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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

    Covers data on board vacancies and commercial spend (the cost for Trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) to have executive director vacancies filled) in the NHS in England.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 26 May 2021

  • Published standard

    Send bowel cancer screening test results from the screening system to GP practices using the Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport (EDIFACT) standard.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Published standard

    Supports the Better Care Fund programme across the NHS and local government, which seeks to join up health and care services, so people can manage their own health and wellbeing, and live independently in their communities for as long as possible.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 14 May 2019

  • Published standard

    Defines the process for the notification of births, in particular the message set based on the NHS Number for Babies (NN4B) service.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 11 Jul 2014

  • Published standard

    Collects data on the number of people registered with local authorities as blind or partially sighted, the number of additions to these registers and the number of people on these registers recorded as having an additional disability.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 31 Jan 2023

  • Published standard

    Defines how to encode NHS approved patient identifiers into a two-dimensional barcode.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 26 Mar 2020

  • Published standard

    Collects the total number of available bed days and the total number of occupied bed days by consultant main specialty.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 14 Dec 2017

  • Published standard

    Retired by the DAPB on 01/04/2024. Holds data on the number of referral to treatment (RTT) completed pathways and incomplete pathways for Direct Access Audiology (DAA).

    Status: Retired

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Published standard

    Provides the specification and implementation guidance for achieving accurate Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) using GS1 international code numbering standards.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 14 Apr 2022

  • Published standard

    This dataset monitors the progress of moving people with a learning disability, autism or both to community settings.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 31 Aug 2023