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Discover recognised published standards that help data work together for users in health and adult social care within England.

  • Published standard

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

    Status: Active

    Date published: 26 Jun 2023

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    Provides a set of requirements to ensure that all health and adult social care organisations in England can comply with the National data opt-out policy

    Status: Active

    Date published: 18 Mar 2019

  • Published standard

    A surveillance scheme to evaluate the childhood immunisation programme in England, collating data for children aged 1, 2 and 5.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 6 Jan 2022

  • Published standard

    Long COVID assessment services data.

    Status: Retired

    Date added: 17 Jun 2024

  • 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: 18 Aug 2023

  • Published standard

    Defines the content, structure and management of electronic pathology reports between laboratories and General Practice.

    Status: Retired

    Date published: 7 Nov 2023

  • Published standard

    Use these API standards to share medication requests between Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA) systems and hospital pharmacy or stock control systems.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 12 Oct 2023

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    Defines a method for data submission about suspected adverse drug reactions via the Yellow Card Scheme by populating the majority of the Yellow Card submission from the patient's electronic record.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 26 Oct 2017

  • Published standard

    Allows doctors to give more information to patients about the functional effects of their health condition on their fitness for work, to help people return to work if appropriate.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 1 Mar 2023

  • Published standard

    Pass details of a new eye care referral from an Optometry Patient Management System (Optometry PMS) to an Eyecare Electronic Referral System (EeRS).

    Status: Active

    Date added: 12 Oct 2023