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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

    Supports the development of The Model Mental Health productivity metrics for mental health services delivered in the community.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 10 Feb 2020

  • Published standard

    Collect details of children and adults in contact with mental health and wellbeing services to meet national reporting requirements.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 6 Jul 2023

  • Published standard

    The number of patients on Care Programme Approach followed up within 7 days of discharge from psychiatric inpatient care, and the number of inpatient admissions gate kept by Crisis Resolution Home Treatment teams.

    Status: Retired

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Published standard

    Sets out definitions to be used when a health professional sends or receives patient medication and allergy/intolerance information by computer system between care locations.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 30 Sep 2021

  • Published standard

    Supports the medical revalidation process by which the General Medical Council (GMC) confirms the continuation of a doctor’s licence to practise in the UK.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 30 Sep 2019

  • Published standard

    The national information standard for data relating to NHS-funded maternity services.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 14 Sep 2018

  • Published standard

    Provides NHS England (NHSE) regions and their maternity and neonatal services with daily data required to facilitate the arrangement of mutual aid in line with an agreed Operational Pressures Escalation Level (OPEL) framework.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Published standard

    Supports performance improvement by giving boards and systems visibility of the constraints that may be producing discharge delays and supports escalation.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 31 May 2019

  • Published standard

    API standards for a set of generic messaging components which use the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for health and care data exchange version STU 3 to create a unified approach to NHS message and document flows across England.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Published standard

    API standards for a set of messaging components using Health Level Seven Version 2 ( HL7 V2) and Version 3 (HL7 V3).

    Status: Deprecated

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025