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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

    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

  • Published standard

    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 doctors to give more information to patients about the functional effects of their health condition on their fitness for work, to help people return to work if appropriate.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 1 Mar 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

    Epilepsy is not recorded or shared consistently across health and care. This standard has been developed to address challenges by setting out a nationally agreed, structured approach to recording and sharing epilepsy related information.

    Status: Draft in progress

    Date added: 13 Jan 2026

  • 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: 24 Mar 2026

  • Published standard

    The FGM-IS is a national IT system that supports the ongoing safeguarding of patients, under the age of 18, who have a family history of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

    Status: Active

    Date published: 6 Mar 2020

  • Published standard

    The Freedom to Speak Up data collection is an aggregate, anonymous collection relating to NHS Freedom To Speak Up (FTSU) cases from FTSU Guardians across the NHS.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 14 Jul 2026

  • Published standard

    Retired by the DAPB 15/07/2025 Feedback tool to support the fundamental principle that NHS service users should have the opportunity to provide feedback on their experience.

    Status: Retired

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025