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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

    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: 10 Oct 2024

  • 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: 28 Nov 2025

  • 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

    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

    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

  • Published standard

    The Data Security and Protection (DSP) Toolkit is an online tool that enables relevant organisations to measure their performance against the data security and information governance requirements mandated by the Department of Health and Social Care.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 30 Sep 2024

  • Published standard

    Enables the interchange of monthly patient level device contract monitoring data in a uniform format to enable national consistency of the flow of cost and activity information from providers to commissioners.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 8 Apr 2021

  • Published standard

    Defines the information needed to support a person's diabetes management and care. The sub-set, the Diabetes Self-Management Information Standard, is included.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 6 Apr 2023

  • Published standard

    This standard relates to direct patient care, describing the optimal data structure and format of a maternity record.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 31 Mar 2025