Version: 1.0.3 | Published: 1 Dec 2025 | Updated: 3 days ago
Digital Maternity Record Standard
Dataset
Summary
Type:
Information standards
Effective From:
31 March 2025
Applies To:
- Maternity service providers MUST implement the entire record standard.
- Ultrasonography service providers MUST implement the Scan Report Heading and all the Elements contained within that Heading.
- Other service providers with an active involvement during a pregnancy episode MAY implement the standard.
- Maternity staff MUST work with local informatics teams to ensure implementation.
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:
31 December 2025
Topics:
- Care records
- Clinical safety
- Continuity of care
- Demographics
- Health
- Patient communication
- Referrals
- Tests and diagnostics
Care Settings:
- Ambulance (Urgent and Emergency Care)
- Community health
- GP / Primary care
- Hospital
- Maternity
- Social care
- Urgent and Emergency Care
Alternate Name:
DMRS
Documentation
Description:
NHS England has been collaborating with midwives, obstetricians, nurses and other clinicians to create the maternity record standard, which relates to direct patient care, describing the optimal data structure and format of a maternity record.
This new release of the DMRS provides for local implementation of this maternity record within maternity services and supplier systems to enable consistency of information across maternity providers. This will ensure that both health and care professionals and maternity service users have the necessary information in the right place at the right time, to improve the quality and safety of maternity care.
The standard will also support maternity service users by enabling more personalised care, as well as helping midwives and clinicians to provide holistic care.
Documentation Link:
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Origin
Name:
NHSE-SD Data Catalogue