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NHS Standard Contract: Approved Collections

The NHS Standard Contract is mandated by NHS England for use by commissioners for all contracts for healthcare services other than primary care. One component of the Contract, Schedule 6A.1, requires commissioned service providers to submit data when national data collections are appropriate to their services, and are specified in the Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) Schedule of Approved Collections.

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About the Schedule

This Schedule, part of the NHS Standard Contract, is managed by the Data Standards Assurance Service (DSAS) within NHS Digital.

It comprises those collections which have either been approved by the Data Alliance Partnership Board and predecessor organisations, or been through a full burden assessment by the former Review of Central Returns (ROCR) and Burden Advice and Assessment Service (BAAS) functions within NHS Digital.

A short form of the current Schedule is shown below. The full form, with contract service categories, is available for download. The Schedule is updated on a monthly basis following DAPB meetings and the approval of new collections.

Note that providers do have other information responsibilities under the NHS Standard Contract, including the need to conform to all NHS information standards notices (ISNs) as appropriate. You can check the full list of current ISNs in the DAPB Directory of Standards and Collections. 

Schedule of Approved Collections (long form)

Schedule of Approved Collections (short form)

Title Owning organisation Information
Aggregate Contract Monitoring NHS England DCB2050 Guidance (NHS England and NHS Improvement)
Alcohol Dependence Programme Patient Level Data Collection NHS England DAPB4044 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Ambulance Data Set NHS England DAPB3107 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Ambulance Quality Indicators: Clinical Outcomes NHS England DCB3028-01 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Ambulance Quality Indicators: Systems Indicators NHS England DAPB3028-02 Guidance (NHS England)
Ambulance Services: Computer Aided Dispatch Data NHS England DCB3088 Guidance (NHS England and NHS Improvement)
Antibiotic Consumption Data NHS England DCB3063 Guidance (NHS England)
Assuring Transformation NHS England DCB2007 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Board Vacancies and Commercial Spend NHS England DAPB4009 Guidance (NHS England and NHS Improvement)
Breast and Cosmetic Implant Registry Department of Health and Social Care DAPB2132 Guidance (NHS England)
Breast Screening Programme Data Set (KC63 and KC62) Public Health England ISB 1597 Guidance (Public Health England)
British Society of Surgery of the Hand (BSSH) Audit (UK National Hand Registry) British Society of Surgery of the Hand (BSSH) DCB2196 Guidance (BSSH Members Area)
Cancer Outcomes and Services Dataset NHS England DAPB1521 Guidance (NHS England)
Cancer Patient Tracking List (PTL) NHS England DAPB3037 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Cancer Quality of Life Metric Survey NHS England DCB3102 Guidance (NHS England)
Care Hours per Patient Day (CHPPD) NHS England DCB2039 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Central Alerting System: Patient Safety Alert Compliance Data Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency R00190 Data (NHS Improvement)
Commissioning Data Sets (CDS) NHS England DAPB0092 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Community Daily Discharge SitRep NHS England DAPB3136 Guidance (NHS England)
Community health staff data collection NHS England DCB3095 Guidance (NHS England and NHS Improvement)
Community Services Data Set NHS England DAPB1069 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Consultant-led referral to treatment (RTT) waiting times NHS England DCB0095 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Corporate Services annual data collection NHS England DAPB4006 (no guidance published)
COVID-19: Community Health Services SitRep NHS England DCB3132 Guidance (NHS Digital)
COVID-19: Daily Discharge SitRep NHS England DCB3129 Guidance (NHS Digital)
COVID-19: ICU Consumables Stocktake: Renal Stocktake NHS England DCB3122 (no guidance published) NHS England and NHS Improvement
COVID-19: Independent Sector Provider (ISP) Diagnostics and Cancer Treatments Daily Situation Report (SitRep) NHS England DCB3138 (no guidance published) NHS England
COVID-19: Independent Sector Provider (ISP) Weekly Activity SitRep NHS England DCB3139 Guidance (NHS Digital)
COVID-19: Maternity COVID Service Alterations SitRep NHS England DAPB4067 (no guidance published) NHS England and NHS Improvement
COVID-19: NHS Staff Lateral Flow Testing NHS England DCB3137 Guidance (NHS Digital)
COVID-19: NHS Weekly Activity Return NHS England DCB3142 Guidance (NHS Digital)
COVID-19: Post-COVID Assessment Clinic Patient List NHS England DAPB4027 Guidance (NHS England) (login required)
CQC Provider Survey Care Quality Commission DAPB3030 Data (Care Quality Commission)
CQUIN Consolidated Data Collection NHS England DAPB2239 Guidance (NHS England and NHS Improvement)
Critical Care Minimum Data Set NHS England ISB 0153 (ISB website)
Data Security and Protection Toolkit Department of Health and Social Care DAPB0086 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Database for the National Latent Tuberculosis Screening Programme in New Migrants from High-incidence Countries Public Health England SCCI2108 Guidance (Public Health England)
Devices Patient Level Contract Monitoring NHS England DCB3002 Guidance (NHS England)
Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Data Set Public Health England ISB 0073 (ISB website)
Diagnostic Imaging Data Set NHS England SCCI1577 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Diagnostics Waiting Times and Activity Data Collection NHS England DCB0103-01 Guidance and Data (NHS England)
Direct Access Audiology Waiting Times NHS England DCB0127 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Drugs Patient Level Contract Monitoring  NHS England DCB2212 Guidance (NHS England)
Emergency Care Data Set v4.0 NHS England DAPB0092-2062 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Estates Return Information Collection (ERIC) NHS England DAPB2083 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Female Genital Mutilation Enhanced Data set Department of Health and Social Care SCCI2026 Guidance (NHS Digital)
FFP3 resilience data collection Department of Health and Social Care DAPB4055 (no guidance published) Department of Health and Social Care
Fleet data for Model Ambulance NHS England DAPB4035 (no guidance published) NHS England and NHS Improvement)
Friends and Family Test NHS England DCB2054 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Friends and Family Test: Post-COVID Assessment Clinics NHS England DAPB2054-4026 Guidance (NHS England and NHS Improvement)
Friends and Family Test: Quarterly Staff Survey NHS England DAPB2054-3144 Guidance (NHS England and NHS Improvement)
Frontline Healthcare worker COVID-19 and flu vaccination data uptake collection NHS England  
Genetic Testing Rates NHS England SCCI2035 Data (NHS Digital)
Greener NHS - Fleet Data Collection NHS England DAPB4058 Guidance (NHS England)
Greener NHS Quarterly data collection NHS England DAPB4062 (no guidance published) NHS England and NHS Improvement
Hospital and Community Health Services Written Complaints Collection (KO41a) Department of Health and Social Care SCCI2125 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Data Set NHS England DAPB1520 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Influenza and COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Frontline Healthcare Workers (HCWs) survey Public Health England   DAPB2204 Guidance (Public Health England)
Integrated Urgent Care Aggregate Data Collection NHS England DAPB3031 Guidance (NHS England)
Integrating Flu/ COVID Hospitalisation Surveillance Public Health England DCB2043 no guidance published (Public Health England)
KH03: Bed Availability and Occupancy NHS England DCB1576 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Legal Services Target Operating Model (LSTOM) data collection NHS England DAPB4007 (no guidance published)
Long Length of Stay Discharge Patient Tracking List NHS England DCB3079 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Maternity Services Data Set NHS England DCB1513 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Medical Revalidation Annual Organisational Audit NHS England DCB3077 Guidance (NHS England and NHS Improvement)
Mental Health Services Data Set Department of Health and Social Care DAPB0011 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Mental Health Staff Data Collection   NHS England DCB3089 Guidance (NHS England and NHS Improvement)
Mixed-Sex Accommodation NHS England DCB1573 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Monthly Referrals Return  NHS England DCB3023-01 Guidance (NHS England and NHS Improvement)
Monthly Situation Reports: Emergency Care NHS England DCB1607 Guidance (NHS Digital)
National Cancer Patient Experience Survey NHS England DAPB2116 Guidance (NHS England)
National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring Data Set NHS England DCB0147 Guidance (NHS Digital)
National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database (NCCID) NHSX DAPB4032 Guidance (NHSX)
National Diabetes Audit (Core) NHS England DCB2235-01 Guidance (NHS Digital)
National Diabetes Footcare Audit NHS England DCB2235-03 Guidance (NHS Digital)
National Diabetes Inpatient Safety Audit (NDISA)  NHS England DCB2235-05 Guidance (NHS Digital)
National Joint Registry Data Set NJR Steering Committee DCB1567 Guidance (NJR)
National Pregnancy in Diabetes Audit   NHS England DCB2235-02 Guidance (NHS Digital)
National Waiting List Weekly Minimum Data Set NHS England DCB3145 Guidance (NHS England and NHS Improvement)
National Wheelchair Data Collection NHS England DCB2097 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Neonatal Critical Care Minimum Data Set NHS England SCCI0075 (National Casemix Office)
Neonatal Data Set  Imperial College London DAPB1595 Guidance (Imperial College London)
NHS 111 Patient Experience Survey NHS England DAPB3029 Guidance (NHS Digital)
NHS Continuing Healthcare Benchmarking Collection NHS England DCB2117 Guidance (NHS Digital)
NHS Premises Assurance Model Online System NHS England DAPB4021 Guidance (NHS England)
NHS Staff Survey NHS England DCB3078 Guidance (NHS England and NHS Improvement)
NHS Surplus Land collection Department of Health and Social Care DCB2154 Data (NHS Digital)
NHS Trust and CCG Governing Bodies: 2020 Board Membership and Diversity Survey NHS England DCB3133 Guidance (NHS England and NHS Improvement)
NHS Weekly Activity Return (NHS WAR) NHS England DAPB3142 (NHS England)
Out of Area Placements Department of Health and Social Care SCCI2213 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Paediatric Critical Care Minimum Data Set NHS England SCCI0076 (National Casemix Office)
Patient Level Contract Monitoring NHS England DCB3003 Guidance (NHS England and NHS Improvement)
Patient Level Information and Costing Systems (PLICS) Ambulance Data Set NHS England DAPB4001 Guidance (NHS England)
Patient Level Information and Costing Systems (PLICS) Integrated Data Set NHS England DAPB4000 Guidance (NHS England)
Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE) NHS England DAPB2085 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Plastics Reduction Pledge NHS England DCB3091 Guidance (NHS England and NHS Improvement)
Prevent Training Reports NHS England SCCI2193 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Quarterly Monitoring of Cancelled Operations  NHS England DCB0143 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Radiotherapy Data Set Public Health England DAPB0111 Guidance (Public Health England)
Seven Day Services Survey NHS England SCCI2173 Data (NHS England)
Spend comparison: Accounts Payable NHS England DCB3080-02 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Spend comparison: Purchase Order Data NHS England DCB3080-01 Guidance (NHS digital)
Surgical Devices and Implants Core Data Set Department of Health and Social Care DAPB3103 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Surveillance of Healthcare Associated Infections NHS England DCB0134 Guidance (Public Health England)
Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy Data Set Public Health England DCB1533 Guidance (Public Health England)
Theatre Productivity data collection NHS England  
Tobacco Dependence Programme Patient Level Data Collection NHS England DAPB4041 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Trauma Audit and Research Network Notification Data Set Department of Health and Social Care DAPB1606 Guidance (TARN)
Please note a new website is currently in development
Violence Against Staff data collection NHS England DCB3100 (no guidance published) NHS England and NHS Improvement
Volunteer numbers supporting NHS Trusts Survey NHS England DAPB4057 (no guidance published) NHS England and NHS Improvement
VTE Risk Assessment  NHS England DCB1593 Guidance (NHS Digital)
Workforce Disability Equality Standard NHS England DAPBB3048 Guidance (NHS England and NHS Improvement)
Workforce Race Equality Standard NHS England DAPB3040 Guidance (NHS Digital)

 

Advice and support

If you have any questions about the content of the DAPB Schedule, email: [email protected]

If you have any questions about the NHS Standard Contract, email: [email protected]

Further information

internal Publications and notifications

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

Last edited: 11 October 2023 3:47 pm