Anonymisation Standard for Publishing Health and Social Care Data
This process standard for publishing health and social care data provides an agreed and standardised approach to anonymisation.
About this standard
- Owner
- NHS Digital
- Status
- Active
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Active standards are stable, maintained and have been assured or endorsed for use by qualified bodies.
Standards in development are APIs or API standards in alpha or beta, meaning they are available for use but are still in progress and may change.
Deprecated standards are older versions of a standard which are being phased out.
Retired standards are not being maintained and should not be used.
- Standard type
- Information codes of practice
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Record standards define what information to collect and how to format it, for example when registering a new patient.
Data definitions and terminologies define the format of individual data items so they can be consistently represented, for example dates or medication names. Reference sets and controlled lists are also included.
Technical standards and specifications specify how to make information available technically including how the data is structured and transported.
Information codes of practice are legal or best practice guidelines on how information should be handled.
- Contact details
- standards.assurance@nhs.net
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Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Information governance
- Care setting
- Community health
- Dentistry
- Hospital
- Maternity
- Mental health
- Patient
- Pharmacy
- GP / Primary care
- Transport / Infrastructure
- Social care
- Urgent and Emergency Care
Dependencies and related standards
- Dependencies
No known dependencies
- Related standards
- ISB 1512 Amd 159/2010 Information Governance Framework (retired)
- ISB 0086 Amd 05/2011 Information Governance Toolkit (retired) - superseded by the Data Security and Protection Toolkit
- ISB 1572 Amd 97/2010 Sensitive Data (deprecated)
Assurance and endorsements
- Reference code for standards issued as requirements in England
- ISB1523
- Quality assurance
This standard has been approved by the Information Standards Board (legacy) and published as an information standard notice (ISN).
- Endorsements
Not applicable
Page last updated: 22 November 2022