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UK Core FHIR Release 4 - Governance

The UK Core governance process is an information standard which underpins the development, maintenance and publication of the UK Core. The UK Core is fundamental to other standards which use FHIR where there is a need to communicate an individual’s health and care data securely and consistently between the NHS, health services and adult social care in England.

About this standard

Owner
NHS England
Status
Active
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Active standards are stable, maintained and have been assured or endorsed for use by qualified bodies.

Standards in development are APIs or API standards in alpha or beta, meaning they are available for use but are still in progress and may change.

Deprecated standards are older versions of a standard which are being phased out.

Retired standards are not being maintained and should not be used.

Standard type
Information codes of practice
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Record standards define what information to collect and how to format it, for example when registering a new patient.

Data definitions and terminologies define the format of individual data items so they can be consistently represented, for example dates or medication names. Reference sets and controlled lists are also included.

Technical standards and specifications specify how to make information available technically including how the data is structured and transported.

Information codes of practice are legal or best practice guidelines on how information should be handled.

Contact details
standards.assurance@nhs.net

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Topics and care settings

Topic
  • Messaging
  • Information governance
Care setting
  • Community health
  • Dentistry
  • Hospital
  • Maternity
  • Mental health
  • Patient
  • Pharmacy
  • GP / Primary care
  • Transport / Infrastructure
  • Social care
  • Urgent and Emergency Care

Dependencies and related standards

Dependencies

The UK Core is based on or uses the following standards:

Related standards

This standard relates to the FHIR UK Core API standards.

This first release of the UK Core is the standard used for the following interoperability specifications:

Assurance and endorsements

Reference code for standards issued as requirements in England
DAPB4020
Quality assurance

This standard has been approved by the Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) and published as an information standard notice (ISN).

Endorsements
Not applicable

Page last updated: 26 August 2022