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

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    Monitored both the waiting times of people commencing treatment and those waiting for treatment.

    Status: Retired

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

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    Defines the content, structure and management of electronic pathology reports between laboratories and General Practice.

    Status: Retired

    Date published: 7 Nov 2023

  • Published standard

    Use these API standards to share medication requests between Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA) systems and hospital pharmacy or stock control systems.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

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    Defines a method for data submission about suspected adverse drug reactions via the Yellow Card Scheme by populating the majority of the Yellow Card submission from the patient's electronic record.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 26 Oct 2017

  • Published standard

    Allows fit notes to be issued electronically by a range of healthcare professionals in secondary care.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 10 Nov 2022

  • Published standard

    Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) is the Commissioning Data Set (CDS) Type for emergency care services.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 10 Jan 2023

  • Published standard

    API standards to enable sharing and updating of digital end of life care (EoLC) records.

    Status: In_development

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Published standard

    Collects information relating to the costs of providing, maintaining and servicing the NHS estate of all NHS organisations in England providing NHS-funded secondary care.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 4 Apr 2022

  • Published standard

    Pass details of a new eye care referral from an Optometry Patient Management System (Optometry PMS) to an Eyecare Electronic Referral System (EeRS).

    Status: Active

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Published standard

    The Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Enhanced Data Set requires organisations to record, collect and return detailed information about FGM within the patient population, as treated by the NHS in England.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 1 Apr 2015