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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

    Enables comprehensive collection of robust data from laboratories on all chlamydia testing carried out in England, in order to estimate population screening coverage rates at local level.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 17 Dec 2014

  • Published standard

    API standards to support the triage and onward referral of patients who are interacting with Urgent and Emergency Care services, such as NHS 111.

    Status: In_development

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Published standard

    A standard to improve the exchange of referral information from GPs to hospital consultants and other health care professionals providing outpatient services.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 2 Dec 2025

  • Published standard

    Prepared by the NHS Digital Clinical Safety team, this standard is designed to help health and care organisations assure the clinical safety of their health IT systems.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 7 Jun 2018

  • 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

    Aims to confirm that providers of relevant NHS services are achieving their current agreed Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) performance targets.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 6 Apr 2023

  • Published standard

    Nine Common User Interface standards to allow for a common interface for healthcare IT systems.

    Status: Deprecated

    Date published: 4 Jul 2019

  • 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

  • Published standard

    Monitors consultant-led referral to treatment (RTT) waiting times.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 11 Mar 2021

  • Published standard

    The core information standard defines a set of information that can potentially be shared between systems in different sites and settings, among professionals and people using services.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 2 Dec 2025