NHS-Data Standards

NHS Data Standards & Products (NHS DS&P), part of the Technology Office of NHS Connecting for Health, are responsible for the introduction, development and delivery of coding system products used in the patient records of the NHS Care Records Service, and for the phasing out of dated systems. This is our principal and main focus. The vast majority of codes produced by NHS DS&P are unique and almost all of our coding systems are interrelated.

As part of NHS Connecting for Health's membership of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO), NHS Data Standards & Products also acts as host of the UK Terminology Centre (UKTC) on behalf of the UK.

The products NHS DS&P are responsible for include:

SNOMED CT

Read Codes

Dictionary of Medicine & Devices (dm+d)

ICD-10

OPCS4

NHS Data Dictionary

As part of the delivery and ongoing development, support and maintenance of these products, NHS DS&P provide a set of Data Product services and helpdesk facilities which incorporate:

NHS Terminology Service

NHS Classifications Service

NHS Data Model and Dictionary Service

NHS DS&P also provide a number of other Services delivering codes, and data and quality standards to the NHS incorporating:

National Administrative Codes Services (NACS)

Spine Directory Service (SDS)

Standards Consulting Group (SCG)

Information Quality Assurance Programme (IQAP)

Davie Hay

Senior Standards Consultant (Data Quality)

Standards Consulting Group

Data Standards and Products

NHS Connecting for Health