Acute/Foundation Standards List
This list of standards has been collected to enable a reference table to be created and linked to the EPR procurement catalogue.
The majority of these standards are already collated on the following websites: NHS Data Standards Directory and NHS Digital - Approved standards and collections
Secondary Care - Overarching Standards
These standards are overarching and apply to all requirements and user stories.
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STD006 | 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. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | ISB1523 |
STD016 | Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Deployment and Use of Health IT Systems | 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 | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB0160 |
STD017 | 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 | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB0129 |
STD050 | The ISO 8000 series provides frameworks for improving data quality for specific kinds of data. The series defines which characteristics of data are relevant to data quality, specifies requirements applicable to those characteristics, and provides guidelines for improving data quality. | International Organization for Standardization | International Organization for Standardization | ISO 8000-1 | |
STD051 | ISO 9001 sets out the criteria for a quality management system. This standard is based on a number of quality management principles including a strong customer focus, the motivation and implication of top management, the process approach and continual improvement. | International Organization for Standardization | International Organization for Standardization | ISO 9000-1 | |
STD077 | The Service Standard provides the principles of building a good service. This manual explains what teams can do to build great services that will meet the standard. | UK Government |
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STD082 | The Standard of Good Practice for Information Security (SOGP) is a framework developed by the Information Security Forum (ISF) to help organizations establish and maintain effective information security management systems. An internationally recognised set of good practice covering all aspects of cyber resilience, cloud security and information risk management. | Information Security Forum |
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STD101 | Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) is a unique 12-digit identifier for every addressable location in Great Britain. UPRNs are created and managed by GeoPlace, a partnership between Ordnance Survey and Local Government Association. They are assigned to properties at the planning stage and remain with the property throughout its lifecycle, even if the address changes. | GeoPlace |
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STD102 | 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. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) |
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STD103 | The Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC) is a set of criteria for assessing the safety, security, and usability of digital health technologies. It was developed by the NHS in England to help organizations make informed decisions about which digital health technologies to adopt. | NHS England |
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STD104 | UK General Data Protection Regulation is a comprehensive law that sets out the rules for how organizations can collect, use, and store personal data. It gives individuals more control over their personal data and requires organizations to be more transparent about how they use it. | Information Commissioners Office |
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STD106 | Health informatics — Standard communication protocol — Computer-assisted electrocardiography | This specifies the common conventions required for the interchange of specific patient data (demographic, recording conditions ...), ECG signal data and metadata, ECG measurements and ECG annotations, and ECG interpretation results | International Organization for Standardization | International Organization for Standardization | ISO 41064:2023 |
Secondary Care - Context Specific Standards
These standards have been explicitly mapped to the requirements and user stories in the catalogue
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STD001 | 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. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB1605 | |
STD002 | The Aggregate Contract Monitoring (ACM) information standard enables the interchange of monthly aggregate contract monitoring data between commissioners and providers of healthcare in a uniform format. This will ensure that contract monitoring and reporting is consistent, comparable and fit for purpose across all commissioning organisations and their footprints. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB2050 | |
STD003 | AIDC for Patient Identification defines how to encode NHS approved patient identifiers into a two-dimensional barcode | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB1077 | |
STD004 | This standard applies to any NHS setting in England where automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) technologies (i.e. barcodes and RFID tags) are used as enablers to improve patient safety, ensure greater clinical effectiveness and drive operational efficiencies. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DAPB0108 | |
STD009 | 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. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | ISB1555 | |
STD013 | 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 | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB1609 | |
STD019 | Type 011: Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) is the Commissioning Data Set (CDS) Type for emergency care services. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DAPB0092-2062 | |
STD021 | 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 | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB3058 | |
STD022 | Monthly aggregate data collection to monitor consultant-led referral to treatment (RTT) waiting times. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB0095 | |
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STD028 | The Diagnostic Imaging Data set (DID) is a central collection of detailed information about diagnostic imaging tests carried out on NHS patients, to be extracted and submitted monthly. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | SCCI1577 | |
STD029 | This information standard is a dictionary for use in the NHS of medicines licensed in the United Kingdom | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | SCCI0052 | |
STD030 | DICOM is the international standard to transmit, store, retrieve, print, process, and display medical imaging information. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | ISB1556 | |
STD034 | Collecting reports of suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs) via the Yellow Card Scheme. This standard defines a method for submitting the information electronically; this allows IT systems to reduce the burden on the clinician by populating the majority of the Yellow Card submission from the patient's electronic record. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB1582 | |
STD035 | The Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Enhanced Data Set requires organisations to record, collect and return detailed information about FGM within the patient population, as treated by the NHS in England. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | SCCI2026 | |
STD036 | The FGM-IS is a national IT system that supports the ongoing safeguarding of patients, under the age of 18, who have a family history of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB2112 | |
STD039 | 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. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB0090 | |
STD043 | Identity Verification and Authentication Standard for Digital Health and Care Services | This standard provides for a consistent approach to identity management across digital health and care services, covering: verification, authentication and clinical authorisation | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB3051 |
STD045 | The Data Security and Protection (DSP) Toolkit is an online tool that enables relevant organisations to measure their performance against the data security and information governance requirements mandated by the Department of Health and Social Care, notably the 10 data security standards set by the National Data Guardian. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB0086 | |
STD046 | Information Sharing to Tackle Violence |
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STD049 | International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) is a comprehensive classification of causes of morbidity and mortality and is published by the World Health Organization (WHO). | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | SCCI0021 | |
STD056 | The National Joint Registry (NJR) data set for joint replacement surgery and joint replacement implants provides activity and outcome data about the orthopaedic sector. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB1567 | |
STD057 | The National Workforce Data Set (NWD), which includes the NHS occupation codes, specifies the data standards to be used for NHS workforce information. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DAPB1067 | |
STD062 | 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 | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | ISB0149 | |
STD064 | 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 | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | ISB0149-02 | |
STD065 | 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 | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB0084 | |
STD066 | The Overseas Visitor Charging Category (OVCC) must be used to record the chargeable status of a patient using NHS services | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB3017 | |
STD069 | An information standard to form the basis of sharing pathology test requests and results for all of England. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DAPB4017 | |
STD070 | A specification for the clear and unambiguous display of patient information on an NHS patient identity band. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | ISB0099 | |
STD076 | This information standard defines the minimum non-functional requirements for a secure email service | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB1596 | |
STD080 | 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. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | SCCI0034 | |
STD085 | 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. | Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) |
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STD086 | The Data Security Standards |
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STD088 | 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. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB0028 | |
STD089 | The WCAG 2.1 guidelines are an important tool for making web content more accessible to people with disabilities. | W3C | W3C | WCAG 2.1 | |
STD090 |
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STD091 | An information standard to establish consistency in the creation and issue of transfer of care acute inpatient discharge documents from acute trusts to GP Practice systems. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DAPB4042 | |
STD095 | vCards are a convenient way to share contact information. They are also a standard format that is supported by most contact management software. | Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) |