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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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    To ensure disabled people and people with impairments or sensory loss: - can access and understand information about NHS and adult social care services - receive the communication support they need to use those services

    Status: Active

    Date published: 3 Jul 2025

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    Details the vaccination coverage for the secondary school-setting national immunisation programmes for human papillomavirus (HPV), tetanus/low dose diphtheria/inactivated polio (Td/IPV) and meningococcal bacteria A, C, W and Y (MenACWY).

    Status: Active

    Date published: 25 Aug 2022

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    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

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    Enables person-centred, sustainable innovation for adult social care by specifying a client level, core data set to capture adult social care activity across England.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 18 Oct 2022

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    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

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    Ensures a consistent baseline recording of direct care data by Care Quality Commission (CQC) registered adult social care providers.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 15 Apr 2024

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    Collects council level financial data to allow the calculation of unit costs, income and expenditure for adult social care at a national and council level.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 30 Sep 2019

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    Collects information about the social care workforce in England obtained from all Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs).

    Status: Active

    Date published: 5 Nov 2019

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    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

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    Assists the delivery of the Alcohol Dependence Programme, which includes service improvement for hospital Alcohol Care Teams supporting alcohol-dependent inpatients.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 28 Jan 2022