Version: 1.0.5 | Published: 1 Dec 2025 | Updated: 3 days ago

Ambulance Data Set

Dataset

Summary

Type:
  • Collections
  • Information standards
Effective From:
09 February 2024
Applies To:
All 11 Ambulance Services in England
Impacts On:
Implementation of this information standard impacts all health IT systems suppliers providing systems to the above providers; suppliers should work with their customers to determine necessary changes.
Conformance Date:
01 July 2024
Topics:
  • Data definitions and terminologies
  • Demographics
  • Information governance
  • Key care information
  • Reference data
Care Settings:
  • Hospital
  • Urgent and Emergency Care
Alternate Name:
ADS

Documentation

Description:

The ADS will combine data from Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems to achieve the following objectives:

  • Create an accessible data warehouse to inform national clinical and operational policy
  • Provide a single consistent and comparable data set for benchmarking
  • Reduce the informatic burden on ambulance services by replacing the multiple requests that ambulance services currently receive
  • Provide services with linked data from other supporting data sets starting with Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) to provide better information about the patient journey and benefit paramedics by providing learning about clinical outcomes.
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