Information Standards Notices

Information Standards Notices (ISNs) are published to announce new or changes to information standards published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

Information Standards Notices (ISNs)

An information standard is defined in the Health and Social Care Act 2012 as: 'a document containing standards that relate to the processing of information'.

Health and care organisations adopt information standards, so that data can be shared and compared across the sector.

An Information standard may be technical (for example relating to messaging), data (for example defining the structure and type of information to be recorded and submitted as a data set), or information governance (for example relating to policies, procedures or guidelines on information processing).

The Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) assures the quality of information standards and Information Standards Notices (ISNs) are published to announce new or changes to information standards published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

The Data Standards Assurance Service (DSAS), hosted by NHS Digital, publish the approved ISNs on the NHS Digital website along with supporting documentation - a Requirements Specification, Implementation Guidance and Change Specification (where applicable).

The ISN will include confirmation of the standard details, implementation date, whether it is mandated or voluntary, the legal or contractual basis upon which the data are being requested and details of key contacts.

Current ISNs

Current ISNs, published since 1 April 2014, are listed here by date of publication.

When a new release to an existing standard is published both the current live ISN (to be maintained) and the ISN for the new release (to be implemented) will be listed.

Click on the 'Documentation' or 'Information Standards Notice' link to find out more information about an item.


Reference	Title	Type	Date published	Links
DAPB4019 Amd 77/2020	Reasonable Adjustment Digital Flag	Standard	12/09/2023	DAPB4019 Amd 77/2020 Information Standards Notice DAPB4019 Amd 77/2020 Documentation
DAPB1521 Amd 89/2022	Cancer Outcomes and Services Data set (COSD), Version 10.0	Standard and a Collection	11/09/2023	DAPB1521 Amd 89/2022 Information Standards Notice DAPB1521 Amd 89/2022 Documentation
DAPB2007 Amd 18/2022	Assuring Transformation v4.0	Standard and a Collection	31/08/2023	DAPB2007 Amd 18/2022 Information Standards Notice DAPB2007 Amd 18/2022 Documentation
DAPB0086 Amd 21/2023	Data Security and Protection Toolkit v6.0	Standard and a Collection	18/07/2023	DAPB0086 Amd 21/2023 Information Standards Notice DAPB0086 Amd 21/2023 Documentation
DAPB0011 Amd 37/2022	Mental Health Services Data Set v6.0	Standard and a Collection	06/07/2023	DAPB0011 Amd 37/2022 Information Standards Notice DAPB0011 Amd 37/2022 Documentation
DAPB4008 Amd 05/2023	Community Pharmacy Information Standard	Standard	26/06/2023	DAPB4008 Amd 05/2023 Information Standards Notice DAPB4008 Amd 05/2023 Documentation
DAPB4060 Amd 99/2021	Booking and Referral Standard (BaRS)	Standard	13/04/2023	DAPB4060 Amd 99/2021 Information Standards Notice DAPB4060 Amd 99/2021 Documentation
DAPB4085 Amd 59/2022	Diabetes Record Information Standard	Standard	06/04/2023	DAPB4085 Amd 59/2022 Information Standards Notice DAPB4085 Amd 59/2022 Documentation
DAPB4004 Amd 20/2021	Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN)	Standard	09/02/2023	DAPB4004 Amd 20/2021 Information Standards Notice DAPB4004 Amd 20/2021 Documentation
DAPB1067 Amd 73/2022	National Workforce Data Set (NWD), Version 3.4	Standard	09/02/2022	DAPB1067 Amd 73/2022 Information Standards Notice DAPB1067 Amd 73/2022 Documentation
DAPB4066 Amd 108/2021	Social Prescribing Information Standard	Standard	16/01/2023	DAPB4066 Amd 108/2021 Information Standards Notice DAPB4066 Amd 108/2021 Documentation
DAPB0092-2062 Amd 17/2022	Commissioning Data Sets (CDS): Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) Version 4.0	Standard and a Collection	10/01/2023	DAPB0092-2062 Amd 17/2022 Information Standards Notice DAPB0092-2062 Amd 17/2022 Documentation
DAPB4011 Amd 34/2021	eMED3 (fit notes) in Secondary Care	Standard and a Collection	10/11/2022	DAPB4011 Amd 34/2021 Information Standards Notice DAPB4011 Amd 34/2021 Documentation
DAPB0084 Amd 36/2022	OPCS Classification of Interventions and Procedures, Version 4.10	Standard	01/11/2022	DAPB0084 Amd 36/2022 Information Standards Notice DAPB0084 Amd 36/2022 Documentation
DAPB4081 Amd 19/2022	Adult Social Care Client Level Data Set	Standard and a Collection	18/10/2022	DAPB4081 Amd 19/2022 Information Standards Notice DAPB4081 Amd 19/2022 Documentation
ISB 1594	Information Sharing to Tackle Violence Minimum Dataset	Standard (Deprecation)	11/10/2022	ISB 1594 Deprecation Notice ISB 1594 Documentation
ISB 0066	Renal Data Set	Standard (Deprecation)	09/08/2022	ISB 0066 Deprecation Notice
DAPB0086 Amd 23/2022	Data Security and Protection Toolkit, Version 5.0	Standard and a Collection	03/08/2022	DAPB0086 Amd 23/2022 Information Standards Notice DAPB0086 Amd 23/2022 Documentation
DAPB3009 Amd 16/2022	Healthy Child Programme, Phase 2.1	Standard	14/07/2022	DAPB3009 Amd 16/2022 Information Standards Notice DAPB3009 Amd 16/2022 Documentation
DAPB4001 Amd 21/2022	Patient Level Information and Costing Systems (PLICS) Ambulance Data Set	Standard and a Collection	28/06/2022	DAPB4001 Amd 21/2022 Information Standards Notice DAPB4001 Amd 21/2022 Documentation
DAPB4000 Amd 20/2022	Patient Level Information and Costing Systems (PLICS) Integrated Data Set	Standard and a Collection	28/06/2022	DAPB4000 Amd 20/2022 Information Standards Notice DAPB4000 Amd 20/2022 Documentation
DAPB1595 Amd 30/2022	Neonatal Data Set, Version 2.0	Standard and a Collection	13/06/2022	DAPB1595 Amd 30/2022 Information Standards Notice DAPB1595 Amd 30/2022 Documentation
DAPB0090 Amd 25/2022	Health and Social Care Organisation Reference Data, Version 1.2	Standard	08/06/2022	DAPB0090 Amd 25/2022 Information Standards Notice DAPB0090 Amd 25/2022 Documentation
DAPB0108 Amd 1/2022	Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC)	Standard	14/04/2022	DAPB0108 Amd 1/2022 Information Standards Notice DAPB0108 Amd 1/2022 Documentation
DAPB4020 Amd 33/2021	UK Core Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Release 4 (R4) Governance	Standard	11/03/2022	DAPB4020 Amd 33/2021 Information Standards Notice DAPB4020 Amd 33/2021 Documentation
DAPB3103 Amd 100/2021	Surgical Devices and Implants Core Data Set, Version 1.0	Standard and a Collection	03/02/2022	DAPB3103 Amd 100/2021 Information Standards Notice DAPB3103 Amd 100/2021 Documentation
DAPB4042 Amd 75/2021	Transfer or Care - Acute Inpatient Discharge Standard, Initial Standard	Standard	03/02/2022	DAPB4042 Amd 75/2021 Information Standards Notice DAPB4042 Amd 75/2021 Documentation
DAPB1067 Amd 104/2021	National Workforce Data Set (NWD), Version 3.3	Standard	03/02/2022	DAPB1067 Amd 104/2021 Information Standards Notice DAPB1067 Amd 104/2021 Documentation
DAPB1069 Amd 82/2021	Community Services Data Set (CSDS), Version 1.6	Standard and a Collection	06/01/2022	DAPB1069 Amd 82/2021 Information Standards Notice DAPB1069 Amd 82/2021 Documentation
DAPB0089 Amd 80/2021	Cover of Vaccination Evaluated Rapidly (COVER), Version 2.3	Standard and a Collection	06/01/2022	DAPB0089 Amd 80/2021 Information Standards Notice DAPB0089 Amd 80/2021 Documentation
DAPB4022 Amd 38/2021	Personalised Care and Support Plan	Standard	22/12/2021	DAPB4022 Amd 38/2021 Information Standards Notice DAPB4022 Amd 38/2021 Documentation
DAPB4013 Amd 5/2021	Medicine and Allergy/Intolerance Data Transfer	Standard	30/09/2021	DAPB4013 Amd 5/2021 Information Standards Notice DAPB4013 Amd 5/2021 Documentation
DAPB0107 Amd 50/2021	National Drug and Alcohol Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS), Core dataset Q	Standard and a Collection	30/09/2021	DAPB0107 Amd 50/2021 Information Standards Notice DAPB0107 Amd 50/2021 Documentation
DAPB0111 Amd 84/2020	Radiotherapy Data Set, Version 6.0	Standard and a Collection	20/07/2021	DAPB0111 Amd 84/2020 Information Standards Notice DAPB0111 Amd 84/2020 Documentation
DAPB1520 Amd 13/2021	Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Data Set, Version 2.1	Standard and a Collection	20/07/2021	DAPB1520 Amd 13/2021 Information Standards Notice DAPB1520 Amd 13/2021 Documentation
DAPB0092 Amd 64/2020	Commissioning Data Sets (CDS), Version 6.3	Standard and a Collection	15/06/2021	DAPB0092 Amd 64/2020 Information Standards Notice DAPB0092 Amd 64/2020 Documentation
DCB2050 Amd 73/2020	Aggregate Contract Monitoring (ACM), Version 2.0	Standard and a Collection	08/04/2021	DCB2050 Amd 73/2020 Information Standards Notice DCB2050 Amd 73/2020 Documentation
DCB3003 Amd 76/2020	Devices Patient Level Contract Monitoring (DePLCM), Version 2.0	Standard and a Collection	08/04/2021	DCB3003 Amd 76/2020 Information Standards Notice DCB3003 Amd 76/2020 Documentation
DCB2212 Amd 74/2020	Drugs Patient Level Contract Monitoring (DrPLCM), Version 2.0	Standard and a Collection	08/04/2021	DCB2212 Amd 74/2020 Information Standards Notice DCB2212 Amd 74/2020 Documentation
DCB3002 Amd 75/2020	Patient Level Contract Monitoring (PLCM), Version 2.0	Standard and a Collection	08/04/2021	DCB3002 Amd 75/2020 Information Standards Notice DCB3002 Amd 75/2020 Documentation
DCB0011 Amd 29/2020	Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS), Version 5.0	Standard and a Collection	08/04/2021	DCB0011 Amd 29/2020 Information Standards Notice DCB0011 Amd 29/2020 Documentation
DCB0095 Amd 2/2020	Consultant-led Referral to Treatment (RTT) Waiting Times	Standard and a Collection	11/03/2021	DCB0095 Amd 2/2020 Information Standards Notice DCB0095 Amd 2/2020 Documentation
ISB 1572	Sensitive Data	Standard (Deprecation)	11/03/2021	ISB 1572 Sensitive Data Deprecation Notice
DCB2007 Amd 35/2020	Assuring Transformation, Version 3.0	Standard and a Collection	23/12/2020	DCB2007 Amd 35/2020 Information Standards Notice DCB2007 Amd 35/2020 Documentation
DCB0092-2062 Amd 19/2020	Emergency Care Data Set: CDS Version 6.2.3 Type 011	Standard and a Collection	10/09/2020	DCB0092-2062 Amd 19/2020 Information Standards Notice DCB0092-2062 Amd 19/2020 Documentation
DCB3085 Amd 51/2019	NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Patient-Level Data Set	Standard and a Collection	07/05/2020	DCB3085 Amd 51/2019 Information Standards Notice DCB3085 Amd 51/2019 Documentation
DCB0147 Amd 16/2019	National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring Data Set	Standard and a Collection	02/04/2020	DCB0147 Amd 16/2019 Information Standards Notice DCB0147 Amd 16/2019 Documentation
DCB0028 Amd 45/2019	Treatment Function and Main Specialty Standard, Version 2.0	Standard	02/04/2020	DCB0028 Amd 45/2019 Information Standards Notice DCB0028 Amd 45/2019 Documentation
DCB1077 Amd 67/2018	Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) for Patient Identification, SRIN and GLN Wristband Update	Standard	26/03/2020	DCB1077 Amd 67/2018 Information Standards Notice DCB1077 Amd 67/2018 Documentation
DCB3051 Amd 7/2020	Identity Verification and Authentication Standard for Digital Health and Care Services	Standard	13/06/2020	DCB3051 Amd 7/2020 Information Standards Notice DCB3051 Amd 7/2020 Documentation
DCB2112 Amd 28/2019	FGM Information Sharing (FGM-IS) Local System Integration	Standard	06/03/2020	DCB2112 Amd 28/2019 Information Standards Notice DCB2112 Amd 28/2019 Documentation
DCB0089 Amd 60/2019	Cover of Vaccination Evaluated Rapidly (COVER), Version 2.2	Standard and a Collection	06/02/2020	DCB0089 Amd 60/2019 Information Standards Notice DCB0089 Amd 60/2019 Documentation
DCB1596 Amd 75/2019	Secure Email, Version 2.3	Standard	09/01/2020	DCB1596 Amd 75/2019 Information Standards Notice DCB1596 Amd 75/2019 Documentation
DCB3066 Amd 112/2018	Digital Maternity Record Standard	Standard	18/11/2019	DCB3066 Amd 112/2018 Information Standards Notice DCB3066 Amd 112/2018 Documentation
DCB1069 Amd 95/2018	Community Services Data Set, Version 1.5	Standard and a Collection	16/10/2019	DCB1069 Amd 95/2018 Information Standards Notice DCB1069 Amd 95/2018 Documentation
DCB0011 Amd 43/2019	Mental Health Services Data Set, Version 4.1	Standard and a Collection	09/10/2019	DCB0011 Amd 43/2019 Information Standards Notice DCB0011 Amd 43/2019 Documentation
DCB0084 Amd 18/2019	OPCS Classification of Interventions and Procedures, Version 4.9	Standard	08/10/2019	DCB0084 Amd 18/2019 Information Standards Notice DCB0084 Amd 18/2019 Documentation
DCB1521 Amd 13/2019	Cancer Outcomes and Services Data set, Version 9.0	Standard and a Collection	12/09/2019	DCB1521 Amd 13/2019 Information Standards Notice DCB1521 Amd 13/2019 Documentation
DCB1067 Amd 23/2019	National Workforce Data Set, Version 3.1	Standard	04/07/2019	DCB1067 Amd 23/2019 Information Standards Notice DCB1067 Amd 23/2019 Documentation
ISB 1500 - 1508	Common User Interface (CUI) standards	Standard (Deprecation)	04/07/2019	ISB 1500 - 1508 Deprecation Notice
DCB1609 Amd 113/2018	Child Protection - Information Sharing (CP-IS)	Standard	31/05/2019	DCB1609 Amd 113/2018 Information Standards Notice (Version 2.0) DCB1609 Amd 113/2018 Information Standards Notice (Superseded) DCB1609 Amd 113/2018 Documentation
DCB3058 Amd 91/2018	Compliance with National Data Opt-outs	Standard	18/03/2019	DCB3058 Amd 91/2018 Information Standards Notice DCB3058 Amd 91/2018 Documentation
DCB1533 Amd 80/2018	Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) data set	Standard and a Collection	06/12/2018	DCB1533 Amd 80/2018 Information Standards Notice DCB1533 Amd 80/2018 Documentation
DCB1513 Amd 10/2018	Maternity Services Data Set, Version 2.0	Standard and a Collection	14/09/2018	DCB1513 Amd 10/2018 Information Standards Notice DCB1513 Amd 10/2018 documentation
DCB0139 Amd 21/2017	GUMCAD STI Surveillance System	Standard and a Collection	25/06/2018	DCB0139 Amd 21/2017 Information Standards Notice (Version 2) DCB0139 Amd 21/2017 Information Standards Notice (Superseded) DCB0139 Amd 21/2017 documentation
DCB1567 Amd 66/2017	National Joint Registry Data Set	Standard and a Collection	08/06/2018	DCB1567 Amd 66/2017 Information Standards Notice [Archive Content] DCB1567 Amd 66/2017 documentation
DCB0129 Amd 24/2018	Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Manufacture of Health IT Systems	Standard	07/06/2018	DCB0129 Amd 24/2018 Information Standards Notice DCB0129 Amd 24/2018 documentation
DCB0160 Amd 25/2018	Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Deployment and Use of Health IT Systems	Standard	07/06/2018	DCB0160 Amd 25/2018 Information Standards Notice DCB0160 Amd 25/2018 documentation
DCB3017 Amd 72/2017	Overseas Visitor Charging Category	Standard	12/04/2018	DCB3017 Amd 72/2017 Information Standards Notice DCB3017 Amd 72/2017 documentation
DCB0090 Amd 81/2017	Health and Social Care Organisation Reference Data	Standard	08/03/2018	DCB0090 Amd 81/2017 Information Standards Notice DCB0090 Amd 81/2017 documentation
DCB0134 Amd 18/2017	Surveillance of Healthcare Associated Infections	Standard and a Collection	20/12/2017	DCB0134 Amd 18/2017 Information Standards Notice DCB0134 Amd 18/2017 documentation
DCB1582 Amd 16/2017	Electronic Yellow Card Reporting, Version 3.0	Standard	26/10/2017	DCB1582 Amd 16/2017 Information Standards Notice DCB1582 Amd 16/2017 documentation
DCB2094 Amd 51/2015	Sexual Orientation Monitoring	Standard	05/10/2017	DCB2094 Amd 51/2015 Information Standards Notice DCB2094 Amd 51/2015 documentation
DCB1605 Amd 27/2017	Accessible Information, Version 1.1	Standard	10/08/2017	DCB1605 Amd 27/2017 Information Standards Notice DCB1605 Amd 27/2017 documentation
SCCI1518 Amd 92/2015	Sexual and Reproductive Health Activity Dataset	Standard and a Collection	29/06/2017	SCCI1518 Amd 92/2015 Information Standards Notice SCCI1518 Amd 92/2015 documentation
SCCI0052 Amd 13/2013	Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d): Conversion	Standard	07/04/2017	SCCI0052 Amd 13/2013 Information Standards Notice SCCI0052 Amd 13/2013 documentation
SCCI2075 Amd 70/2016	Assessment, Discharge and Withdrawal Notices between Hospitals and Social Services	Standard	02/11/2016	SCCI2075 Information Standards Notice SCCI2075 documentation
SCCI0034 Amd 35/2016	SNOMED CT	Standard	02/11/2016	SCCI0034 Information Standards Notice SCCI0034 documentation
SCCI1570 Amd 20/2015	HIV and AIDS Reporting System (HARS)	Standard and a Collection	31/10/2016	SCCI1570 Information Standards Notice SCCI1570 documentation
SCCI1577 Amd 10/2011	Diagnostic Imaging Data Set (DIDS)	Standard and a Collection	05/10/2016	SCCI1577 Information Standards Notice SCCI1577 documentation
SCCI0076 Amd 113/2015	Paediatric Critical Care Minimum Data Set	Standard and a Collection	07/09/2016	SCCI0076 Information Standards notice SCCI0076 documentation
SCCI0075 Amd 112/2015	Neonatal Critical Care Minimum Data Set	Standard and a Collection	07/09/2016	SCCI0075 Information Standards Notice SCCI0075 documentation
SCCI1580 Amd 11/2015	Palliative Care Co-ordination: Core Content	Standard	18/09/2015	SCCI1580 Amd 11/2015 Information Standards Notice SCCI1580 Amd 11/2015 documentation
SCCI0021 Amd 10/2014	International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10)	Standard	18/09/2015	SCCI0021 Amd 10/2014 Information Standards Notice SCCI0021 Amd 10/2014 documentation
SCCI2026 Amd 12/2014	Female Genital Mutilation Enhanced Dataset	Standard and a Collection	01/04/2015	SCCI2026 Amd 12/2014 Information Standards Notice [Archive Content] SCCI2026 Amd 12/2014 documentation
SCCI1538 Amd 13/2014	Chlamydia Testing Activity Dataset (CTAD)	Standard and a Collection	17/12/2014	SCCI1538 Amd 13/2014 Information Standards Notice SCCI1538 Amd 13/2014 Documentation
ISB 1553	Read Clinical Terms Version 2	Standard (Deprecation)	17/12/2014	ISB 1553 Deprecation Notice
ISB 1552	Read Clinical Terms Version 3	Standard (Deprecation)	17/12/2014	ISB 1552 Deprecation Notice
ISB 1606 Amd 12/2013	Trauma Audit and Research Network Standard Dataset	Standard and a Collection	03/10/2014	ISB 1606 Amd 12/2013 Information Standards Notice ISB 1606 Amd 12/2013 Documentation
ISB 1594 Amd 31/2012	Information Sharing to Tackle Violence (ISTV)	Standard	19/09/2014	ISB 1594 Amd 31/2012 Information Standards Notice [Archive Content] ISB 1594 Amd 31/2012 Documentation
ISB 1555 Amd 3/2014	Birth Notifications (formerly NHS Number for Babies)	Standard	11/07/2014	ISB 1555 Amd 3/2014 Information Standards Notice ISB 1555 Amd 3/2014 Documentation

A number of the 'Documentation' links for ISB standards will direct you to the ISB website. Although this website has been transferred to The National Archives (TNA) the links are are still correct.

Information about previous releases of standards, or about ISNs which have been published since April 2014 but are now superseded or retired, is available on request from [email protected]

Data Set Change Notices (DSCNs)

ISNs replaced Data Set Change Notices (DSCNs) in April 2010 but a number of DSCNs are still live.

Review the list of current and withdrawn DSCNs.

Further information

Standards and collections

An alphabetical list of all current approved national information standards and data collections (including extractions).

Publications and notifications

View recent DAPB notifications with details of consultation and publication activity, including new Information Standards Notices.

Standards assurance activity

View a summary of standards assurance activity being presented to upcoming meetings of the Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB).

Withdrawn standards and collections

A list of withdrawn and deprecated information standards and collections.

Contact the Data Standards Assurance Service (DSAS)

Contact DSAS with any queries regarding standards assurance, or sign up to our mailing list to receive notifications with details of consultation and publication activity, including new Information Standards Notices.

Last edited: 7 November 2023 9:21 am