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.
ID | Title | Description | Owner | Approver | Approver Identifier |
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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 | |
STD053 | 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 | 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) | DAPB4013 | |
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 |
Mental Health - Context Specific Standards
These standards have been explicitly mapped to the requirements and user stories in the catalogue
ID | Title | Description | Owner | Approver | Approver Identifier |
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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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
STD097 | 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) |
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STD116 | 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 | 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) |
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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.
ID | Title | Description | Owner | Approver | Approver Identifier |
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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 | |
STD005 | Ambulance Electronic Patient Report (AEPR) standard defines the | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | ISB 1516 | |
STD008 | 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 | 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 |
| NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | ISB 1597 | |
STD011 | The national standard for reporting cancer in the NHS in England. | NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | DCB1521 | |
STD012 |
| NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | ISB 0085 | |
STD014 |
| NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | ISB 0146 | |
STD015 | 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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | |
STD023 | 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 |
| NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | ISB 0153 | |
STD026 | 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 |
| NHS England | Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) | ISB 0073 | |
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 | |
STD031 | 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 | 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 | |
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