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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

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

    Status: Active

    Date added: 2 Dec 2025

  • Published standard

    Details of all breast implant procedures completed in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland by both the NHS and private providers.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Future standard

    Local government is responsible for a range of vital services for people and businesses in defined areas. Among them are well known functions such as social care, schools, housing and planning and waste collection, but also lesser known ones such as licensing, business support, registrar services and pest control.

    Status: Proposed

    Date published: 16 May 2019

  • Future standard

    The NHS Data Model and Dictionary provides a reference point for approved Information Standards Notices to support health care activities within the NHS in England. It has been developed for everyone who is actively involved in the collection of data and the management of information in the NHS.

    Status: Proposed

    Date published: 1 Mar 2022

  • Published standard

    Defines data elements and values to meet information needs for the management of patients undergoing cataract surgery and provides data for secondary purposes.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 7 Apr 2010

  • Future standard

    DSC Risks exists to provide a consistent terminology for Risks in the Minimum Operational Dataset and has been collated from existing terminologies including the LGA, NHS Data Dictionary and PRSB.

    Status: Draft in progress

    Date published: 30 Jan 2023

  • Future standard

    DSC Needs exists to provide a consistent terminology for Needs in the Minimum Operational Dataset and has been collated from existing terminologies including the LGA, NHS Data Dictionary and PRSB.

    Status: Draft in progress

    Date published: 1 Nov 2022

  • Published standard

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

    Status: Active

    Date published: 22 Dec 2021

  • Published standard

    An international standard for clinical terminology published by SNOMED International and providing a global common language for health terms.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 2 Nov 2016

  • Published standard

    Transfer patients' electronic health records, securely and quickly, between their old and new practices when they change GPs using the Health Level Seven Version 3 (HL7 V3) standard.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

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