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- 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
- National Workforce Data Set
The National Workforce Data Set (NWD), which includes the NHS occupation codes, specifies the data standards to be used for NHS workforce information.
Status: Active
Date added: 22 Oct 2021
- NHS Number
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: 22 Oct 2021
- OPCS Classification of Interventions and Procedures
OPCS-4 is a statistical classification for clinical coding of hospital interventions and procedures undertaken by the NHS. The classification is mandatory for use by health care providers to support various forms of data collections for secondary uses
Status: Active
Date added: 22 Oct 2021
- SNOMED CT
SNOMED CT is the information standard for clinical terminology; it is an international standard published by SNOMED International providing a global common language for health terms.
Status: Active
Date added: 22 Oct 2021