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The Palliative and End of Life Care Standard ensures professionals and individuals have the right information to support decision making and aligns with the Universal Principles for Advance Care Planning.

Specifies the core content to be held in electronic palliative care co-ordination systems (EPaCCS).

Supports the interoperable sharing of pathology reports from laboratories to Primary Care for the purpose of direct care.

Defines a specification to enable the exchange of pathology laboratory data.

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

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

Forms the basis of sharing pathology test requests and results for all of England.

A specification for the clear and unambiguous display of patient information on an NHS patient identity band.

Provides patient level detail as one of a set of standards introduced by NHS England to enable national consistency of the flow of cost and activity information from providers to commissioners.

Part of a set of two collections for patient-level costing, which provide a consistent approach to reporting cost information at patient level.