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Discover recognised published and future standards that help data work together for users in health and adult social care within England.

  • Published standard

    This standard supports the Booking and Referral Standard programme (BaRS). The standard defines the information that should be shared from 111 or 999 services when a person is referred onto another service.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 2 Dec 2025

  • Published standard

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

    Status: Active

    Date published: 15 Apr 2024

  • Published standard

    Defines the minimum clinical information that ambulance staff record in electronic systems for all patients who receive an NHS emergency ambulance response in England.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 24 Jun 2011

  • Published standard

    API standards to provide a structured way to record dosage instructions between primary and secondary care settings.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Published standard

    Defines the content, structure and management of electronic pathology reports between laboratories and General Practice.

    Status: Retired

    Date published: 7 Nov 2023

  • Future standard

    Defines a set of Health Level Seven (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Release 4 (R4) profiles to support the exchange of genetic testing requests and results.

    Status: Draft in progress

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Future standard

    This document outlines the design principles and the service and standards requirements to enable an interoperable system for genomic surveillance.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 1 Jan 2023

  • Published standard

    Developed to allow patients to view their current prescriptions, request a new instance of their current prescriptions and cancel a prescription request.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Published standard

    A national initiative to provide Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) between national health applications and GP Practices operating throughout England and Wales.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Published standard

    Health Level 7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (HL7 FHIR) is a standard for health care data exchange, published by HL7®.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 30 Oct 2019