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.

Record the most important details that a person wants to share with professionals in health and social care, for example how best to communicate with the person, how to help them feel at ease or details about how they like to take their medication.

To ensure disabled people and people with impairments or sensory loss: - can access and understand information about NHS and adult social care services - receive the communication support they need to use those services

Details the vaccination coverage for the secondary school-setting national immunisation programmes for human papillomavirus (HPV), tetanus/low dose diphtheria/inactivated polio (Td/IPV) and meningococcal bacteria A, C, W and Y (MenACWY).

Enables key aspects of the provision of adult social care services across England to be assessed at both national and local level.

Enables person-centred, sustainable innovation for adult social care by specifying a client level, core data set to capture adult social care activity across England.

Collects information on the Deferred Payment Agreements (DPAs) that Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs) have arranged with clients to help with the payment of the costs of their care.

Ensures a consistent baseline recording of direct care data by Care Quality Commission (CQC) registered adult social care providers.

Enables the interchange of monthly aggregate contract monitoring data between commissioners and providers of healthcare in a uniform format.

Assists the delivery of the Alcohol Dependence Programme, which includes service improvement for hospital Alcohol Care Teams supporting alcohol-dependent inpatients.