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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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  • Commissioning Data Sets

    Commissioning Data Sets are patient level data sets intended to deliver robust, comprehensive, nationally consistent and comparable person-based information on hospital activity to support a variety of secondary use purposes.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 13 Jun 2022

  • Child Protection - Information Sharing - SMSP API standards

    Become a Spine Mini Service Provider (SMSP) giving access to data from the national child protection information sharing (CP-IS) database for an unscheduled care provider using our SMSP API standards.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 7 Jun 2022

  • Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Manufacture of Health IT Systems

    Prepared by the NHS Digital Clinical Safety team, this standard is designed to help manufacturers of health IT software evidence the clinical safety of their products

    Status: Active

    Date added: 12 Apr 2022

  • Summary Care Record - SMSP API standards

    Become a Spine Mini Service Provider (SMSP) giving access to a patient's Summary Care Record (SCR) using our SMSP API standards.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 22 Dec 2021

  • National Record Locator - FHIR API

    Locate and access patient information shared by other healthcare organisations using the National Record Locator (NRL) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) API.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 22 Dec 2021

  • National Early Warning Score 2 API standards

    API standards to enable sharing of patients' vital signs and National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) scores between systems and across care boundaries, using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for health and care data exchange.

    Status: Deprecated

    Date added: 22 Dec 2021

  • GP Connect Access Record: Structured - FHIR API

    Retrieve structured information from a patient’s GP practice record using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for health and care data exchange.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 22 Dec 2021

  • GP Connect Access Record: HTML - FHIR API

    View a patient's GP practice record, with read-only access, using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for health and care data exchange.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 22 Dec 2021

  • GP Connect Access Document - FHIR API

    Retrieve unstructured documents from a patient’s GP practice record using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for health and care data exchange.

    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