ISB1594: Information Sharing to Tackle Violence Minimum Dataset

About this information standard

ISTV comprises a small de-identified dataset collected by Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments and shared with local Community Safety Partnerships (CSP) on a monthly basis. The data covers all A&E attendances resulting from violent incidents, including:

• time and date of the incident
• time and date of arrival in A&E
• specific location of the incident
• primary means of assault (for example a weapon or body part used).

The standard (ISB 1594 Amd 30/2012) was approved and published by the Information Standards Board (ISB) in September 2014.

A Corrigendum, below, notes the closure of the ISTV Programme Board and the transfer of sponsorship from the Department of Health to NHS England. It will be incorporated in the next release of this information standard.

1 July 2023: Please note, this Information Standard is no longer supported. Please see the Deprecation Notice above for full details. 

10 January 2023: Please note, the original deprecation date of 1 April 2023 and retirement date of 1 April 2024 have been extended to align with updated implementation timelines for ECDS v4.0. The intention is that ISTV data be collected via ECDS v4.0 from 1 July 2023, dual running with the ISTV collection until its retirement on 1 July 2024, at which point this page will be archived. This change was approved at the December 2022 meeting of the Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB).

11 October 2022: Deprecation of this Standard was formally accepted at the September 2022 meeting of the DAPB. Items which are deprecated still have some value and may still be used with caution but are no longer being maintained and supported. The intention is that ISTV data be collected via ECDS v4.0 from 1 April 2023, dual running with the ISTV collection until its retirement on 1 April 2024, at which point this page will be archived.

2 April 2019: The implementation guidance for ISB 1594: Information Sharing to Tackle Violence Minimum Dataset has been updated [Archive Content]; while no changes have been made to the content of the standard, the implementation guidance has been updated to reflect the introduction of the Data Protection Act 2018 (GDPR) and the owning organisation's branding guidelines. A formal review and update of the information standard and implementation guidance will be undertaken shortly.