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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

    A compilation of terminology resources used in adult social care. Note that this is NOT a data standard or a controlled vocabulary; it is a repository containing the descriptions of commonly used business terms within the adult social care sector.

    Status: In_development

    Date published: 8 Mar 2023

  • Published standard

    OPCS-4 is a statistical classification for clinical coding of hospital interventions and procedures undertaken by the NHS.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 1 Nov 2022

  • Published standard

    A comprehensive classification of causes of morbidity and mortality which is published by the World Health Organization (WHO).

    Status: Active

    Date published: 18 Sep 2015

  • Published standard

    Mandates the collection of contraceptive activity data from sexual and reproductive health services.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 29 Jun 2017

  • Published standard

    The Data Security and Protection (DSP) Toolkit is an online tool that enables relevant organisations to measure their performance against the data security and information governance requirements mandated by the Department of Health and Social Care.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 30 Sep 2024

  • Published standard

    Sharing discharge information between Emergency Care and GP practices is essential for ensuring patient safety and good ongoing treatment.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 2 Dec 2025

  • Published standard

    This guide is to be used across NHS England FHIR Release 4 Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) when implementing Medicines.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Future standard

    When the CQC receives information relating to safeguarding people, it is recorded as an alert or as a concern.

    Status:

    Date added: 9 Dec 2022

  • Published standard

    The Community Services Data Set (CSDS) is a patient level, output based, secondary uses data set about publicly funded Community Services.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 6 Jan 2022

  • Future standard

    The main goal for the PCDS is to ensure consistency, improve interoperability and increase efficiency across GP systems for a migration.

    Status: Draft in progress

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

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