Mental Health Standards List

Mental Health 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

Mental Health - 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

Data Quality

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

Quality Management

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

STD053

Mental Health Services Data Set

VERSION 6.0 is an update to DCB0011: Collect details of children and adults in contact with mental health and wellbeing services (excluding Improving Access to Adult Psychological Therapies) to meet national reporting requirements.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DAPB0011

STD077

Service Manual Standards

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 

 

 

STD082

Standard Of Good Practice For Information Security 2020

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

 

 

STD101

Unique Property Reference Number

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

 

 

STD102

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.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DAPB4013

STD103

Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC)

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

 

 

STD104

UK GDPR

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

 

 

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

Mental Health - Context Specific Standards

These standards have been explicitly mapped to the requirements and user stories in the catalogue

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STD004

AIDC: Automatic Identification and Data Capture

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

STD013

Child Protection Information Service (CPIS)

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

STD029

Dictionary of Medicines and Devices

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

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)

DICOM is the international standard to transmit, store, retrieve, print, process, and display medical imaging information.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

ISB1556

STD039

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.

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

Data Security & Protection toolkit (DSPT)

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

STD062

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

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

ISB0149

STD080

SNOMED CT: UK Edition

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

STD097

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.

Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB)

 

 

STD116

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.

Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB)

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DAPB4022

STD117

Care homes view of shared care records

Record the information that care home staff should see in a shared care record. Sharing this information between health and social care is critical to the wellbeing of people receiving care and to the professionals who care for them.

Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB)

 

 

Additional Standards

These standards are not currently mapped directly to any specific requirements or user stories in the catalogue but may additionally apply in the context of specific mental health settings.

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STD001

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.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DCB1605

STD002

Aggregate Contract Monitoring

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

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

STD005

Ambulance Electronic Patient Report

Ambulance Electronic Patient Report (AEPR) standard defines the
minimum clinical information that ambulance staff record in electronic systems in relation to all patients who receive an NHS emergency ambulance response in England.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

ISB 1516

STD008

Assuring Transformation

This data collection informs NHS England's monitoring of the progress in moving people with learning disabilities from inpatient to community settings.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DCB2007

STD009

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.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

ISB1555

STD010

Breast Screening Programme Data Set (KC63 and KC62)

 

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

ISB 1597

STD011

Cancer Outcomes and Services Data set

The national standard for reporting cancer in the NHS in England.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DCB1521

STD012

Cataract Data Set

 

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

ISB 0085

STD014

Childhood Measurement Central Return

 

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

ISB 0146

STD015

Chlamydia Testing Activity Dataset

This data set aims to enable comprehensive collection of robust data from laboratories on all chlamydia testing carried out in England, in order to estimate population screening coverage rates at local level.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

SCCI1538

STD018

Commissioning Data Sets (CDS)

Commissioning Data Sets are patient level data sets intended to deliver robust, comprehensive, nationally consistent and comparable person-based information on hospital activity to support a variety of secondary use purposes.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DAPB0092

STD019

Emergency Care Dataset

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

STD020

Community Services Data Set

The Community Services Data Set (CSDS) is a patient level, output based, secondary uses data about publicly funded Community Services.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DAPB1069

STD021

Compliance with National Data Opt Out

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

Consultant-led Referral to Treatment (RTT) Waiting Times

Monthly aggregate data collection to monitor consultant-led referral to treatment (RTT) waiting times.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DCB0095

STD023

Cover of Vaccination Evaluated Rapidly

The COVER (Cover of Vaccination Evaluated Rapidly) surveillance scheme evaluates the childhood immunisation programme in England, collating data for children aged 1, 2 and 5.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DAPB0089

STD024

Critical Care Minimum Data Set

 

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

ISB 0153

STD026

Devices Patient Level Contract Monitoring

The Devices Patient Level Contract Monitoring (DePLCM) information standard enables the interchange of monthly patient level device contract monitoring data between commissioners and providers of healthcare in a uniform format. This will ensure that device 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)

DCB3002

STD027

Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Data Set

 

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

ISB 0073

STD028

Diagnostic Imaging Data Set

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

STD031

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.

Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB)

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DCB3066

STD032

Drugs Patient Level Contract Monitoring

The Drugs Patient Level Contract Monitoring (DrPLCM) information standard enables the interchange of monthly patient level drug contract monitoring data between commissioners and providers of healthcare in a uniform format. This will ensure that drug 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)

DCB2212

STD033

EDIFACT Pathology Messaging

Send pathology test results from laboratories to GP practices using the Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport (EDIFACT) standard.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

ISB 1557

STD034

Electronic Yellow Card Reporting, Version 3.0

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

Female Genital Mutilation Enhanced Data Set

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

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM-IS)

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

STD037

GUMCAD STI Surveillance System

Genitourinary Medicine Clinic Activity Dataset (GUMCAD) is the mandatory surveillance system for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in England.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DCB0139

STD038

HA/GP Links

Manage GP registrations and other patient data in National Health Application and Infrastructure Services (NHAIS).

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

ISB 1558

STD040

Healthcare Resource Groups (HRG)

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.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

ISB 0070

STD041

Healthy Child Record Standard

An information standard for child health services, to allow everyone involved in caring for children to share information by using standardised digital records.

 Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB)

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DCB3009

STD042

HIV and AIDs Reporting System (HARS)

The HIV and AIDS Reporting System is a data set that underpins national HIV surveillance.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

I1570

STD044

Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Data Set

The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Data Set collects information about adults in contact with psychological therapy services.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DAPB1520

STD048

Interim Clinical Imaging Procedure Codes

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

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

ISB 0148

STD049

International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Health Related Problems (ICD-10) 5th Edition

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

STD052

Maternity Services Data Set

The Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS) is the national information standard for data relating to NHS-funded maternity services.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DCB1513

STD054

National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring Data Set

The National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring Data Set collects data which is used to monitor NHS providers’ compliance with the government’s operational standards for ensuring that cancer services are delivered to patients in a timely manner.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DCB0147

STD055

National Drug and Alcohol Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) Data Set

The National Drug and Alcohol Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) collects person level, patient identifiable data from drug and alcohol treatment providers at a national level.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DAPB0107

STD056

National Joint Registry Data Set

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

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.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DAPB1067

STD058

Neonatal Critical Care Minimum Dataset

The primary purpose of the NCCMDS is to allow the operation of the National Tariff Payment System (NTPS) within neonatal critical care.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

SCCI0075

STD059

Neonatal Data Set

The Neonatal Data Set is the authoritative source of national information relating to neonatal patient demographics, clinical interventions, diagnoses and outcomes.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DAPB1595

STD060

NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Patient-Level Data Set

An information standard which sets out the rules for an end to end, patient level data set that captures data relating to patient details, NHS CHC eligibility, activity, reviews and care packages.

NHS England

 

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

STD061

NHS Health Check

 

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

ISB 1080

STD064

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

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

ISB0149-02

STD065

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

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)

DCB0084

STD066

Overseas Visitor Charging Category

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

STD067

Paediatric Critical Care Minimum Data Set

The primary purpose of the Paediatric Critical Care Minimum Data Set (PCCMDS) is to allow the operation of the National Tariff Payment System (NTPS) within paediatric critical care. It provides a record of what happens to a patient when they receive care in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) or other critical care setting suitable for children.

NHS England

Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)