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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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  • Information provided by local authorities in shared care records

    Part of a suite of social care standards, this is the important details that the local authority holds about people that would be useful for health and care professionals in providing care and support in hospital, at home or in a care home.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • eDischarge summary

    The eDischarge Summary Standard enables hospitals to safely transfer standardised clinical information which can be extracted directly into GP IT systems, when a patient is discharged from hospital care.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Personalised Care and Support Plan

    A standard to allow the sharing of care plans between patients, carers and all the health and care professionals involved in that person's care. This is an updated version of the original Digital care and support plan, published in 2018 and now includes the elements for community mental health planning.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Core information standard

    The core information standard defines a set of information that can potentially be shared between systems in different sites and settings, among professionals and people using services.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Clinical referral information

    A standard to improve the exchange of referral information from GPs to hospital consultants and other health care professionals providing outpatient services

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Ambulance handover to emergency care

    Record information that is handed over when care is transferred from ambulances to emergency departments to ensure fast, effective sharing of information. Making this information available to emergency care will improve continuity of care.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Care homes view of shared care records

    Record the information that care home staff should see in a shared care record. Sharing this information between health and social care is critical to the wellbeing of people receiving care and to the professionals who care for them.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Community Pharmacy Information Standard

    The community pharmacy standard supports information sharing between community pharmacists and GP practices

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • About Me

    Record the most important details that a person wants to share with professionals in health and social care. This information might include how best to communicate with the person, how to help them feel at ease or details about how they like to take their medication.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 27 Oct 2021

  • Automatic Identification and Data Capture for Patient Identification

    AIDC for Patient Identification defines how to encode NHS approved patient identifiers into a two-dimensional barcode

    Status: Active

    Date added: 22 Oct 2021