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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.

  • Future standard

    Standardise/reduce unwarranted variation in the documentation of a nursing assessment in hospital, community, and nursing homes and share this information across health and care.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 2 Dec 2025

  • Published standard

    This standard relates to direct patient care, describing the optimal data structure and format of a maternity record.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 31 Mar 2025

  • Published standard

    The core information standard defines a set of information that can potentially be shared between systems in different sites and settings, among professionals and people using services.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 2 Dec 2025

  • Published standard

    The community pharmacy standard supports information sharing between community pharmacists and GP practices.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 26 Jun 2023

  • Published standard

    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.

    Status: Deprecated

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Published standard

    API standards to enable sharing of patients' vital signs and National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) scores between systems and across care boundaries, using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for health and care data exchange.

    Status: Deprecated

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Future standard

    The Needs list identifies the personal requirements of a citizen that can be fulfilled within the bounds of public sector service delivery whereby a course of action might support a positive change in circumstances. Use - By identifying “Need” it is possible to group services and delivery agents together in order to resolve issues, problems and concerns raised by the citizen in a particular demographic target group. It uses unique numeric identifiers for each “Need” irrespective of the language and naming conventions that are used by different people and organisations to identify or describe a Need.

    Status: Awaiting approval

    Date published: 28 Jul 2017

  • Published standard

    Requires NHS commissioned community inpatient service providers to provide data on bed occupancy, discharges and onward patient care setting following discharge.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 12 Oct 2023

  • Future standard

    Subset of LGA Circumstances.

    Status:

    Date published: 13 Apr 2022

  • Published standard

    These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities, are an international standard and ensure your website or mobile app will meet public sector accessibility legal requirements.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 5 Oct 2023

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