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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 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: Active

    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

  • Sexual Orientation Monitoring

    Sexual Orientation Monitoring is a new fundamental information standard which monitors the sexual orientation of service users.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 22 Oct 2021