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Use this directory to find nationally recognised data standards for use in health and adult social care.

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  • Electronic Yellow Card Reporting

    Collecting reports of suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs) via the Yellow Card Scheme. This standard defines a method for submitting the information electronically; this allows IT systems to reduce the burden on the clinician by populating the majority of the Yellow Card submission from the patient's electronic record.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 22 Dec 2021

  • NHS Number for Secondary Care

    This information standard sets out the scope and use of the NHS Number, which is the unique identifier for a patient within the NHS in England and Wales. There is an overarching standard, supplemented by two use cases for how the standard should be used in general practice and secondary care

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • NHS Number for General Practice

    This information standard sets out the scope and use of the NHS Number, which is the unique identifier for a patient within the NHS in England and Wales. There is an overarching standard, supplemented by two use cases for how the standard should be used in general practice and secondary care

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Healthcare Resource Groups

    Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs) are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments which use comparable levels of healthcare resource. In their most basic form HRGs are groups of ICD-10 diagnoses and OPCS procedures that have similar resource implications.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Dictionary of Medicines and Devices

    This information standard is a dictionary for use in the NHS of medicines licensed in the United Kingdom

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Treatment Function and Main Specialty Standard

    This information standard defines the Treatment Function and Main Specialty classifications used to support the national reporting and analysis of clinical workforce activity throughout the NHS.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Information Sharing to Tackle Violence

    A small de-identified dataset collected by Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments and shared with local Community Safety Partnerships (CSP), covering all A&E attendances resulting from violent incidents.

    Status: Deprecated

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Interim Clinical Imaging Procedure Codes

    The National Interim Clinical Imaging Procedure (NICIP) code set enables accurate ordering of medical procedures.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Health and Social Care Organisation Reference Data

    The information standard provides reference data about the Organisations that comprise the health and social care services, including non-direct-care Organisations, primarily in England but also in the other UK-constituent countries.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Child Protection Information Sharing

    A national programme delivering 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 added: 27 Oct 2021