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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

    Request laboratory tests and send the results back to the requester, usually the patient's GP or consultant.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Published standard

    Send cervical screening test results from the screening system to GP practices using the Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport (EDIFACT) standard.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Future standard

    The SALT data collection is a set of measures relating to requests for social care support and provision of short term support and service users and carers receiving eligible support

    Status: Proposed

    Date published: 1 May 2021

  • Published standard

    Become a Spine Mini Service Provider (SMSP) giving access to data from the national child protection information sharing (CP-IS) database for an unscheduled care provider using our SMSP API standards.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Future standard

    Each year NHS Digital carry out user surveys to get feedback from service users. Survey information is gathered by councils with social services responsibility, and these pages contain guidance for them.

    Status: Proposed

    Date published: 5 Aug 2020

  • Published standard

    A catalogue of the UK naming Uniform Resource Locators which act as a well known "name" for the type of another concept, such as an NHS Number or a SNOMED CT code.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 24 Oct 2023

  • Published standard

    An interoperability standard between patient record systems that enables booking and referral information to be sent between NHS healthcare system providers quickly, safely and in a format that is useful to clinicians.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 13 Apr 2023

  • 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

    ***RETIRED*** This information is now collected via the Mental Health Services Dataset (MHSDS). Captures details of Out of Area Placements in mental health services in England from both NHS and independent providers.

    Status: Retired

    Date published: 4 Nov 2021

  • Published standard

    This is one of a set of standards introduced by NHS England, initially on a voluntary basis, to enable national consistency of the flow of cost and activity information from providers to commissioners.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 8 Apr 2021

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