Datasets

• Care homes view of shared care records

  Part of a suite of social care standards, The care homes view is the information that care home staff can see in a shared care record

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• 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

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• Community pharmacy

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

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• Dictionary of Medicines and Devices

  This information standard is a dictionary for use in the NHS of medicines licensed in the United Kingdom

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• Healthcare Resource Groups

  Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs) are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments which use comparable levels of healthcare resource. In their most basic form HRGs are groups of ICD-10 diagnoses and OPCS procedures that have similar resource implications.

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• 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

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• 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

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• Digital Maternity Record Standard

  An information standard for maternity services, to ensure that maternity record information is consistently captured and as a result can be shared more easily across health care systems.

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• 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.

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• Ambulance handover to emergency care

  A standard for the information that is shared when care is transferred from ambulances to emergency departments

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• About Me

  Part of a suite of social care standards, About Me information is the most important details that a person wants to share with professionals in health and social care

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• Hospital referral for assessment for community care and support

  The Hospital referral for assessment for community care and support is the information required when a person is referred for ongoing community assessment after a hospital stay. This standard is part of a suite of social care standards by the PRSB

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• Urgent referral from care home to hospital

  This is the information required for the care and support of a person when they are admitted to hospital from a care home in an emergency. This standard is part of a suite of social care standards by the PRSB

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• Mental health inpatient discharge

  Standardising information shared so professionals can provide continuity of care when an adult is discharged from mental health services. Includes information on patient history, medications, as well as current and previous diagnoses

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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

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• Outpatient letter

  Standards for digital outpatient letters allow clinical information to be recorded, exchanged and accessed consistently across care settings. Best practice for most outpatient letters is writing directly to patients.

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• 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

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• Vaccination APIs

  Provide information to NHS Digital relating to coronavirus (COVID-19) and seasonal flu 2020-21 vaccinations

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Deployment and Use of Health...

  Prepared by the NHS Digital Clinical Safety team, this standard is designed to help health and care organisations assure the clinical safety of their health IT software

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• Compliance with National Data Opt-outs

  Provides a set of requirements to ensure that all health and adult social care organisations in England can comply with the National data opt-out policy

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• Sexual Orientation Monitoring

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

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• Birth Notifications

  The purpose of this operational information standard is to notify births, allocate NHS Numbers for newborns and send birth details to all relevant departments, thereby fulfilling statutory and screening requirements to notify others outside the maternity department of the birth.

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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.

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• Identity Verification and Authentication Standard for Digital Health and Care...

  This standard provides for a consistent approach to identity management across digital health and care services, covering: verification, authentication and clinical authorisation

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• Secure Email

  This information standard defines the minimum non-functional requirements for a secure email service

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• Assessment, Discharge and Withdrawal Notices between Hospitals and Social Ser...

  This information standard defines a set of Assessment, Discharge and Withdrawal (ADW) Notices to support compliance with the Care Act 2014.

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• Interim Clinical Imaging Procedure Codes

  The National Interim Clinical Imaging Procedure (NICIP) code set enables accurate ordering of medical procedures.

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• Patient Identifiers for Identity Bands

  A specification for the clear and unambiguous display of patient information on an NHS patient identity band.

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• 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.

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• Pathology Test and Results Standard

  An information standard to form the basis of sharing pathology test requests and results for all of England

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• Medicine and Allergy/Intolerance Data Transfer

  An Information Standard which sets out definitions that are to be used when a health professional sends or receives patient medication and allergy/intolerance information, by computer system, between care locations.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Accessible Information

  This information standard aims to make sure that people who have a disability, impairment or sensory loss get appropriate information and communication support from NHS and adult social care services.

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• Anonymisation Standard for Publishing Health and Social Care Data

  This process standard for publishing health and social care data provides an agreed and standardised approach to anonymisation.

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• 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.

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• Information Governance Standards Framework

  The standards framework consists of nineteen policy statements, underpinned by legislative requirements and formally adopted procedures and guidance applicable to appropriate health and social care organisations.

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• FHIR UK Core API standards

  API standards using FHIR release 4 to create a unified approach to interoperability across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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• 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

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• Digital Maternity API standards

  API standards to enable sharing and updating of digital maternity records

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• NHS App API

  Engage with users of the NHS App.

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• Dose Syntax API standards

  API standards to provide a structured way to record dosage instructions between primary and secondary care settings.

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• Clinical Decision Support API standards

  API standards to support the triage and onward referral of patients who are interacting with Urgent and Emergency Care services, such as NHS 111.

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• Care Connect FHIR API standards

  API standards using FHIR STU3 to create a unified approach to interoperability across England

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• Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration API standards

  Use these API standards to share medication requests between ePMA systems and hospital pharmacy or stock control systems.

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• End of Life API standards

  API standards to enable sharing and updating of digital end of life care (EoLC) records.

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