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NHSE

Record the most important details that a person wants to share with professionals in health and social care, for example how best to communicate with the person, how to help them feel at ease or details about how they like to take their medication.

NHSE-SD Data Catalogue

About Me

Aims to make sure that people who have accessibility needs, reasonable adjustments, disability, impairment or sensory loss get appropriate information and communication support from NHS and adult social care services.

Accessible Information

Details the vaccination coverage for the secondary school-setting national immunisation programmes for human papillomavirus (HPV), tetanus/low dose diphtheria/inactivated polio (Td/IPV) and meningococcal bacteria A, C, W and Y (MenACWY).

Adolescent Vaccine Coverage data

Enables key aspects of the provision of adult social care services across England to be assessed at both national and local level.

Adult Social Care Capacity Tracker

Enables person-centred, sustainable innovation for adult social care by specifying a client level, core data set to capture adult social care activity across England.

Adult Social Care Client Level Data Set

Collects information on the Deferred Payment Agreements (DPAs) that Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs) have arranged with clients to help with the payment of the costs of their care.

Adult Social Care Deferred Payment Agreements

Ensures a consistent baseline recording of direct care data by Care Quality Commission (CQC) registered adult social care providers.

Adult Social Care Digital Social Care Record Minimum Operational Data Specification

Collects council level financial data to allow the calculation of unit costs, income and expenditure for adult social care at a national and council level.

Adult Social Care Finance Return

Collects information about the social care workforce in England obtained from all Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs).

Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set

Enables the interchange of monthly aggregate contract monitoring data between commissioners and providers of healthcare in a uniform format.

Aggregate Contract Monitoring

Assists the delivery of the Alcohol Dependence Programme, which includes service improvement for hospital Alcohol Care Teams supporting alcohol-dependent inpatients.

Alcohol Dependence Programme Patient Level Data Collection

This standard 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.

All Age Continuing Care (AACC) Data Set

Combines data from Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems to follow and understand patient journeys from the ambulance service into other urgent and emergency healthcare settings.

Ambulance Data Set

Defines the minimum clinical information that ambulance staff record in electronic systems for all patients who receive an NHS emergency ambulance response in England.

Ambulance Electronic Patient Report

Record information that is handed over when care is transferred from ambulances to emergency departments to ensure fast, effective sharing of information. Making this information available to emergency care will improve continuity of care.

Ambulance handover to emergency care

Data on outcomes for ambulance patients with stroke, cardiac arrest, heart attacks, or sepsis.

Ambulance Quality Indicators - Clinical Outcomes

Indicators collected on response times, transport to Emergency Department, call and incident counts.

Ambulance Quality Indicators - Systems Indicators

Data in this collection records the time taken between a 999 call and a patient’s treatment at scene and the data fields include both category and response type as well as vehicle information.

Ambulance Services: Computer Aided Dispatch Data

Aggregated vaccine coverage data for monitoring and evaluating the national immunisation programmes.

Annual Automated Vaccine Coverage Collections 

A mandatory self-declaration for all GP practices in England used to ensure practices meet their registration requirements.

Annual GP Practice electronic self declaration

Provides a full national understanding of uses of the Mental Health Act 1983 in English acute trusts.

Annual uses of the Mental Health Act 1983 in English acute trusts

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

Anonymisation Standard for Publishing Health and Social Care Data

Collection of data on trends in antibiotic consumption in Acute Trusts in England.

Antibiotic Consumption Data

Support transfer of care from hospital to social services for patients with care and support needs using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for health and care data exchange.

Assessment Discharge and Withdrawal - FHIR

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