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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

    Record the most important details that a person wants to share with professionals in health and social care, for example how best to communicate with the person, how to help them feel at ease or details about how they like to take their medication.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 2 Dec 2025

  • Published standard

    Enables key aspects of the provision of adult social care services across England to be assessed at both national and local level.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 6 Apr 2023

  • Published standard

    Collects information on the Deferred Payment Agreements (DPAs) that Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs) have arranged with clients to help with the payment of the costs of their care.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 17 Sep 2021

  • Published standard

    The Adult Social Care Record Minimum Operational Data Standard (MODS) exists to ensure a consistent baseline record of direct care data by CQC registered adult social care providers.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 31 Mar 2025

  • Published standard

    Enables the interchange of monthly aggregate contract monitoring data between commissioners and providers of healthcare in a uniform format.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 14 Mar 2025

  • Published standard

    Support transfer of care from hospital to social services for patients with care and support needs using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for health and care data exchange.

    Status: Deprecated

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • 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: 2 Dec 2025