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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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  • Reasonable Adjustment Digital Flag

    NHS England has built the Reasonable Adjustment Digital Flag in the NHS Spine to enable health and care professionals to record, share and view details of Reasonable Adjustments across the NHS, wherever the person is treated. The flag indicates that Reasonable Adjustments are required for an individual and optionally includes details of their significant impairments, underlying conditions and key adjustments that should be considered.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 5 Oct 2023

  • NHS Booking and Referral Standard

    An interoperability standard between patient record systems that enables booking and referral information to be sent between NHS healthcare system providers quickly, safely and in a format that is useful to clinicians.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 16 May 2023

  • Emergency Care Data Set

    Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) is the Commissioning Data Set (CDS) Type for emergency care services.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 13 Jun 2022

  • NHS Booking - FHIR API

    Search for free slots and book appointments using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for health and care data exchange.

    Status: Deprecated

    Date added: 22 Dec 2021

  • GP Connect Appointment Management - FHIR API

    Manage GP practice appointments between different systems 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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