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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

    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

    Status: Active

    Date published: 3 Jul 2025

  • Published standard

    Record the information that care home staff should see in a shared care record. Sharing this information between health and social care is critical to the wellbeing of people receiving care and to the professionals who care for them.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 12 Oct 2023

  • Published standard

    A solution to share a specified data set between children's social care and health unscheduled care settings in order to help protect children at risk

    Status: Active

    Date published: 2 Jul 2020

  • Published standard

    A standard to improve the exchange of referral information from GPs to hospital consultants and other health care professionals providing outpatient services.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 12 Oct 2023

  • Published standard

    The core information standard defines a set of information that can potentially be shared between systems in different sites and settings, among professionals and people using services.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 12 Oct 2023

  • Published standard

    Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) is the Commissioning Data Set (CDS) Type for emergency care services.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 10 Jan 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

  • Published standard

    Manage GP practice appointments between different systems using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for health and care data exchange.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 12 Oct 2023

  • Published standard

    Data about general practice appointments to improve the understanding of capacity and utilisation in general practice.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 8 May 2024

  • Published standard

    Tracks the use of online appointments in General Practices and collects information on the availability to patients of electronic access to their test results, GP letters, prescriptions and online appointment booking facilities.

    Status: Retired

    Date published: 26 May 2021