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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

    Monitors written complaints received by NHS primary care providers, both GP and dental practices.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Published standard

    Allows the close monitoring of hospital discharge performance data.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 15 Sep 2020

  • Published standard

    An audit to support delivery on improved patient care in primary care.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 4 May 2020

  • Future standard

    The Information Standard will ensure standardised data of high quality is regularly collected and can be used effectively to risk assess NHS Health Check attendees.

    Status: Draft in progress

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Future standard

    The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) data collection gathers information on all DoLS applications in England on an annual basis.

    Status: Proposed

    Date published: 20 Apr 2020

  • Published standard

    Specialist Advice facilitates expert clinical input into patient care prior to or instead of referral, enabling patient care to be managed in the most appropriate setting to avoid unnecessary outpatient referrals.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 24 Aug 2021

  • Published standard

    Combines data from Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems to follow and understand patient journeys from the ambulance service into other urgent and emergency healthcare settings.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 9 Feb 2024

  • Future standard

    The Person Circumstance List is a listing of the various conditions connected with or affecting a person. It is often measurable and forms part of statistical data collected about individuals or groups.

    Status: Awaiting approval

    Date published: 26 Aug 2022

  • Future standard

    Subset of LGA Circumstances.

    Status:

    Date published: 13 Apr 2022

  • 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

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