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This is one of a set of standards introduced by NHS England, initially on a voluntary basis, to enable national consistency of the flow of cost and activity information from providers to commissioners.

eDischarge summary

The eDischarge Summary Standard enables hospitals to safely transfer standardised clinical information which can be extracted directly into GP IT systems, when a patient is discharged from hospital care.

Use these API standards to share medication requests between Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA) systems and hospital pharmacy or stock control systems.

Adult Social Care Digital Social Care Record Minimum Operational Data Specification

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

An information standard for maternity services, to ensure that maternity record information is consistently captured and as a result can be shared more easily across health care systems.

Notify a patient's registered GP practice about health and care services delivered at a pharmacy using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for health and care data exchange.

Standardised dictionary of medicines licensed in the United Kingdom for use in the NHS.

Share information about a child's health between healthcare professionals using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for health and care data exchange.

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

DICOM is the international standard to transmit, store, retrieve, print, process, and display medical imaging information.

Enables the interchange of monthly patient level device contract monitoring data in a uniform format to enable national consistency of the flow of cost and activity information from providers to commissioners.