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Accessible Information

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

Care homes view of shared care records

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.

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

Clinical referral information

A standard to improve the exchange of referral information from GPs to hospital consultants and other health care professionals providing outpatient services.

Core information 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.

Emergency Care Data Set

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

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

Manage GP practice appointments between different systems using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for health and care data exchange.

Data about general practice appointments to improve the understanding of capacity and utilisation in general practice.

Tracks the use of online appointments in General Practices and collects information on the availability to patients of electronic access to their test results, GP letters, prescriptions and online appointment booking facilities.