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The Palliative and End of Life Care Standard ensures professionals and individuals have the right information to support decision making and aligns with the Universal Principles for Advance Care Planning.

Gives a framework for clinicians to record the clinical assessment, observations and treatments given.

Care record standard to carry the information required for the care and support of a person when they are admitted to hospital from a care home in an emergency.

Establishes consistency in the creation and issue of transfer of care acute inpatient discharge documents from acute trusts to GP Practice systems.

Enables social prescribing support provision to be recorded, amended and maintained collaboratively between patients, link workers and health and care professionals.

Allows the sharing of care plans between patients, carers and all involved health and care professionals.

Allows clinical information to be recorded, exchanged and accessed consistently across care settings for digital outpatient letters.

Defines a core set of patient level (non-identifiable) information to be returned to the Department of Health to enable monitoring against Key Performance Indicators identified for the NHS Health Check programme.

A care record standard for information sharing so professionals can provide continuity of care when an adult is discharged from mental health services.

Data to improve the visibility of demand and capacity across health services at all levels from system to regional to national.