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Discover recognised published standards that help data work together for users in health and adult social care within England.

  • Published standard

    This information standard defines a set of Assessment, Discharge and Withdrawal (ADW) Notices to support compliance with the Care Act 2014.

    Status: Retired

    Date published: 2 Nov 2016

  • Published standard

    Defines how to encode NHS approved patient identifiers into a two-dimensional barcode.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 26 Mar 2020

  • Published standard

    Collects data on the number of people registered with local authorities as blind or partially sighted, the number of additions to these registers and the number of people on these registers recorded as having an additional disability.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 31 Jan 2023

  • Published standard

    Record the information that care home staff should see in a shared care record. Sharing this information between health and social care is critical to the wellbeing of people receiving care and to the professionals who care for them.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 12 Oct 2023

  • Published standard

    Captures the views of health and social care providers on the experience and impact of their interface with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), including  registration, monitoring and inspection.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 7 Mar 2022

  • Published standard

    A solution to share a specified data set between children's social care and health unscheduled care settings in order to help protect children at risk

    Status: Active

    Date published: 2 Jul 2020

  • Published standard

    Become a Spine Mini Service Provider (SMSP) giving access to data from the national child protection information sharing (CP-IS) database for an unscheduled care provider using our SMSP API standards.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 12 Oct 2023

  • Published standard

    Designed to help manufacturers of health IT software evidence the clinical safety of their products.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 7 Jun 2018

  • Published standard

    The Community Services Data Set (CSDS) is a patient level, output based, secondary uses data set about publicly funded Community Services.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 6 Jan 2022

  • Published standard

    Provides a set of requirements to ensure that all health and adult social care organisations in England can comply with the National data opt-out policy

    Status: Active

    Date published: 18 Mar 2019