The standard supports the extraction of comparable data from clinical systems used by commissioned providers of the NHS Health Check and the flow of these data to a central data repository. With appropriate safeguards, information extracted using the standard can be used locally to plan, commission, monitor and improve NHS Health Check services.

The standard encompasses: anonymised demographic data; a limited set of clinical observations including the person’s NHS Health Check risk score result; a limited set of health interventions such as signposting to relevant activities/services.

This standard does not specify all the data that would be recorded about individuals who access the NHS Health Check programme. Exchange of information among providers and commissioners in support of managing NHS Health Checks pathway is also out of scope. This includes electronic communication between general practices and alternate service providers of NHS Health Checks such as pharmacies.

About this change

Minor Amendments to Align Data Set and XML Schema

The NHS Health Check dataset and the XML schema have been amended to correct the alignment between the dataset and the released XML schema.

Changes made are:

• 11100330 - SMOKING STATUS CODE (Person Observation Section), attribute for “Unknown” value should be “Z” (not 9) as per national mandated code.