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

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    Retired by the DAPB on 31/03/2024. Supports the monitoring of asymptomatic testing of front-line NHS staff in NHS trusts to inform NHS England about the flow of tests to staff, their use and resulting staff absence.

    Status: Retired

    Date published: 23 Dec 2020

  • Published standard

    Long COVID assessment services data.

    Status: Retired

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

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    Supported the monitoring and reporting against clearance of the NHS Continuing healthcare assessments deferred due to the coronavirus pandemic.

    Status: Retired

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • Published standard

    Allows the close monitoring of hospital discharge performance data.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 15 Sep 2020

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    A return collected from the Independent Sector (IS) on behalf of NHS England which collects data on activity carried out in the IS to support the NHS COVID-19 response.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 4 Nov 2021

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    Requires NHS commissioned community inpatient service providers to provide data on bed occupancy, discharges and onward patient care setting following discharge.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 12 Oct 2023

  • Published standard

    Designed to help NHS England understand the status of Community Health Services which were stopped or partially stopped in 2020 as part of the national NHS response to coronavirus (COVID-19).

    Status: Active

    Date published: 25 Mar 2021

  • 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

    Obtains data for indicators used to assess the compliance of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) with a number of requirements of the revised statutory guidance on managing conflicts of interest for CCGs.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 2 Jul 2018

  • Published standard

    Monitors consultant-led referral to treatment (RTT) waiting times.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 11 Mar 2021