access the NHS Health Check programme. Exchange of information among providers and commissioners in support of managing NHS Health Checks pathway is also out of scope. This includes electronic communication between general practices and alternate service providers of NHS Health Checks such as pharmacies.
About this change
Minor Amendments to Align Data Set and XML Schema
The NHS Health Check dataset and the XML schema have been amended to correct the alignment between the dataset and the released XML schema.
Changes made are:
- 11100330 - SMOKING STATUS CODE (Person Observation Section), attribute for “Unknown” value should be “Z” (not 9) as per national mandated code.
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