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

  • Future standard

    DSC Needs exists to provide a consistent terminology for Needs in the Minimum Operational Dataset and has been collated from existing terminologies including the LGA, NHS Data Dictionary and PRSB.

    Status: Draft in progress

    Date published: 1 Nov 2022

  • Future standard

    DSC Risks exists to provide a consistent terminology for Risks in the Minimum Operational Dataset and has been collated from existing terminologies including the LGA, NHS Data Dictionary and PRSB.

    Status: Draft in progress

    Date published: 30 Jan 2023

  • Published standard

    Monitored both the waiting times of people commencing treatment and those waiting for treatment.

    Status: Retired

    Date added: 28 Nov 2025

  • 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: 28 Nov 2025

  • Published standard

    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

    Allows fit notes to be issued electronically by a range of healthcare professionals in secondary care.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 10 Nov 2022

  • 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

    Sharing discharge information between Emergency Care and GP practices is essential for ensuring patient safety and good ongoing treatment.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 2 Dec 2025

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