Sources
This register preserves 196 source identities, reviewed at the 3 November 2026 baseline. The main question is what healthcare and social care organisations must send digitally or make digitally available across the four UK nations. Individual care is the primary use; planning, research and public health are also covered. Publicly funded healthcare is central, with private providers compared.
Read the digital requirements table, worked examples, evidence matrix and local research review together. This is the detailed evidence endpoint. Start with the home answer or a worked exchange for the explanation. Each numeric citation returns to its exact source row. The external link identifies the authority. The national service-report comparison explains the selected planning, activity and payment reports in plain language. Inclusion does not make a source a legal obligation. Statutes, directions, contracts, standards, professional rules and operational descriptions have different effects. The actual provider, version, service and trigger must match.
| ID | Authority | Role, scope and limitation | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|---|
| SRC-001 | UK GDPR Article 6 — UK legislation | Legislation; UK. Status: Current framework; check amended text. Choose and document a purpose-specific lawful basis. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-002 | UK GDPR Article 9 — UK legislation | Legislation; UK. Status: Current framework. Health data needs an additional special-category condition and safeguards. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-003 | Data Protection Act 2018 Schedule 1 — UK Parliament | Legislation; UK. Status: Current; amended text must be checked. Domestic conditions support specified Article 9 grounds; not all grounds have identical documentation requirements. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-004 | Human Rights Act 1998 section 6 and Schedule 1 — UK Parliament | Legislation; UK. Status: Current framework. Public authority acts must be compatible with Convention rights; analyse Article 8 and the statutory public-function boundary. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-005 | Data sharing: a code of practice — Information Commissioner | Statutory code; UK. Status: Official guidance; check updates. Controller sharing requires a lawful, fair, accountable arrangement; an agreement cannot supply missing authority. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-006 | Disclosing patients’ personal information: a framework — General Medical Council | Professional guidance; UK doctors. Status: Current official page; NI implementation statement needs local reconciliation. Confidentiality, direct-care consent and data-protection bases are separate. Paragraph 20 is not evidence that NI machinery is operational. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-007 | National Health Service Act 2006 — UK Parliament | Legislation; Predominantly England; provision-specific extent. Status: Revised statutory framework. Identify the specific NHS body function and any directions or delegations. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-008 | Health and Social Care Act 2012 section 250 — UK Parliament | Legislation; England-facing health/adult social care functions. Status: Amended text includes 2025/2026 changes. Information standards must identify recipients; compliance depends on the standard and applicable transition. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-009 | Health and Social Care Act 2012 section 250A — UK Parliament | Legislation; IT standards under the England-facing section 250 framework. Status: Inserted by DUAA; commencement 5 February 2026. Section 250A permits IT standards about design, contracts, connectivity, interoperability, portability and security. Relevant IT provider definitions are in section 250(7). | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-010 | Health and Social Care Act 2012 section 251B — UK Parliament | Legislation; Care in England; defined relevant persons. Status: In force; official XML retrieved. Individual-care sharing duty has objection and other exceptions; subsection 5 preserves data protection and common-law confidence. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-011 | Health and Social Care Act 2012 section 259 — UK Parliament | Legislation; Specified collection powers; person/function dependent. Status: Current framework; exact notice required. National collection requests need their actual direction, notice, purpose and statutory scope. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-012 | National Health Service Act 2006 section 251 — UK Parliament | Legislation; England and Wales framework. Status: Enabling framework; approval-specific. Read with COPI regulations and the exact approval; not a general research exemption. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-013 | Guidance for CAG applicants — Health Research Authority | Official guidance; England and Wales; approval and policy distinctions. Status: Current official page. Support addresses confidentiality for defined use; data protection and security remain separate. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-014 | Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 Schedule 15 paragraph 3 — UK Parliament | Legislation; England-facing information standards. Status: Commenced 5 February 2026 by SI 2026/82. Extends standards framework to technology and suppliers; identify operative standards. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-015 | Health and Social Care Information Standards (Procedure) Regulations 2025 — UK Government | Regulations; England standards procedure. Status: 2025 instrument; use current text. Procedure for preparing and publishing standards; not a disclosure gateway. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-016 | Legislative changes and mandatory Information Standards — NHS England | Official guidance; England. Status: Edited 11 February 2026; legislation takes precedence. Examine each Information Standards Notice for legal duty, audience and timescale. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-017 | Health Bill: parliamentary stages — UK Parliament | Bill status; UK bill; clause-specific extent. Status: Lords committee from 28 October 2026; not an Act at baseline. Proposed single-patient-record reforms must remain prospective. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-018 | Regulation 17: Good governance — Care Quality Commission | Regulator guidance with regulation; England registered regulated activities. Status: Official guidance updated 16 May 2025. Secure accurate complete contemporaneous care records and governance apply to registered persons, including private providers. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-019 | Understanding accessibility requirements for public sector bodies — Government Digital Service | Official guidance; UK; organisation/content-specific exemptions. Status: Official current guidance. Public-sector web/app duties and disability reasonable adjustments; NI uses DDA rather than Equality Act. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-020 | Procurement Act: devolved contracting authorities — Cabinet Office | Official guidance; England Wales NI; limited Scottish application. Status: Current framework; transitional rules material. Devolved Scottish procurement remains distinct; classify authority, contract and commencement. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-021 | NHS Provider Selection Regime — NHS England | Official guidance; England relevant authorities and healthcare services. Status: In force 1 January 2024. Ordinary goods and non-healthcare IT services are outside PSR unless mixed-procurement rules apply. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-022 | Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018 — UK Government | Regulations; UK; operator and sector specific. Status: Current framework; check amendments and designation. Essential-service cyber duties depend on operator designation/scope and national competent authority. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-023 | Data Security and Protection Toolkit — NHS England | Assurance standard; NHS information/system access and applicable contracts. Status: Current directory entry. Assurance evidence does not establish lawful use or override confidentiality. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-024 | What are the conditions for processing? — Information Commissioner | Official guidance; UK. Status: Official indexed extract; direct retrieval blocked. Article 9(2)(h) health/social care requires domestic-law and confidentiality safeguards. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-025 | Public task — Information Commissioner | Official guidance; UK. Status: Official indexed extract; direct retrieval blocked. Legal authority must support the particular controller’s task; funding alone does not confer another body’s power. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-026 | National data opt-out overview — NHS | Official patient guidance; England. Status: Current scheme; detailed exceptions require policy check. Not a UK-wide opt-out and not generally an objection to sharing for individual care. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-027 | The Caldicott Principles — National Data Guardian | Official principles; Published for England; other nations have their own adoption. Status: Published 8 December 2020. Justify purpose, minimise information, protect confidentiality and enable appropriate sharing; not a standalone statute. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-028 | Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 — Information Commissioner | Official status guidance; UK data protection; provision-specific health scope. Status: Enacted 19 June 2025; phased commencement. Do not use an unrevised pre-DUAA summary as the complete current law. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-029 | Does an organisation always need consent? — Information Commissioner | Official guidance; UK. Status: Updated 23 October 2026. Current summary lists recognised legitimate interests alongside other bases; health data still needs Article 9 analysis. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-030 | UK Parliament design system: colour — UK Parliament | Design reference; Visual reference only. Status: Deep purple #373151 verified. Deep purple #373151 is the confirmed colour seed. The user later requested the exact source logo/favicon; their separate rights and provenance are recorded in sources 131–133. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-041 | National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006: Special Health Authorities — UK Parliament / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; Welsh NHS; Special Health Authorities. Status: Enacted; revised text requires transaction-date checks. Sections 22–24 provide establishment and direction machinery; institutional powers do not decide every disclosure. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-042 | Digital Health and Care Wales (No.2) Directions 2021 — Welsh Ministers | Statutory directions; DHCW digital functions under NHS (Wales) Act 2006. Status: Effective 1 April 2021; official published instrument. Directions 3–6 concern services, common standards, security and planning; direction 3(4) preserves legal disclosure prohibitions. References establishment Order SI 2020/1451. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-043 | Collection of data for secondary use purposes by Digital Health and Care Wales — Welsh Government | Ministerial departmental functions letter; DHCW data collection and use; former NWIS systems. Status: Dated 31 March 2021; official functions clarification. Confirms direct/indirect-care functions and annexed uses; read alongside the Functions Directions, confidentiality and data protection. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-044 | Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 — National Assembly for Wales / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; Welsh social services and health/social-care cooperation. Status: Revised service reports changes known in force to 2 November 2026; prospective changes flagged. Sections 162(7)(c), 164 and 164A supply bounded information/cooperation provisions; inspect purposes, exceptions and current wording. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-045 | Wales Accord on the Sharing of Personal Information, version 5.2 — WASPI | Information-sharing governance framework; Public, private and voluntary partner organisations in Wales. Status: Official indexed v5.2 PDF; direct retrieval intermittently returned HTTP 502. Requires general power, confidentiality and data-protection justification; an accord or agreement does not create missing legal authority. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-046 | Welsh Control Standard for electronic health and care records, version 4.0 — Digital Health and Care Wales | National-system participation and assurance standard; Shared electronic records for direct care in Wales. Status: Historical v4; superseded for the current assessment by SRC-200 v5. Retain the original evidence; remove the current operative-version gap. Version 5 front date: 4 August 2025; review: 4 August 2027; effective footer: 28 July 2025. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-047 | Data Standards Change Notices — Digital Health and Care Wales / Welsh Information Standards Board | Standards governance and notice register; NHS Wales, relevant partners and suppliers within each notice. Status: Live official register with 2026 notices. Describes DSCNs as mandates following WISB approval; scope, recipients, implementation date and specification require notice-specific checks. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-048 | Delivery of the Welsh emergency care data set (WHC/2026/031) — Welsh Government | Welsh health circular; operational mandate; Health-board-operated/hosted major emergency departments and minor injury units. Status: WHC2026/031 current reporting mandate. Implementation by 31 March 2027 replaces 1 April 2026; daily unvalidated information and monthly validated information by the 10th calendar day; major ED/MIU scope, with SDEC excluded. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-049 | Records management code of practice for health and social care 2022 — Welsh Government | Records-management guidance; NHS Wales and contractors; adult social care; shared records. Status: Published February 2022; official current publication located. Includes NHS-commissioned private care and guidance for purely private providers; historical 2002 private-healthcare regulatory references need current-law checks. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-050 | Independent Health Care (Wales) Regulations 2011 — Welsh Ministers / legislation.gov.uk | Secondary legislation; Regulated independent healthcare establishments and agencies in Wales. Status: Enacted; inspect revised text and service-specific application. Regulations 9 and 23 concern policies, comprehensive records, security and retention; paper or electronic records permitted. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-051 | Guidance for Applicants — Healthcare Inspectorate Wales | Regulator registration guidance; Independent healthcare and private dental services in Wales. Status: Current official guidance retrieved. Explains service categories and online private GP application; private dentistry has separate 2017 regulations; actual service facts determine registration. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-052 | Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025: implementation overview — Welsh Government | Official legislation and commencement overview; Welsh social-care regulation and continuing-healthcare direct payments. Status: Royal Assent 24 March 2025; phased commencement and 2026 subordinate legislation. Not an omnibus digital-interoperability law; rely on provision-specific commencement rather than overview alone for a live decision. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-061 | National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, section 2A — UK Parliament | primary legislation; Scotland; specified NHS bodies. Status: current revised text reviewed. Broad health-improvement duties and supporting powers; not blanket disclosure permission. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-062 | Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014, section 49 — Scottish Parliament | primary legislation; Scotland; local authorities, Health Boards and integration joint boards. Status: current revised text reviewed. Bounded integration information-sharing powers with express confidentiality override. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-063 | Care Reform (Scotland) Act 2025 — Scottish Parliament | primary legislation; Scotland; digital care records, sharing schemes and standards. Status: Enacted framework; section 1 commenced; sections 2–7 recorded prospective at 3 November 2026. Enacted PDF establishes framework and scope. Dated revised-status source SRC-111 and effects register SRC-112 establish the current section-specific position; do not use enacted wording as proof of commencement. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-064 | Care Reform (Scotland) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2025, schedule Part 1 — Scottish Ministers | commencement regulations; Scotland; provisions listed in schedule. Status: in force; sections 1 and 24 commenced 7 January 2026. Commences sections 1 and 24 on 7 January 2026 and omits sections 2–7. Complete effects check SRC-112 corroborates that no later ss2–7 commencement is recorded at 3 November 2026. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-065 | Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007, section 5A — Scottish Parliament | primary legislation; Scotland; defined relevant healthcare services and public bodies. Status: current provision; commenced 7 January 2026. Permissive reporting and information exchange to assist adult-protection inquiries. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-066 | Intra-NHS Scotland Information Sharing Accord 2020 — NHS Scotland | information-sharing accord; NHS Scotland organisations; healthcare sharing. Status: published governance agreement; not legislation. Supports proportionate healthcare sharing subject to legal and governance controls. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-067 | Patient Rights (Scotland) Act 2011 — Scottish Parliament | primary legislation; Scotland; NHS healthcare and relevant providers. Status: enacted text used for stable principles; current application requires scope check. Patient confidentiality, participation, communication and safety principles. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-068 | PBPP/SG-NRS Approval Pathway — Research Data Scotland | official operational guidance; Scotland; research access to NHS-originated and other public-sector data. Status: current official guidance reviewed. PBPP scrutiny, local Caldicott/R&D routes and cross-nation approvals; not independent statutory authority. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-069 | Clinical governance Standard 7: data and information — Healthcare Improvement Scotland | clinical governance standard; Scotland health and care governance. Status: published standard; binding route requires context. Integrated records, safe transfers, privacy, security, records and continuity assurance. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-070 | Public Records (Scotland) Act 2011, section 1 — Scottish Parliament | primary legislation; Scotland; applicable authorities and public records. Status: current revised text reviewed. Requires records management plans agreed with Keeper and compliance with agreed plans. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-071 | NHS (Scotland) Act 1978 (Independent Health Care) Modification Order 2024: policy note — Scottish Government | official statutory-instrument policy note; Scotland; independent healthcare service definitions. Status: 2024 reform explanation; service-specific current scope requires checking. Explains pharmacist/pharmacy technician and independent medical agency/online service changes. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-072 | The Christian Institute and others v Lord Advocate [2016] UKSC 51 — UK Supreme Court | judgment; Scotland; named-person information-sharing provisions and Article 8. Status: judgment delivered 28 July 2016. Legal-quality and proportionality safeguards; not prohibition of lawful safeguarding sharing. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-081 | Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 — Northern Ireland Assembly / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; Northern Ireland public HSC framework. Status: Enacted and amended; current organisational provisions require revised-text checks. Section 2 general duty includes integrated HSC, provision and standards; section 3 general power. Does not decide all data disclosures. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-082 | Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 — Northern Ireland Assembly / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; Regional Board dissolution and transfer of functions. Status: Enacted; official service flags amendments/prospective changes. Sections 1 and 2 address dissolution and transfer; identify current owner instead of relying on obsolete HSC Board labels. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-083 | Code of Practice on Protecting the Confidentiality of Service User Information — Department of Health Northern Ireland | Confidentiality code and guidance; Identifiable HSC service-user information in Northern Ireland. Status: Published 29 April 2019; current official publication located. Describes consent, statutory requirement and overriding substantial public interest routes; assess confidentiality separately from data protection. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-084 | Health and Social Care (Control of Data Processing) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 — Northern Ireland Assembly / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; revised text and official XML; Northern Ireland HSC data-processing framework and implementing powers. Status: Act commenced 12 April 2016 under section 6(2); implementing approval machinery remains pending on the official record reviewed. Royal Assent was 11 April 2016. Sections 1 and 2 require regulations and a statutory committee; section 4 requires draft affirmative approval. Current XML and changes register show 2018 and 2022 effects, not a 2026 amendment. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-085 | Committee for Health: Control of Data Processing Bill evidence, 26 March 2026 — Northern Ireland Assembly; Department of Health witnesses | Official parliamentary evidence; Defects preventing implementation of the NI 2016 secondary-use machinery. Status: Dated direct evidence of pending implementation; corroborated by later answers and current official trackers. Officials described definitional repairs and unfinished regulations, statutory committee, statutory code and opt-out. Read with the 2026 follow-up records; the hearing alone does not establish November status. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-086 | Digital Health and Care Northern Ireland — Department of Health / HSCNI Strategic Planning and Performance Group | Official digital governance description; Regional HSC digital strategy, investment, policies and standards. Status: Official live page; contains historical organisational descriptions. Describes DHCNI's lead role; confirm current owner and applicable authority per system rather than treating programme remit as disclosure power. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-087 | encompass — Digital Health and Care Northern Ireland | Official programme implementation description; Regional HSC digital care record and patient access. Status: Official page records geographic-trust rollout through May 2025. Supports deployment chronology; not evidence that every GP system, private service or dataset is fully integrated. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-088 | Independent Health Care Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 — Northern Ireland Department of Health / legislation.gov.uk | Secondary legislation; Regulated independent health establishments and agencies in Northern Ireland. Status: Enacted; service-specific scope and amendments require checks. Regulation 21 and Schedule 3 concern comprehensive records, security and retention; no universal electronic-interface duty inferred. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-089 | Registration Guidance — Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority | Regulator registration guidance; Independent and statutory HSC service categories in Northern Ireland. Status: Current official registration page retrieved. Lists independent clinics, hospitals, medical agencies and other regulated categories; replaced an intermittently inaccessible 2025–26 PDF for baseline registration claims. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-090 | NIS Competent Authority: About us — Department of Finance Northern Ireland | Official competent-authority guidance; NIS operators of essential services, including NI health sector. Status: Current official designation description retrieved. DoF is NI competent authority for health OES; organisation/service scope must be assessed before applying particular NIS duties. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-091 | Regulation of medical devices in Northern Ireland — Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency | Official product-regulation guidance; Devices and IVDs placed on the Northern Ireland market. Status: Updated 11 June 2026; EU MDR/IVDR and transition rules described. Windsor Framework produces distinct NI/GB device regimes; product assessment is separate from lawful patient-data processing. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-092 | Understanding accessibility requirements for public sector bodies — Government Digital Service / Central Digital and Data Office | Official accessibility guidance; UK public-sector websites/apps, with NI disability-law distinction. Status: Updated 30 September 2024; current official guidance retrieved. Explains 2018 accessibility regulations, scope/exceptions and Northern Ireland Disability Discrimination Act 1995 distinction from Equality Act 2010. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-101 | DCB0129: Clinical Risk Management in the Manufacture of Health IT Systems — NHS England | information standard; Development and maintenance of health IT; notice and adoption scope apply. Status: 2018 release; review underway. Manufacturer clinical risk management; does not itself classify software as a medical device. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-102 | DCB0160: Clinical Risk Management in the Deployment and Use of Health IT Systems — NHS England | information standard; Deploying health and care organisations; notice and adoption scope apply. Status: 2018 release; review underway. Deployment, use, maintenance and decommissioning; local assurance distinct from supplier safety case. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-103 | National review of DCB0129 and DCB0160: supporting information — NHS England | official consultation supporting information; England information-standard framework; current DCB releases. Status: published 29 June 2026; consultation is not a replacement standard. Explains amended powers and continued have-regard treatment of existing standards; distinguish future revisions. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-104 | Medical devices: software applications — MHRA | regulatory guidance; Software qualification and classification; market-specific law applies. Status: current official landing page; attachments last updated July 2023. Assess intended medical purpose and functionality; not all healthcare software is a device. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-105 | Regulating medical devices in the UK — MHRA | regulatory guidance; Great Britain and Northern Ireland; distinct regimes. Status: updated 20 February 2026. UK MDR 2002 in GB; EU MDR/IVDR in NI; marking, registration and transition distinctions. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-106 | General information on the Health Institution Exemption — MHRA | regulatory guidance; Great Britain; qualifying health institutions, public and private. Status: updated 20 January 2026. Distinguishes statutory IVD exemption from guidance approach for general devices; legal entity, premises and transfer limits. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-107 | Regulation of medical devices in Northern Ireland — MHRA | regulatory guidance; Northern Ireland; devices, IVDs, institutions and investigations. Status: updated 11 June 2026. EU MDR/IVDR, Article 5(5) health-institution route, marking, EUDAMED and investigation arrangements. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-108 | Medical devices: post-market surveillance — MHRA | regulatory guidance collection; Great Britain; manufacturer post-market surveillance. Status: amended requirements effective 16 June 2025. Part 4A UK MDR 2002; incident, trend and corrective-action obligations and product applicability. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-109 | Digital Technology Assessment Criteria guidance for buyers and suppliers — NHS England | assurance framework guidance; England NHS and adult social care digital health technology procurement. Status: updated 21 September 2026; revised 2026 form. Five assurance areas; complements other approvals; prior form not for use from 6 April 2026. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-110 | Artificial intelligence and innovative technologies — General Medical Council | professional regulatory guidance; UK; doctors, physician associates and anaesthesia associates. Status: current professional guidance reviewed. Professional judgment, responsibility, competence, patient discussion and safety reporting; not a device approval. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-111 | Care Reform (Scotland) Act 2025, Part 1: revised status at 3 November 2026 — Scottish Parliament / The National Archives legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; dated revised text and official XML status; Scotland; sections 1–7. Status: Section 1 in force; sections 2–7 explicitly prospective in official revised record checked 3 November 2026. Dated Part 1 and each individual section XML checked. P1group Status=Prospective for all ss2–7; s1 RestrictStartDate=2026-01-07. Distinguishes current status from original not-in-force-at-Royal-Assent annotations. Editorial update limits remain. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-112 | Changes affecting Care Reform (Scotland) Act 2025: complete official effects table — The National Archives legislation.gov.uk | Official legislation effects register; complete CSV query; Recorded changes and commencement effects affecting 2025 asp 9. Status: 60 rows retrieved with 200 requested; affecting instruments limited to 2025 asp 9 and SSI 2025/388. No later commencement effect recorded for ss2–7. Corroborating official title search found only Commencement No.1; 2026 SSI full-text search for the Act returned unrelated care-home/cancellation instruments, not a Part 1 scheme. This is recorded-status evidence, not assurance against editorial delay. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-113 | Care Reform (Scotland) Act 2025: Explanatory Notes — Scottish Government / legislation.gov.uk | Official explanatory notes; Explanation of Care Reform Act 2025; Part 1 information framework. Status: Published notes to enacted Act; explanatory rather than operative law. Paragraphs 18–20 distinguish withdrawal and public availability of standards and the section 7 duty, once commenced, to specify the information-standards website domain by regulations. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-114 | Health and Social Care Data Board minutes: August 2026 — Scottish Government | Official governance meeting minutes; Scotland; proposed national health/social-care standards governance. Status: Meeting 25 August 2026; published 28 September 2026. Describes proposed Data Standards Assurance and Decision Boards, draft terms and transition arrangements. Does not itself commence legislation or issue a statutory standard. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-115 | UK Covid-19 Inquiry Module 3 report: Scottish Government response, recommendation 4 — Scottish Government | Official implementation response and programme commitments; Scotland; digital records, diagnostic coding and data-sharing capability. Status: Published 17 September 2026; programme expectations distinguished from legal commencement. Anticipates national Digital Health and Care Record phased over five to ten years and an outline business case by summer 2027. Describing enacted standards powers does not supply a commencement instrument. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-121 | Changes affecting the Health and Social Care (Control of Data Processing) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 — The National Archives / legislation.gov.uk | Official legislative changes register; All recorded effects on the NI 2016 Act. Status: Current register checked 3 November 2026; three applied effects. Records two Data Protection Act 2018 amendments and one Health and Social Care Act (NI) 2022 modification. No 2026 amendment appears; publication coverage is not a substitute for a future legislative check. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-122 | Northern Ireland Assembly: Primary Legislation, Bills 2022–2027 Mandate — Northern Ireland Assembly | Official Bill-stage tracker; Executive and other Bills introduced in the current Assembly mandate. Status: Live tracker reviewed 3 November 2026; proceedings heading 14 October 2026, with an entry dated 19 October. No Health and Social Care data-processing amendment Bill entry appears. This corroborates pending introduction; respect the tracker publication date rather than presenting absence as proof of every unpublished event. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-123 | AQW 48785/22-27: proposed data-processing amendment Bill, answered 25 June 2026 — Northern Ireland Assembly; Minister of Health | Official written ministerial answer; Status and intended introduction of the NI data-processing amendment Bill. Status: Answered 25 June 2026. Minister said work was continuing and expected introduction later in the mandate, subject to Assembly timetable and Executive processes. This is an intention, not introduction or enactment evidence. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-124 | AQW 47747/22-27: proposed data-processing amendment Bill, answered 30 June 2026 — Northern Ireland Assembly; Minister of Health | Official written ministerial answer; Further projected introduction timetable for the NI amendment Bill. Status: Answered 30 June 2026. Minister sought June 2026 introduction, subject to Executive and Assembly processes. Read alongside the differently framed 25 June projection; neither answer proves actual introduction. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-125 | AQW 51271/22-27: NI data-processing Bill introduction question, tabled 8 September 2026 — Northern Ireland Assembly Open Data | Official current written-question record; Later parliamentary question about introduction of the NI data-processing Bill. Status: Tabled 8 September 2026; no AnsweredOnDate or AnswerPlainText in the official record retrieved 3 November 2026. The unanswered question does not establish a ministerial position. It confirms that this later record supplies no replacement introduction date or completed-implementation evidence. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-126 | AQW 38522/22-27: secondary health-data policy and implementation, answered 12 February 2026 — Northern Ireland Assembly; Minister of Health | Official written ministerial answer; NI secondary-use regulations, statutory code and existing confidentiality guidance. Status: Answered 12 February 2026; current register checks used to test subsequent changes. Explicitly describes regulations and a replacement statutory Code as future work, while identifying the existing confidentiality code. Does not provide a standalone departmental permission to reuse identifiable data. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-127 | Committee for Health: delegated-legislation tracker, 2026 — Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Health | Official statutory-rule scrutiny tracker; Committee scrutiny of delegated legislation from 5 January 2026 onwards. Status: Current published tracker reviewed 3 November 2026. No rule implementing the 2016 data-processing framework is listed. This is corroborating current-index evidence with a stated 2026 coverage boundary, not proof about every possible differently titled or unpublished instrument. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-128 | Privacy Advisory Committee: reference documents and existing confidentiality code — HSC Privacy Advisory Committee Northern Ireland | Official reference-document page; Continued public availability of the existing HSC confidentiality guidance. Status: Live official page checked 3 November 2026; describes review in late 2018. Identifies the existing Code of Practice as confidentiality guidance. Its continued publication does not establish a new statutory committee or an approval under regulations made under the 2016 Act. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-131 | Acts of Parliament — source page and identity assets — UK Parliament | Design reference and asset provenance; Visual reference only. Status: Rendered page inspected; exact SVG and ICO acquired. Inline a.parliament-home SVG and /img/favicon.ico are retained unaltered with hashes in the project brand metadata. No official wiki status is implied. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-132 | Parliamentary Copyright — UK Parliament | Published reuse terms; Parliamentary material; specific exclusions. Status: Current published terms reviewed. The Open Parliament Licence excludes the Crowned Portcullis; public availability does not grant a general licence for the emblem. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-133 | The Crowned Portcullis — use of the House emblem — UK Parliament | Emblem use statement; Crowned Portcullis and parliamentary symbols. Status: Current published statement reviewed. Avoid use that could wrongly imply authority of the House. The wiki is labelled independent; its project permission basis is recorded separately in LICENSING.md. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-141 | Health and Social Care Act 2012 section 251C: continuity of information interpretation — UK Parliament | Primary legislation; Defined commissioners/providers and direct care in England; cross-border function analysis may matter. Status: Current dated XML reviewed at 3 November 2026; section 251C(6A)/(7) amendments effective 7 July 2025. Defines covered public functions, non-public provision under public arrangements, health services in England, and direct rather than trial/study/audit facilitation. Read with exclusions regulations. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-142 | Health and Social Care Act 2012 section 251A: consistent identifiers — UK Parliament | Primary legislation; Defined relevant commissioners/providers processing information to facilitate individual care in England. Status: Current dated XML reviewed at 3 November 2026; operative section. Qualified consistent-identifier duty; purpose, best interests, objections, anonymous services and preservation of data protection and confidence remain material. Does not establish universal linking or access. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-143 | Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Continuity of Information: Interpretation) Regulations 2015 — Secretary of State for Health / UK legislation | Secondary legislation; England; excluded persons/functions for sections 251A–251C. Status: In force 1 October 2015; current XML schedule inspected. Regulation 2 and Schedule exclude listed children’s social-care and education persons/functions. Not a blanket exclusion of all children’s NHS treatment. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-144 | National Health Service Act 2006 section 82: NHS/local-authority cooperation — UK Parliament | Primary legislation; NHS bodies and local authorities in England and Wales; England guidance duty separately limited. Status: Current XML reviewed at 3 November 2026. Cooperation duty advances health and welfare in England and Wales. Do not label the whole section England-only or convert cooperation into unlimited patient-record access. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-145 | Care Act 2014 section 6: general cooperation — UK Parliament | Primary legislation; England local-authority adult-care and carer functions; defined relevant partners including NHS bodies. Status: Current XML reviewed at 3 November 2026. Reciprocal cooperation duty for defined functions, partners and purposes, with express statutory qualifications. Supports joined-up care without being a universal disclosure gateway. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-146 | Care Act 2014 section 7: cooperation in specific cases — UK Parliament | Primary legislation; England; qualifying individual adult-care/carer cooperation requests. Status: Current XML reviewed at 3 November 2026. Qualifying requested cooperation is mandatory unless incompatible with own duties or adversely affecting functions; refusal requires written reasons. Read with section 6 definitions. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-147 | Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 section 164 — National Assembly for Wales | Primary legislation; Welsh local-authority social-services requests to specified partners and bodies. Status: Current XML reviewed at 3 November 2026. Duty to cooperate/provide required information upon qualifying request, subject to own-duty incompatibility/adverse-function exceptions and written reasons. Direction of the request and prescribed recipient scope matter. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-148 | Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 section 165 — National Assembly for Wales | Primary legislation; Welsh local-authority social-services integration with health and health-related provision. Status: Current XML reviewed at 3 November 2026. Integration duty where authority considers statutory well-being, prevention or quality conditions met; does not itself prescribe an electronic interface or universal confidentiality override. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-149 | National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 section 12: Local Health Board functions — UK Parliament | Primary legislation; Welsh Ministers’ directions and Local Health Board health-service functions. Status: Current XML reviewed at 3 November 2026. Permits Welsh Ministers to assign specified health-service functions and direct their exercise. An actual organisation/function still needs its current directions. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-151 | National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, section 13: co-operation — UK Parliament / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; current revised text and XML; Scotland; listed NHS, local-authority, integration and education bodies exercising their functions. Status: Current revised section checked 3 November 2026. Requires listed bodies to cooperate in exercising their respective functions to secure and advance health. This organisational duty is not an unrestricted patient-record disclosure command. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-152 | Patient Rights (Scotland) Act 2011: current patient rights and healthcare principles — Scottish Parliament / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; current revised text and XML; Scotland; NHS healthcare, relevant NHS bodies and contracted health services. Status: Sections 3, 5–7 and schedule checked in current revised text on 3 November 2026. Section 3 addresses patient-focused care, participation and information/support. Section 5 requires relevant NHS bodies to uphold relevant principles and ensure contracted care providers do so. Principles include confidentiality, clear accessible communication and avoiding preventable harm. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-153 | How the NHS handles your personal health information — NHS inform / NHS Scotland | Official patient-facing data-protection and confidentiality explanation; NHS Scotland controllers and handling of personal health information. Status: Official page last updated 27 July 2026; direct HTML retrieved 3 November 2026. Explains NHS Scotland public-interest task for health/social care, the sensitive-data care condition, necessary/proportionate sharing and use of relevant clinical information. Guidance explains the legal framework rather than creating a gateway. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-154 | Records Management Code of Practice for Health and Social Care 2024: lifecycle and sharing records — Scottish Government | Official records-management code of practice; legal and professional guidance; NHS Scotland organisations and those working with or under contract to them, including joint social care and contracted processors/providers. Status: Version 4.0 effective 30 August 2024; current official publication reviewed 3 November 2026. Section 4.10 covers transfer safeguards, distributed digital records, partner arrangements and documented sharing. Paragraph 114 addresses accuracy, availability, security and digital audit trails. The code is an implementation framework; specific legal duties retain their own statutory source. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-161 | NI confidentiality Code of Practice, April 2019: direct-care and inter-agency guidance — Department of Health Northern Ireland / Privacy Advisory Committee | Official confidentiality code; version 2.0; Direct care, multidisciplinary teams and planned inter-agency involvement; principally paragraphs 3.3–3.12. Status: Current official PDF linked by the Department publication page, retrieved 3 November 2026. Paragraphs 3.7–3.9 distinguish care-team sharing from planned involvement of another agency, for which discussion and explicit consent are advised. Guidance is distinct from a new statutory disclosure power. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-162 | Northern Ireland Ambulance Service: Privacy Notice — Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Health and Social Care Trust | Controller privacy notice and operational explanation; NIAS direct-care processing, electronic referrals and public-task explanation. Status: Live official notice reviewed 3 November 2026. Describes necessary electronic handover to hospital or approved care pathways and identifies public task plus health/social-care conditions. This illustrates one Trust’s practice; it does not legislate for every provider. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-163 | Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991, Article 10B — UK legislation / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; current revised provision; Departmental functions exercisable by an HSC Trust under delegation directions. Status: Current revised Article 10B and official XML reviewed 3 November 2026. Department may direct specified functions to be exercised by a specified HSC Trust on its behalf. Actual delegated functions matter; integrated organisation alone does not authorise every disclosure. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-164 | Nursing Homes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005, regulation 19 — Northern Ireland Department of Health / legislation.gov.uk | Secondary legislation; current revised provision; Patient records and confidentiality in registered nursing homes. Status: Current revised text and official XML reviewed 3 November 2026. Requires patient records, secure handling and confidentiality. Paragraph (5) limits disclosure to specified care, risk and administration purposes; it is not unrestricted shared-record access. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-165 | Domiciliary Care Agencies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007, Part III — Northern Ireland Department of Health / legislation.gov.uk | Secondary legislation; current revised provisions; Regulation 19 information disclosure and regulation 21 records for regulated domiciliary care agencies. Status: Current revised text and official XML of regulations 19 and 21 reviewed 3 November 2026. Disclosure must be necessary for an effective service to the service user. Agency records and the home-held care plan/service record must be current, orderly and secure. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-171 | UK GDPR Article 5: principles relating to processing — UK legislation | Legislation; UK personal-data processing. Status: Current amended official text reviewed. Purpose, minimisation, accuracy, security and accountability apply to individual-care sharing. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-172 | UK GDPR Chapter IV: controller and processor — UK legislation | Legislation; UK; controller and processor responsibilities. Status: Current amended official text reviewed. Articles 24–28, 32 and 35 address accountability, design, role arrangements, security and high-risk impact assessment; conditions remain provision-specific. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-173 | UK GDPR Chapter III: rights of the data subject — UK legislation | Legislation; UK; patient personal-data rights within applicable conditions. Status: Current amended official text reviewed. Transparency, access, correction and other rights have their own conditions and exceptions; amended request-handling and complaints text must be used. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-174 | Using and disclosing patient information for direct care — General Medical Council | Professional guidance; GMC registrants; UK, subject to applicable national law. Status: Current official direct-care guidance reviewed. Defines direct care and supporting staff; implied consent has conditions; unexpected sharing, objections, capacity and interagency context need attention. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-175 | The Code: professional standards for nurses, midwives and nursing associates — Nursing and Midwifery Council | Professional standards; UK nurses/midwives; nursing associates in England. Status: Current published Code reviewed. Privacy, communication, appropriate sharing and records are professional responsibilities; this is not an independent statutory disclosure gateway. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-176 | Standards of conduct, performance and ethics — Health and Care Professions Council | Professional standards; HCPC registrants within their professional scope. Status: Published standards effective from 1 September 2024; current page reviewed. Sections 2.7 and 5 connect appropriate care-team sharing with confidentiality; professional standards do not displace applicable law. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-181 | NHS Standard Contract 2026/27: Service Conditions, full length — NHS England | National model contract; England; parties using the full-length 2026/27 contract and its stated service categories. Status: January 2026 version 1; current publisher-linked service conditions checked. SC11.5–11.8, SC23.4–23.7 and SC28 distinguish concrete transmission/access duties, conditional standards conformance and reporting. SC24 is counter-fraud. Actual signed contract, category and local schedules remain necessary. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-182 | NHS Standard Contract 2026/27: General Conditions, full length — NHS England | National model contract and definitions; England; relevant full-length contract parties. Status: Cover identifies 2026/27 version 1, January 2026 despite legacy 2526 filename. Definitions on pp. 54–55: the GP Delivery Method is direct automatic EPR transfer. Other referrers and health or social-care recipients can receive automatic transfer or secure email under a protocol. A Discharge Summary must be structured/narrative and SNOMED-capable; DAPB4042 wording is may conform. Read these definitions with SC11 and SC28. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-183 | National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015: digital records provisions — UK Parliament | Secondary legislation: prescribed GMS contract terms; NHS England GMS contracts; England application despite E+W legislative extent. Status: Dated revised XML at 3 November 2026 inspected. Regulations 68 SCR, 68A GP Connect, 69/69A GP2GP, 70 NHS number and 71ZA/71ZB patient online records. Computerised-record conditions, timing and disclosure exceptions differ. These are not duties for every private GP or a Welsh GMS contract. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-184 | National Health Service (Personal Medical Services Agreements) Regulations 2015: digital records provisions — UK Parliament | Secondary legislation: prescribed PMS agreement terms; England PMS agreements; SCR/GP2GP provisions expressly concern contractors providing essential services. Status: Dated revised XML at 3 November 2026 inspected. Regulations 61 (SCR), 61A (GP Connect), 62/62A (GP2GP), 63 (NHS number) and 64ZA/64ZB (online patient records). Apply each provision’s own contractor, patient and system conditions; do not silently cover all APMS agreements. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-185 | DAPB4042 Amd 75/2021: Information Standards Notice — NHS Digital / DAPB | Section 250 information standards notice; England; acute NHS trusts and NHS-commissioned independent secondary care providing ordinary/day-case admissions. Status: 3 February 2022 notice remains linked as current release on 3 November 2026. Full conformance: 31 October 2022. PRSB content, terminology, FHIR and MESH layers apply to discharge to a GP. The pre-July 2025 saving preserves the old statutory regime; contractual conformance must be assessed separately. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-186 | DAPB4042: Acute Inpatient Discharge Requirements Specification v1.0 — NHS Digital / DAPB | Information standard requirements specification; England; specified acute inpatient/day-case provider-to-GP messages. Status: Version 1.0, 3 February 2022; current release link checked. Sections 1.3, 4 and 5.1 cover FHIR STU3/ITK3/MESH, the narrative-first minimum GP workflow, configured compliant use, local first-of-type and safety evidence. The specification does not govern every transfer or social-care message. R3 implementation wording refers to 1 October 2022, while the ISN gives full conformance as 31 October 2022; preserve the distinct dates. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-187 | DAPB4101 Amd 63/2023: Information Standards Notice, current linked PDF — NHS England / DAPB | Section 250 information standards notice; England laboratory-to-GP direct-care pathology reporting and named provider/supplier roles. Status: 15 April 2024 notice remains the current linked release; its timetable conflicts with the later implementation account. The notice retains 30 April 2025 for full conformance. It specifies pathology UK Core FHIR R4/SNOMED. Read it with the saved statutory regime, current contract and SRC-189 implementation transition. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-188 | DAPB4101: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Reporting Requirements Specification v1.1 — NHS England | Information standard requirements specification; England; lab-to-GP direct-care reporting, five named pathology specialties. Status: Version 1.1 Final, 16 April 2024; current linked specification inspected. Sections 5–7 specify MESH/FHIR UK Core R4, SNOMED reportable/request identifiers, and sender and receiver conformance. The initial scope does not mandate encoding of result values, interpretations, units or specimens, and excludes specified screening EDIFACT variants. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-189 | Pathology and laboratory medicine standards implementation — NHS England | Official implementation status guidance; England DAPB4101 laboratory-to-GP rollout. Status: Page edited 10 July 2026; live publication inspected 3 November 2026. Pilot testing and assurance are intended by April 2027; supplier roadmaps and national rollout follow. SNOMED PBCL continues meanwhile. The conformance date will be extended, but no replacement date is specified. A pilot target is not a new legal deadline. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-190 | ISB0149-02 NHS Number for Secondary Care: Amd 13/2011 notice — Information Standards Board / NHS Connecting for Health | Legacy information standards notice; Secondary-care organisations within applicable English standard/contract. Status: Published 9 May 2012; still linked by the current NHS standard publication. Amendment relaxes verification-status recording and verified-only transmission rules; it does not mandate a digital channel. Scope and any saved statutory/contractual route require assessment; NHS-number use in Wales is separately grounded. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-191 | SCCI0034 SNOMED CT: Amd 35/2016 Information Standards Notice — Department of Health / SCCI | Section 250 information standards notice; Specified NHS/public-health/adult-social-care service organisations and affected systems in England. Status: 2 November 2016 notice; the current standard publication still links it. The deadline for GP systems and communicating coded clinical data is 1 April 2018; for specified other direct-care electronic patient records and communications, it is 1 April 2020. The notice expressly supplies no social-care implementation timetable. Saved statutory have-regard duties and separate contractual conformance must not be conflated. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-192 | Health and Care Act 2022 Commencement No. 10 and Transitional and Saving Provision Regulations 2025 — UK Parliament | Commencement and saving regulations; England information standards; legislative extent England and Wales. Status: Made 7 July 2025; regulation 3 saving inspected. For section 250 standards published and in effect immediately before 7 July 2025, the 2012 Act operates without the section 95 amendments. The new comply framework does not automatically replace their former have-regard regime. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-193 | Commissioning Data Sets: Data Provision Notice v1.0 — NHS Digital; functions now exercised through NHS England | Statutory section 259 data provision notice; England; NHS-funded secondary-care providers/AQPs and NHS private patient units within notice. Status: 13 March 2020 notice remains the publisher’s current linked DPN; collection is ongoing. Pages 3–8 identify the section 259(5) duty, scope, nationally mandated CDS types and secure SUS+ XML manner. The notice contains historical organisation names and v6.2 links. The current type, timetable, exclusions and v6.3 standard need separate reading. It is not permission for any downstream research access. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-194 | DAPB0092 Commissioning Data Sets v6.3: Amd 64/2020 Information Standards Notice — NHS Digital / DAPB | Information standard and statutory collection specification; England; NHS secondary care and NHS-commissioned independent secondary-care providers. Status: 15 June 2021 v6.3 notice inspected; the saved standard regime applies. SUS XML datasets support payment, statistics and planning. Weekly submission is specified for types 020, 120, 130 and 140; other types vary. CDS type 010 A&E is separated into ECDS. Authority for supplying data also rests on the section 259 DPN, independently of the section 250 saving. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-195 | National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2023, revised 3 November 2026 — UK legislation / Welsh Ministers | Legislation prescribing contractual terms; Wales. Status: Revised text dated 3 November 2026; regulation 1 originally commenced on 1 October 2023. Official dated XML was retrieved successfully at /2026-11-03/data.xml; HTML paragraph routes returned 429. Regulation 29 incorporates Schedule 3, subject to applicability and exceptions. Regulation 23 covers GP activity/appointment extraction. Schedule 3 paragraphs 78–81 cover medical records, WGPR/App automated retrieval, GP2GP and the NHS number. These are not wholly private GP contracts. Later effects are present in the revised XML; do not assume the original 2023 wording. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-196 | WHC/2023/018: Introduction of HL7 FHIR as a foundational standard in all NHS Wales Bodies — Welsh Government | Welsh Health Circular / administrative standards mandate; Wales. Status: Status: COMPLIANCE; 14 June 2023; compliance from June 2023. Primary PDF text extraction omits key glyphs, so pp. 2–3 were rendered and inspected. FHIR is the foundation for all IT/digital systems/services. Stable R4 is the suggested default, with explicit WTSB approval for alternatives. The circular sets an exchange standard, not a universal duty to disclose every record or a particular dataset. It states no statutory enabling power. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-197 | WHC/2024/042: Introduction of dictionary of medicines and devices — Welsh Government | Welsh Health Circular / administrative standards mandate; Wales. Status: Status: Compliance; immediate effect; published 30 October 2024; updated 22 January 2025; review 31 January 2028. LHBs, trusts and SHAs use dm+d at the appropriate structural level where a digital system records medication and transfers information to another system. They receive and process codes relevant to the use case, and procure or update accordingly. Medical-device dictionary content is excluded from compliance. No statutory instrument or universal private-provider duty is demonstrated. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-198 | DSCN 2022/76 (AMD): Medicines, Allergies, and Intolerances Interoperability Standards — Digital Health and Care Wales / WISB | Data Standards Change Notice / administrative information mandate; Wales. Status: Amended 22 May 2025; WISB approved 15 May 2025; procurement from 1 November 2022; remaining-systems implementation by 31 July 2024. Actions on pp. 4–5 require NHS Wales organisations/DHCW procurement alignment and supplier contracts addressing compliance, with impact and implementation plans for legacy or not-yet-operational systems. The scope on pp. 6–7 includes NHS-contracted private care and social care, but does not prove each supplier’s executed contract. It standardises an exchange when it occurs; it is not an independent universal duty to create every flow. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-199 | WHC/2026/015: All Wales General Practice and Health Board Clinical Interface Standards — Welsh Government | Welsh Health Circular / professional consensus interface standards; Wales. Status: Current 2026 replacement for WHC 2018/014; Status: Action. The scope on p. 3 expressly covers NHS Wales clinicians communicating between GP and health-board-run services, and private clinicians interfacing with GPs. On p. 4, standard 6 uses must for an agreed electronic method where one exists; on p. 5, standard 9 uses should for eDAL at discharge. Page 3 describes a co-produced consensus document endorsed by medical directors. Do not relabel it as a statutory direction or proved contractual term. Investigation, action and results responsibilities remain; this document establishes no universal national electronic blood-results duty. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-200 | Welsh Control Standard for electronic health and care records v5.0 — Digital Health and Care Wales / WISB | National-system participation and governance standard; Wales. Status: Final v5.0; front date 4 August 2025; next review 4 August 2027; footers give an effective date of 28 July 2025. Supersedes the earlier v4 baseline. Section 2 requires health boards, trusts and other national-system access organisations to sign. Section 6 covers legitimate purpose, local roles, unique NADEX credentials subject to exceptions, access removal and audit. Section 7 covers accuracy and correction. The standard does not itself require all healthcare information to be uploaded or override disclosure law. The date inconsistency is retained. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-201 | WHC 2015/053: Introduction of SNOMED CT as an Information Standard in NHS Wales — Welsh Government | Welsh Health Circular / terminology policy; Wales. Status: 12 November 2015; Status: Action; no expiry/review. For action by LHBs, trusts, GMPs and NWIS. Page 2 says there was no acute/community implementation programme at that time; colleagues were expected to use the terminology in relevant programmes and projects. This is not proof of universally completed migration in 2026 or a standalone duty to send information digitally. The current 2025 medicines DSCN separately references this circular. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-202 | DSCN 2022/16: Core Reference Data Standards — Digital Health and Care Wales / WISB | Data Standards Change Notice / administrative information mandate; Wales. Status: 24 May 2022; phased implementation on 1 April 2022 and 1 April 2023, with immediate procurement requirements. Mandates demographic/reference-data definitions for NHS Wales procured systems, national architecture and relevant local exchanges. It includes WCP, WDS, WLIMS, WRRS, TRRR, MTeD and WCCIS. These are harmonisation requirements, not a new legal purpose or a compulsory universal clinical flow. No current supersession was identified in the bounded search. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-203 | DSCN 2015/06: NHS Number Operational Standard — Digital Health and Care Wales / WISB | Data Standards Change Notice / administrative information mandate; Wales. Status: 6 November 2015; immediate procurement requirements; April 2018 for national/PAS systems; April 2020 for remaining systems. Applies to all bodies commissioning or providing health/care services in partnership with NHS Wales, including relevant suppliers. The standard governs identifiers; it does not compel clinical data upload. Statutory GMS Schedule 3 paragraph 81 separately binds correspondence under the prescribed contract. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-204 | WHC 2015/049: Operational standards for NHS number — Welsh Government | Welsh Health Circular / administrative information mandate; Wales. Status: 6 November 2015; Status: Compliance; phased to 2020. The cover identifies health-board/trust chief executives for action. Read it with DSCN 2015/06 for detailed system and user rules. A review period to 2020 is not proof of revocation. Recheck the latest applicable implementation standard before a formal compliance finding. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-205 | Health Protection (Notification) (Wales) Regulations 2010, revised 3 November 2026 — Welsh Ministers / UK legislation | Legislation; Wales. Status: Official dated revised XML retrieved 3 November 2026. Regulation 4 provides for laboratory causative-agent notification in writing within seven days, plus urgent oral reporting. Regulation 7 allows electronic communication subject to the recipient’s written consent and specified address. Do not treat writing as digital-only. Special SARS-CoV-2/influenza provisions 4A–4D require separate scope assessment. England’s 2025 amendments do not supply Welsh duties. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-211 | Emergency Care Summary and Key Information Summary (Scotland) Directions 2023 — Scottish Ministers | Statutory directions under NHS (Scotland) Act 1978 sections 2(5) and 105(7); Scottish Health Boards; requests to GMS and section 17C contractors and defined further care access. Status: Signed 5 September 2023; effective 2 October 2023; current official publication checked 3 November 2026. Paragraph 3 requires necessary care requests for ECS and existing KIS, but paragraph 3(2) allows appropriate means including electronic. Paragraph 4 further sharing is permissive, with agreements. Paragraph 6 requires encryption, trained users, individual credentials, audit/access reasons, rights processes and current accurate data. Signed clauses and schedules visually inspected; extraction alone omits scans. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-212 | NHS (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2018, schedule 6 records and information — Scottish Ministers / legislation.gov.uk | Secondary legislation prescribing GMS contract terms; Scottish GMS contractors and their Health Board. Status: Current revised official XML inspected3 November 2026. Paragraph 68(4) requires audit-function access as soon as possible following Board request where records are electronic. Paragraph 69 governs required disclosure/access on a lawful, directed request; agreed reasonable date or28 days for69(1)(b). Computer/electronic access is included, not an exclusive transmission method. Paragraph 68 permits paper/electronic records and alternative transfer forms. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-213 | Clinical Document Indexing Standard EH4001, version 5.0 — Health Board Digital Leads Group / Public Health Scotland | Official technical standard; recommended use; Scottish clinical systems, especially cross-Health-Board information sharing. Status: PublishedJune2026; document last updateDecember2025; revalidationMarch2028. Page 3 explicitly recommends prospective use. Sections 3.1–3.3 address electronic clinical documents and applicable systems. No universal statutory mandate, sending duty or implementation deadline is established by this standard alone. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-214 | Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008, Part 2 notifications — Scottish Parliament / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; Scottish diagnostic laboratory directors and statutory notification recipients; public/private ownership is not the trigger. Status: Current revised sections 16 and18 official XML inspected3 November 2026. Section 16 requires specified known patient/organism data in writing within 10 days, plus urgent oral notification as soon as reasonably practicable. Section 18 permits reproducible electronic documents to satisfy writing and deems receipt on transmission day. This is mandatory notification with an electronic option, not a digital-only mandate. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-215 | Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967, section 2 — Parliament of Northern Ireland / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; NI medical practitioners attending a person with suspected/diagnosed notifiable disease; statutory exceptions apply. Status: Current revised official full-Act XML inspected3 November 2026. Section 2 requires notification certificate to Director of Public Health as soon as awareness or reasonable suspicion arises. It specifies patient/condition/examination information and hospital exceptions. It does not expressly require electronic transmission. Do not treat every laboratory result as this notification. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-216 | Optometry Enhanced Services (Community Glaucoma Service) (Scotland) (No.3) Directions 2026 — Scottish Ministers | Statutory directions and prescribed service terms; Scottish Health Boards, PSD Scotland and accredited CGS providers/clinicians for eligible NHS patients. Status: Issued28 October 2026; signed 27 October; operative1 November 2026 except fee schedule retrospective1 April 2026; latest NHS circular list checked 3 November. Annex paragraphs 22–25 require pre-transfer EPR update and hospital discharge-letter upload. Paragraph 14 requires clinician terms. Schedule 4 paragraph 5 requires records only in Ophthalmology EPR; paragraph 6 requires electronic assessment claims within 3 months. Supersedes No.2 Directions 2026; do not cite2023/2025 predecessors as current. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-217 | KIS letter of clarification: protected data,5 June 2025 — Scottish Government, Primary Care Directorate | Official legal-policy clarification, not new legislation; Scottish GP/Health Board KIS sharing. Status: Dated 5 June 2025; official publication8472 and PDF inspected3 November 2026. Explains government position on required ECS/KIS disclosure under regulations/directions and Gender Recognition Act protected data. It expressly retains professional judgement, common law, data-protection law and minimum necessary care disclosure. Do not recast the letter itself as a new gateway or repeat its informal UKGDPR2018 label. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-218 | Belfast Trust Haematology and Blood Bank Laboratory User Manual H-416 v28.0 — Belfast Health and Social Care Trust Laboratories | Local laboratory service procedure / published service agreement; Belfast laboratory users, hospital services and GP practices receiving reports. Status: Effective 15 June 2026; current official PDF inspected3 November 2026. Page 13 describes accepted examination requests as a service agreement. Pages 14–15 set minimum request/sample criteria, including electronic request generation for encompass users. Pages 22–23 describe validated hospital results via EPIC and GP reports via EDI. Local operational/service terms, not an NI-wide statutory electronic-delivery deadline. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-219 | Docman10X GP Document Workflow Solution: transparency notice2025/S000-059307 — Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service | Official procurement notice describing existing workflow; NI general-practice incoming secondary-care correspondence. Status: Published 24 September 2025; current official PDF inspected3 November 2026. Pages 1–2 describe most documents arriving through Electronic Document Transfer, with paper/scanning where EDT is unavailable. This is evidence of operational routes and procurement intent, not a statutory universal digital duty, signed contract or completed rollout. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-220 | EpicCare Link: professional access to encompass — Digital Health and Care Northern Ireland | Official operational service information; GPs and other approved professionals accessing encompass information. Status: Page updated 30 July 2025; live official page inspected3 November 2026. Describes read-only core-record viewing, some results, admissions/discharges and limited imaging actions. New accounts through Site Administrators. Service availability and access requirements do not establish a universal provider upload duty or external machine feed. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-221 | Health and Personal Social Services (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004, schedule 5 — Northern Ireland Department of Health / legislation.gov.uk | Secondary legislation prescribing GMS contract terms; NI GMS contractors; read legacy Board references with 2022 transfer legislation. Status: Current revised official XML inspected3 November 2026. Paragraph 68(5) requires audit-function access to computerised records as soon as possible after request;68(7) permits written or consented other transfer form. Paragraph 72 requires information/access under applicable Department directions by agreed reasonable date or28 days. Neither is universal patient-summary/lab-result digital sharing. Paragraph 7 requires qualifying non-list patient clinical reports, without digital-only wording. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-222 | Northern Ireland Paperlight Accreditation Policy v1.02 — HSC Board / Business Services Organisation | Published accreditation policy and sample agreement; legacy institutional wording; NI general practices applying to hold electronic records. Status: Live official PDF inspected3 November 2026; version 1.02,2011 guidance basis; exact original issue date not established. Appendix4 sample contract concerns safe electronic records, security/audit and record forwarding; accepts printout or electronic media. It does not establish every current practice’s executed agreement or mandatory digital-only onward transfer. Current local approval/terms must be obtained. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-223 | SCI Gateway access: NHS Board IT facilitators — Public Services Delivery Scotland / legacy NSS-branded service | Official service onboarding guidance; Scottish SCI Gateway users and location access. Status: Published 26 August 2026; live official page inspected3 November 2026. Routes new users, new locations, email and SWAN support through local NHS Board facilitators. Onboarding guidance is not a universal referral/discharge content or digital-sending mandate. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-224 | Entering Research Information to the Electronic Patient Record, AD001 v5.0 — ACCORD: NHS Lothian and University of Edinburgh | Local research standard operating procedure; Investigators/study teams entering information into NHS Lothian EPR. Status: Issued28 July 2025; effective 11 August 2025; PDF inspected3 November 2026. Sections 4–5 require care-relevant research information in EPR, via direct TRAK entry or authorised/verified scanning into SCI Store. This is a specific local procedure; not universal Scottish law, a generic research disclosure gateway or a national SCI Store interface mandate. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-225 | My Care: patient access and result-display limits — Digital Health and Care Northern Ireland | Official patient service guidance; NI encompass patient portal users. Status: Page updated 26 October 2026; live official HTML and content inspected 3 November 2026. Optional secondary-care portal; excludes GP records/GP-requested results and currently social-care record display. Some results released automatically, others after clinician action. It does not require all health information to be digitally available to every patient. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-226 | Northern Ireland Electronic Care Record: patient guide — nidirect / Northern Ireland government | Official patient information; NIECR care information, GP-derived ECS/KIS and authorised users. Status: Undated live official page inspected3 November 2026. Describes aggregated care information and GP-derived ECS/KIS. Undated page does not establish complete post-encompass feed coverage, statutory universal supplier/GP upload duty or retirement status. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-241 | Mental Capacity Act 2005, Part 1 — UK Parliament | Primary legislation; England and Wales; generally people aged 16 or over. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Sections 1–5 address decision-specific capacity, support and best interests; sections 9–11/16/20 distinguish attorney/deputy authority; sections 35–39 address advocacy with defined triggers. An LPA donor must be at least 18; the general age-16 boundary does not govern LPA creation. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-242 | Family Law Reform Act 1969, section 8 — UK Parliament | Primary legislation; England and Wales; treatment consent from age 16. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Effective consent to treatment at 16/17 does not establish unlimited digital record access for a parent. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-243 | Children Act 1989, section 3 — UK Parliament | Primary legislation; England and Wales; parental responsibility. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Parental responsibility has a defined legal meaning; actual authority and court orders must be established. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-244 | Medical disclosure information to attorneys and deputies — Office of the Public Guardian | Official guidance; England and Wales; relevant information for attorneys/deputies. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Relevant information to exercise an actual role differs from unrestricted record access or a subject-access request; verify authority, scope, necessity and restrictions. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-245 | Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000, section 1 — Scottish Parliament | Primary legislation; Scotland; adult defined as age 16 or over. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Benefit, least restriction, wishes and consultation principles apply to interventions; incapacity and communication support are defined. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-246 | Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000, Part 5 — Scottish Parliament | Primary legislation; Scotland; medical treatment, including sections 47 and 50. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Section 47 certificate authority is specific to treatment; section 50 addresses a proxy with relevant powers and disagreement. It is not a universal discharge-placement or portal-access authority. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-247 | Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991 — UK Parliament | Primary legislation; Scotland; age and specific under-16 medical-consent exception. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Section 1 establishes general capacity at 16; section 2(4) concerns an under-16 understanding the medical procedure or treatment. Do not substitute a portal age threshold. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-248 | Children (Scotland) Act 1995, section 1 — UK Parliament | Primary legislation; Scotland; parental responsibilities and legal representation. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Most listed responsibilities concern under-16s; guidance responsibility continues to 18. These distinctions matter to representative claims. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-249 | Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016: current text and prospective representation provisions — Northern Ireland Assembly | Primary legislation and commencement status; Northern Ireland; partial implementation, provision-specific. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Current XML marks sections 97–99 and 116 prospective. Do not import the uncommenced welfare-LPA/deputy scheme into ordinary care authority. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-250 | AQW 45325/22-27: phased implementation of the Mental Capacity Act — NI Assembly; Minister of Health | Official ministerial answer; Northern Ireland; implementation status. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. 19 May 2026 answer identifies deprivation of liberty, research and money/valuables as implemented areas; no full-commencement timetable. Read with current revised statutory status. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-251 | Age of Majority Act (Northern Ireland) 1969, section 4 — Parliament of Northern Ireland | Primary legislation; Northern Ireland; consent to treatment from age 16. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Provides effective treatment consent at 16/17; does not establish an all-purpose proxy-access entitlement. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-252 | Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, Article 6 — UK legislation | Primary legislation; Northern Ireland; parental responsibility. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Defines parental responsibility; distinguish the parent or authorised holder from an informal carer and check relevant orders. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-253 | Managing your affairs and enduring power of attorney — Northern Ireland Government | Official guidance; Northern Ireland; property and affairs EPA. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Current official explanation limits EPA to property/affairs; it is different from an England/Wales health and welfare LPA. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-254 | 0–18 years: making decisions — General Medical Council | Professional guidance; UK registrants; national age/consent differences. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Explains competence, 16/17 differences, parental/court involvement and disputes. Treatment consent is distinct from information disclosure. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-255 | 0–18 years: principles of confidentiality — General Medical Council | Professional guidance; UK; children and young people. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Children have confidentiality interests; competence, necessity, best interests, safeguarding and legal requirements affect disclosure. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-256 | 0–18 years: accessing medical records — General Medical Council | Professional guidance; UK; child/young-person/parent access. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Competent young people and parental access require distinct analysis. Use current DPA section 208 for the Scottish age-12 presumption; historical footnotes are not the current statutory source. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-257 | Data Protection Act 2018, section 208 — UK Parliament | Primary legislation; Scotland; under-16 data-protection rights and consent. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. A general-understanding test applies; age 12 carries a rebuttable presumption. This concerns data-protection rights/consent, not every medical decision or automatic parental proxy. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-258 | Decision making and consent: overall benefit and legal authority — General Medical Council | Professional guidance; UK; national legal frameworks for treatment/care. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Paragraphs 87–93 distinguish benefit/best interests, existing representatives, common-law NI treatment authority and dispute escalation; liberty restrictions need separate consideration. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-259 | Adults with incapacity: continuing and welfare attorneys, chapter 2 — Scottish Government | Code of practice; Scotland; welfare attorneys and information powers. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. The actual grant and relevant powers matter; specific confidential-information powers and medical-treatment restrictions require inspection. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-260 | UK GDPR Article 15: electronic subject-access copy — UK legislation | Legislation; All four nations; controllers responding to an entitled person. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Article 15(3) requires commonly used electronic form following an electronic request unless the person requests otherwise; rights, reasonable/proportionate search and restrictions remain applicable. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-261 | UK GDPR Article 20: data portability — UK legislation | Legislation; All four nations; qualifying consent/contract automated processing. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Structured machine-readable data and direct transmission where feasible are conditional; the right excludes necessary public-task/official-authority processing. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-262 | Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010, regulation 4 — UK legislation | Regulations; England; diagnostic laboratory notification to UKHSA. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Current regulation imposes notification content and writing/oral urgency deadlines. It does not itself prescribe a digital-only channel for every blood result. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-263 | Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Part 10 Advocacy Code — Welsh Government | Statutory code issued under section 145; Wales; local-authority social services functions. Status: Current source reviewed at 3 November 2026. Paragraph 47 requires an independent professional advocate where participation barriers need an appropriate individual but none is available; distinguish must requirements from guidance. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-270 | General Acute Inpatient and Day Case — Scottish Morbidity Record (SMR01) — Public Health Scotland | Official national dataset specification; Scotland; NHS Board submissions of general/acute inpatient and day-case episodes. Status: Current official catalogue page; displayed last updated 6 October 2026; inspected 3 November 2026. Describes patient-level identifiers, episode-management data, diagnosis/operation data and discharge location. Says NHS Boards submit electronically, and states the 42-day expectation after the end of the discharge month. Calls timeliness a target and does not identify a binding SMR-specific direction or exclusive legal transmission channel. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-271 | SMR01 — Summary of Rules — Public Health Scotland | Official national data dictionary / recording rules; Scotland; general/acute inpatient and day-case record generation, including contracted NHS beds in non-NHS institutions. Status: Current official /html page inspected; page displayed last updated 15 September 2026 and definition last modified 19 December 2016. Lists events generating an SMR01, including admission to NHS hospitals and contracted NHS beds in non-NHS institutions, specialty changes and qualifying transfers. This establishes collection scope rather than an independent contractual obligation on every private provider. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-272 | Timetable for the submission of SMRs January to December 2026 — Public Health Scotland | Official national submission timetable / operational instructions; Scottish Morbidity Records, 2026 reporting cutoffs. Status: Current 2026 PDF; linked by official publication page published 16 December 2025 and updated 6 April 2026; both pages inspected. Pages 1–2 call the schedule a six-week target, specify submission by 6pm, describe eSMR availability and snapshots, and give 11 November 2026 for September 2026 data and 12 December 2026 for October data. Submission by the cutoff is required for inclusion in that month’s figures. This is not evidence that Parliament imposed a six-week statutory digital deadline. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-273 | SMR input record: June 2021 — Public Health Scotland | Official national electronic file layout; SMR00, SMR01, SMR02 and SMR04 electronic input records. Status: June 2021 layout remains linked by current official publication page, updated 6 April 2026; inspected 3 November 2026. Defines an 838-character maximum record layout and distinguishes mandatory fields. Pages 1–4 include patient identification, provider/location, admission/discharge, ICD-10 condition and OPCS-4 operation fields. Mandatory fields in a technical layout do not themselves prove a statutory obligation to submit the dataset. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-274 | CGS claim submission guidance, v1.1 — Public Services Delivery Scotland / National Services Scotland website, Practitioner Services | Official service submission guidance; Scotland; accredited Community Glaucoma Service practices and clinicians using eOphthalmic Web Payments. Status: Version 1.1 PDF currently linked from official CGS Guidance page published 28 October 2026; inspected 3 November 2026. Pages 2–3 describe eOphthalmic Web Payments, secure NHS network or IPSec access; page 7 makes CHI mandatory for CGS; pages 16–17 identify assessment dates, clinical condition, reason for supplementary assessment and assessment outcomes; page 18 describes PIN/declaration/payment verification. This describes the current implementation. The binding electronic-communication and three-month rule is in SRC-216 Schedule 4 paragraph 6, imposed through paragraph 14. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-280 | Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991, Schedule 3 paragraph 8 — UK legislation | Primary legislation: Order in Council; Northern Ireland HSC Trusts providing reports and other information required by the Department of Health. Status: Current official revised XML, including the dated 3 November 2026 instrument, inspected. Requires HSC Trusts to furnish reports, returns and other information, including forward planning, as and in the form the Department requires. It does not name KH03a, a digital channel or an independent-provider obligation. The current provision uses HSC trust, replacing the historic HSS terminology. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-281 | KH03A: Summary of Available Bed Days, Occupied Bed Days, Discharges and Deaths, and Day Cases — guidance — Department of Health, Northern Ireland | Official statistical collection technical guidance; Quarterly HSC Trust hospital bed data and specified non-acute activity; independent-sector beds excluded. Status: Current PDF linked by the official guidance page updated 8 September 2026; inspected 3 November 2026. Paragraphs 1–3 define hospital/programme coverage and quarterly reporting. Acute discharges/deaths/day cases use separate administrative-system data. Paragraphs 11 and 19 exclude independent-sector beds and non-consultant-led activity. The PDF does not itself identify a statutory enabling provision or submission email. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-282 | HSC Trust Submission Timetable to IAD for Quarter Ending September 2026 — Department of Health, Northern Ireland | Published Department statistical submission timetable and instructions; Named HSC Trust statistical reports for the September 2026 quarter and specified monthly periods. Status: Issued 16 September 2026; latest timetable linked on the official page at 3 November 2026. Page 1 sets KH03a quarterly submission for Monday 19 October 2026. Page 2 directs all listed reports to HIB.Returns@health-ni.gov.uk on the listed dates and requests early notification of delay. The wording uses should. Future quarters require a new timetable; publication deadlines are different from submission deadlines. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-283 | Background Quality Report: Northern Ireland Inpatient and Day Case Activity Statistics and Acute Episode-Based Activity Statistics — NISRA / Department of Health Hospital Activity Information Branch | Official statistical methodology and quality report; NI HSC Trust inpatient/bed statistical collections, including KH03A and supplementary aggregate reporting. Status: Last reviewed 28 March 2025; live official report inspected 3 November 2026. Background and relevance sections identify KH03A and quarterly aggregate non-acute/bed reports. Performance/Cost/Burden states Trust staff must provide requested additional data and it is submitted electronically. Confidentiality section identifies aggregate Excel templates. Timeliness refers to a quarterly submission timetable. It does not itself expressly link KH03a to Schedule 3 paragraph 8. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-284 | Explanatory notes and technical guidance for inpatient and day case activity — Department of Health, Northern Ireland | Official publication and current-document locator; NI HSC inpatient/day-case statistical guidance, including the current KH03a guidance. Status: Published 4 August 2022; updated 8 September 2026. The official publication page links the inspected KH03a guidance PDF. Its update date establishes the current linked source, rather than proving a new statutory commencement or complete operational compliance. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-285 | Hospital information branch returns timetable — publication page — Department of Health, Northern Ireland | Official publication and current-timetable locator; HSC Trust hospital statistical report submission dates. Status: Published 16 September 2026; describes quarter ending September 2026. At the review date this page links the September 2026 timetable. It is a submission-calendar source, not the calendar for publishing the resulting statistics. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-290 | Service on a page SUS+ — NHS England | Official national-service description; England; SUS+ submission and access services. Status: Last edited 12 June 2026; current official page inspected 3 November 2026. Confirms that CDS XML interchanges are submitted to SUS+ through MESH. This is current technical-route evidence, read with the statutory data provision notice; service existence alone does not create the reporting duty. Published processing statistics are not needed for this example. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-291 | Submitting CDS Data to SUS — NHS England | Official submission guidance; England; secondary-care providers and CDS/PAS/XML suppliers. Status: Published and last edited 3 March 2025; current official page inspected 3 November 2026. Explains national hospital-activity reporting, contractual submission and sender registration, with BULK/NET protocols. Read the guidance within its secondary-care audience and the DPN scope; do not extend it to every type of healthcare or treat guidance as the executed contract. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-292 | Commissioning Data Sets: current data provision notice publication page — NHS England | Official current DPN publication and collection-status page; England; NHS-funded secondary-care providers under the national contract, AQPs and NHS private-patient units. Status: Last edited 24 May 2023; live page inspected 3 November 2026; collection identified as ongoing. The current publication continues to link the CDS Data Provision Notice v1.0 dated 13 March 2020. This establishes the publisher’s present notice link, not that all historical organisation names or version links in the PDF remain current. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-293 | DAPB0092: Commissioning Data Sets — current releases — NHS England | Official information-standard release and implementation page; England; NHS-provided and NHS-funded secondary-care activity data. Status: Last edited 13 February 2024; current releases inspected 3 November 2026. Lists CDS v6.3 Amd 64/2020 in implementation and v6.2 in maintenance. Links the July 2022 technical-output corrigendum and January 2024 change. Explains weekly reporting for types 020/120/130/140. Do not infer universal v6.2 retirement or one frequency for all CDS types. Exact deployed schema version requires the relevant release package. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-294 | General practice activity: quality report — Welsh Government | Official statistical-methodology and operational data-flow report; Wales; GMS general practices contracted with health boards; PCIP and aggregate national statistics. Status: First published 27 June 2024; updated 16 December 2025; current official page inspected 3 November 2026. Explains appointment categorisation, daily Audit+ extraction, DHCW monthly extraction on the tenth and restricted PCIP publication. Excludes non-GMS/non-NHS practices. Welsh Government receives aggregate data without personal identifiers. These are operational/statistical details, distinct from regulation 23’s prescribed contract terms and monthly review requirement. It identifies no additional statutory XML/API format or practice upload deadline. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-310 | DAPB1609 Amd 33/2024: Child Protection Information Sharing v3.0 Information Standards Notice — NHS England / Data Alliance Partnership Board | Section 250 information-standard notice; England. Status: Approved 23 July 2024; published 10 October 2024; still current linked release on official publication page, reviewed 3 November 2026. Older saved statutory regime; contract can separately require compliance.. pp 1–3 scope/legal authority/timetable. Adds specified scheduled settings. Notice admits local-authority children social care is outside its stated 2012 Act scope. Dates are internally inconsistent: LA 30 September 2024 precedes publication; supplier wording combines 12 months with 31 December 2024; health-provider date 30 September 2025. Do not repair or infer deployment. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-311 | DAPB1609 Amd 33/2024: Child Protection Information Sharing Requirements Specification v3.0 — NHS England | Requirements specification supporting scoped standard; England. Status: Current linked 44-page specification reviewed 3 November 2026; revision 3.0 dated 18 December 2023.. Dataset pp 9–10; health pp 12–18; LA pp 19–21; CP-SC/CP-IS system requirements pp 22–41.. Separates organisational, supplier and central-service requirements. Integration or NCRS are routes; this is not a duty to circulate complete safeguarding case files. Scheduled silent-read functionality can suppress an LA alert. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-312 | CP-IS implementation and integration: current service routes — NHS England Digital | Operational service and API guidance; England. Status: Live official service page reviewed 3 November 2026.. Integration links and service overview. Lists local-authority MESH, healthcare HL 7v 3 and Patient Flag FHIR APIs; NCRS also described. Product/API availability does not establish one mandatory API or unrestricted users. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-313 | Children Act 2004 Part 2: safeguarding arrangements and current information-sharing framework — UK Parliament / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; England. Status: Dated 3 November 2026 XML inspected for ss 11, 16E, 16LA, 16LB, 16LC. LA/LB operative 30 September 2026; LC otherwise prospective beyond regulation-making powers.. s 11(1)–(4); s 16E(2A); s 16LA(1)–(9); s 16LB(1)–(10); s 16LC annotations. New disclosure duty is conditional, medium neutral and birth–under 18. Childcare/education designation requires regulations; being a 2018 relevant agency is not proof of the new designation. s 16LB is a standards power plus have-regard duty for any applicable published standard. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-314 | Children Act 1989 section 47: enquiries and requested assistance — UK Parliament / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; England and Wales. Status: Dated 3 November 2026 revised XML inspected.. s 47(1),(9)–(12). Specified NHS/public bodies must assist requested enquiries, particularly relevant information/advice, unless unreasonable in all circumstances. Not an all-person automatic digital report duty. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-315 | Care Act 2014 section 42: local-authority safeguarding enquiries — UK Parliament / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; England. Status: Dated 3 November 2026 revised XML inspected.. s 42(1)–(3). LA enquiry duty for adult care/support needs, abuse/neglect risk and resulting inability to protect. Not itself a universal healthcare-provider electronic-referral or all-adult alert requirement. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-316 | Care Act 2014 section 45: supply of information to Safeguarding Adults Boards — UK Parliament / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; England. Status: Dated 3 November 2026 revised XML inspected.. s 45(1)–(6). SAB requests trigger a supply duty where conditions 1 and 2 and(condition 3or 4) apply. Covers a qualifying person, including private organisations; purpose-limited use. No prescribed digital channel or numerical deadline. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-317 | Information sharing duty: statutory guidance, September 2026 — Department for Education | Statutory guidance under Children Act 2004 s 16LA(6); England. Status: Published 10 September 2026; guidance reviewed 3 November 2026, applies to scenarios after 30 September 2026.. paras 4–14, 30–38, 54–61, 66–69. Prompt proactive sharing and local mechanisms; no universal API. Para 66 excludes unborn children from s 16LA. Guidance names education broadly, but new statutory designation is not proved by that statement. Statute and later official clarification control scope. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-318 | Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 Commencement No.2 England Regulations 2026, regulation 6 — UK legislation | Commencement regulations; England. Status: Official XML inspected 3 November 2026.. reg 6(a)(i)–(ii). Commences insertion of s 16LA and s 16LB on 30 September 2026, rather than the entire consistent-identifier scheme. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-319 | Crime and Policing Act 2026 section 85: prospective child-sex-offence reporting — UK Parliament / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation, prospective; England activity; legislative extentEngland/Wales. Status: Current official XML marks Chapter 2/P 1 group Prospective; reviewed 3 November 2026.. s 85(1)–(4),(9); status/commencement annotation. Keep out of current operative duties. Enacted text permits oral or written notice and future method regulations; it is not a current digital-only reporting mandate. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-320 | Social Services and Well-being(Wales) Act 2014 Part 7: safeguarding — National Assembly for Wales / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; Wales. Status: Dated 3 November 2026 XML inspected. ss 126, 128, 130, 131, 137 operative, with commencement annotations.. ss 126, 128, 130, 131, 137. Express relevant-partner reports, local-authority enquiry and cross-area notice; conditional Board information requests. The text does not prescribe WCCIS, a digital-only channel or one universal message schema. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-321 | Social Services and Well-being(Wales) Act 2014 section 162: relevant partners — National Assembly for Wales / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; Wales. Status: Dated 3 November 2026 XML inspected; current partner list retained, including later tertiary-education wording.. s 162(4),(6)–(9). Includes Local Health Boards and NHS Trusts serving the area, police and specified others. The additional-person cooperation category is not itself the statutory relevant-partner list. Do not automatically classify every independent provider as a relevant partner. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-322 | Working Together to Safeguard People Volume 5: children at risk — Welsh Government | Statutory safeguarding guidance; have regard under s 131; Wales. Status: Official publication page last updated 4 November 2019; current linked 48-page PDF inspected 3 November 2026.. paras 89–95, 100–101. As-soon-as-possible reports; telephone reports should have written confirmation within 24 hours in agreed multi-agency format. Keep should/must and guidance/statute distinct; writing is not necessarily digital. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-323 | Working Together to Safeguard People Volume 6: adults at risk — Welsh Government | Statutory safeguarding guidance; have regard under s 131; Wales. Status: Official publication page last updated 4 November 2019; current linked 37-page PDF inspected 3 November 2026.. paras 69, 71–78. Guidance says reports as soon as possible/within one working day; phone/email/writing routes; telephone confirmation should be written within 24 hours. Agreement/risk/capacity/public-interest qualifications apply. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-324 | Children Act 2004 section 28: Welsh safeguarding arrangements — UK Parliament / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; Wales. Status: Dated 3 November 2026 XML inspected.. s 28(1)–(5). Listed public bodies, including Local Health Boards/NHS Trusts/police, must make safeguarding arrangements for functions and commissioned services. Does not prescribe one electronic-transfer platform. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-325 | DHCW public Board papers 26 March 2026: Connecting Care and WCCIS transition — Digital Health and Care Wales | Official programme/governance evidence; Wales. Status: Dated programme report reviewed 3 November 2026, not proof that later milestones are complete.. PDF pp 99–101, sections 4.8–4.11. Connecting Care succeeded WCCIS programme; describes integrated-record aims, local procurement and CareDirector exit/migration. No universal statutory safeguarding upload or single-platform participation duty is established. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-326 | Interim guidance to support the management of non-ideological extreme violence concerns — Home Office | Official interim guidance; scope clarification; England safeguarding information-sharing explanation. Status: Issued 8 October 2026; published 27 October 2026; live official text inspected 3 November 2026.. Paragraphs 19–21, particularly paragraph 20. Lists section 11 bodies within current child-sharing duty and states designated childcare/education agencies will be included in due course. Does not itself designate them or create a digital interface. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-327 | Delivering the children’s social care reset: implementation plan for local partners 2026–2029 — Department for Education | Official implementation plan; indicative milestones; England. Status: Official 2026 plan inspected 3 November 2026; indicative future activity is not commencement proof.. Annex B: secondary-legislation indicative laying dates, childcare/education inclusion row. Schedules new designated childcare/education category during 2027. Read with current section 16E and actual designation regulations; the plan does not itself extend current direct section 16LA scope. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-330 | Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003, section 5B — UK Parliament | Primary legislation; England and Wales. Status: Current revised XML inspected; duty commenced 31 October 2015.. Personal reporting duty, defined discovery, identifying content, one-month limit, oral/written routes and same-profession prior-report exception. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-331 | Mandatory reporting of female genital mutilation: procedural information — Home Office | Official procedural guidance; England and Wales. Status: Current official accessible text inspected 3 November 2026.. Sections 2.1–2.3: prompt 101 reporting, safeguarding urgency and one-month statutory maximum; separate Welsh local-authority reporting. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-332 | Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, Part 5 and Schedules 6–7 — UK Parliament | Primary legislation; England, Wales and Scotland. Status: Current revised XML of 26, 38 and Schedule 6 inspected.. Specified-authority due-regard duty; statutory-guidance duty; conditional panel cooperation/information duty and safeguards. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-333 | Prevent duty guidance: for England and Wales — Home Office | Statutory guidance under section 29; England and Wales. Status: Guidance states in force 31 December 2023; current accessible text inspected.. Health paragraphs 214–236 distinguish specified bodies, national form expectations, confidentiality and NHS contract scope. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-334 | Prevent and the Channel process in the NHS: information sharing and governance — Department of Health and Social Care | Departmental healthcare guidance; England. Status: Published 27 September 2022; current official page expressly applies toEngland.. Section 4: national form, recognised secure email, local police/LA contacts, confidentiality decisions and recording. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-335 | Prevent duty guidance: for Scotland — Home Office | Statutory guidance under section 29; Scotland. Status: Updated 8 May 2024; states in force 19 August 2024.. Health/HSCP paragraphs 237–261: NHS Boards, national Scottish referral form, Police Scotland/PMAP and data-protection constraints. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-336 | Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, sections 35–38 — UK Parliament | Primary legislation; England and Wales. Status: Current revised section 35 XML inspected; duty commenced 12 October 2009.. Provider/personnel-supplier DBS referral and requested-information duties; applies beyond publicly funded employers. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-337 | Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007, sections 2–5, 9 and 20 — Scottish Parliament | Primary legislation; Scotland. Status: Current revised Act text and section 9 XML inspected; regulated-role amendments apply from 1 April 2025.. Referral grounds, employer/agency duties, three-month offence threshold and information-on-request duty. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-338 | Disclosure Scotland: How to make a referral — Disclosure Scotland | Official operational guidance; Scotland. Status: Updated 18 June 2026; related When to make a referral page also inspected.. Form content, coded child/adult identifiers, email submission and explicit printed/postal alternative. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-339 | Criminal Justice Act 2003, section 325: MAPPA — UK Parliament | Primary legislation; England and Wales. Status: Current revised provision inspected; 2022 information-power changes included.. Cooperation/MOU duties, permissive disclosure, confidentiality override, data-protection limits and Part 3 processing consequence. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-350 | Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007, Part 1: current protection and cooperation provisions — Scottish Parliament / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; dated revised XML; Scotland; adults 16+ meeting section 3 criteria; councils and specified public bodies. Status: Current dated XML retrieved; s 5 in force since 29 October 2008; s 5A inserted 7 January 2026. Sections 3, 4, 5, 53 identify the risk test, council inquiry duty, public-body report/cooperation and age/Health Board scope. No electronic-only channel or universal EPR interface is specified. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-351 | Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007, section 10: examination of records — Scottish Parliament / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; dated revised XML; Scotland; any holder of relevant health, financial or other records. Status: Current; in force 29 October 2008. Council officer may require records/copies. Off-visit request is in writing; electronic request qualifies if legible and retainable. That permits electronic requests; it does not require electronic supply. Health-record inspection is restricted to health professionals. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-352 | Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007, section 49: obstruction and records compliance — Scottish Parliament / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; dated revised XML; Scotland; section 10 recipients and persons obstructing statutory activity. Status: Current dated revised provision retrieved. Section 49(2) criminalises refusing/failing without reasonable excuse to comply with section 10 requirement; subsection 4 excludes acts of the person whose wellbeing/property is being safeguarded. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-353 | Children (Scotland) Act 1995, section 21: cooperation between authorities — UK Parliament / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; dated revised XML; Scotland; local-authority PartII functions; specified appropriate bodies including Health Boards. Status: Current dated revised XML retrieved. A specified request for help engages qualified compliance by an appropriate person. Compatibility with duties/obligations and undue-prejudice safeguard remain. It does not impose an electronic system or general private-provider duty. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-354 | Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011, Part 6: reporting and investigation — Scottish Parliament / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; dated revised XML; Scotland; local authorities, constables, Principal Reporter and other referrers. Status: Current dated sections 60, 61, 64, 66 retrieved; Part 6 snapshot requested. Local authority s 60 and police s 61 reporting duties depend on statutory protection/compulsory-supervision tests. Other persons have s 64 permission. Reporter can require LA report under s 66(4). These provisions specify information, not a digital-only channel. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-355 | Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024, section 32: repeal of named-person and child's-plan provisions — Scottish Parliament / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; dated revised XML; Scotland; Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 Parts 4 and 5 and schedules 2/3. Status: In force 5 May 2025; XML RestrictStartDate=2025-05-05. Repeals the never-commenced statutory named-person/child-plan provisions. Current GIRFEC practice does not revive those powers. Read existing UKSC 2016 authority SRC 072 as historical/legal-safeguard context. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-356 | Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024 (Commencement No.2) Regulations 2025, regulation 2 — Scottish Ministers / legislation.gov.uk | Commencement regulations; Scotland; listed provisions of 2024 Act. Status: Made 22 April 2025; s 32 commenced 5 May 2025. Reg 2(1)(c) supplies exact commencement of repeal; do not infer all 2024 Act provisions commenced on this date. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-357 | National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2021—updated 2023: Introduction — Scottish Government | Official non-statutory national guidance; Scotland; statutory and non-government agencies protecting children. Status: Published 31 August 2023; current official publication found at review; a new 2026 JII publication is consultation guidance. Introduction paragraph 1 expressly non-statutory. Its must/should practice wording is not itself a statutory digital-transfer duty. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-358 | National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2021—updated 2023: Part 1 context, register and information sharing — Scottish Government | Official non-statutory national guidance; Scotland; child protection registers and practitioner information exchange. Status: Current published guidance reviewed; some historical legislative narrative requires current-law cross-check. CPR is an administrative alert register with no legal status. LA maintains it with appropriate 24 hours access; iVPD flag identifies registration and lead contact. Sharing is necessary/proportionate/secure, with recorded reasons. These operational arrangements do not establish mandatory NHS-to-CPR automation. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-359 | National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2021—updated 2023: Part 2A roles and responsibilities — Scottish Government | Official non-statutory national guidance; Scotland; health/social-work/education/police/third-sector responsibilities. Status: Current published guidance reviewed. Health professionals contribute proportionate relevant information; children missing health appointments, child register checks and transitions need local processes. Commissioned/non-commissioned agencies need local protocols. Guidance is not proof of a universal digital interface or identical legal duties for all actors. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-360 | National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2021—updated 2023: Part 3 referral, IRD and protection planning — Scottish Government | Official non-statutory national guidance; Scotland; child concerns, IRD core agencies, planning and cross-boundary transfers. Status: Current published guidance reviewed. Report without delay; police/social-work/health core IRD; education as relevant; immediate action is not delayed. Secure electronic IRD-record sharing promotes effective practice, while discussion may be face-to-face, telephone or video. CPPM key decisions one day, plan five working days are guidance expectations. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-361 | Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 Code of Practice: Chapter 3 roles and information sharing — Scottish Government | Statutory code guidance; pre-2026 amendment; Scotland; councils, Health Boards, independent/third-sector professionals. Status: Published 28 July 2022; current official code linked; predates s 5A and must be read with amended statute. Explains public-body referral/cooperation and mental capacity not being the threshold for adult protection. Its statements that GP bodies are outside s 5 duties do not remove the new s 5A permissions or s 10 compliance. Avoid treating old private-sector guidance as updated statutory text. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-362 | Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (Registration) Regulations 2011, regulation 4 — Scottish Ministers / legislation.gov.uk | Regulations; dated revised body retrieved; Scotland; care services registered under Part 5 Chapters 3/4 of 2010 Act. Status: Current dated full regulation XML retrieved. Care Inspectorate must notify provider on registration of required records, notifications and annual returns; may reasonably vary information. Actual registration requirements and current sector guidance specify form/timing. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-363 | Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, section 53: information power — Scottish Parliament / legislation.gov.uk | Primary legislation; dated revised XML; Scotland; any person providing a social service. Status: Current dated revised XML retrieved. Section 53(6) enables Care Inspectorate to require information necessary/expedient for Part 5 functions; the individual requirement/registration regime matters. Does not prescribe a universal EPR interface. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-364 | Adult care services: guidance on records you must keep and notifications you must make, March 2025 — Care Inspectorate | Official regulator notification/registration guidance; current linked PDF; Scotland; registered adult care services, public/private/voluntary within registration scope. Status: Current library page fetched; linked March 2025 PDF retrieved 3 November 2026. Intro ties notifications to registration conditions; protection-concern eForm within 24 hours, update within one month. Page 15 specifies identifiers/safety/referrals/placing authority. Later protection-form updates must be applied; do not auto-attach referral forms or photos. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-365 | Children and young people care services: guidance on records you must keep and notifications you must make, March 2025 — Care Inspectorate | Official regulator notification/registration guidance; current linked PDF; Scotland; registered children/young-people care services within sector guidance. Status: Current library page fetched; linked March 2025 PDF retrieved 3 November 2026. Protection-concern eForm immediately, update within one month. Identifiers, safety action, referral and placing-authority details are specified; separate staff-misconduct notification when applicable. This differs from adult 24 hours wording. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-366 | Care Inspectorate protection procedures and updated protection notification forms — Care Inspectorate | Official regulator procedure update; Scotland; protection notifications and lead-agency follow-up. Status: Page last updated 8 May 2026; describes 7 April 2025 protection-concern eForm replacement. Care Inspectorate follows protection notifications with lead agencies and corresponding AP 1/CP 1 referrals. Separate 2026 sector update says lead-agency referral Yes/No mandatory, staff identity/reason required, do not attach photos/referral forms unless requested. Live form and latest sector instruction must be checked. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-367 | Manage my Service: Care Inspectorate digital transformation—current launch status — Care Inspectorate | Official current operational page; Scotland; registered care services/providers portal transition. Status: Direct official HTML fetched 3 November 2026 still describes launch later this year; 10 September 2026 bulletin corroborates future launch. Earlier summer/August 2026 scheduled launch is not evidence of actual rollout. Existing eForms/Digital Portal replacement is prospective on current page. Avoid asserting it has launched or making old scheduled date a legal deadline. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-368 | Healthcare Improvement Scotland (Applications and Registration) Regulations 2011, regulation 5 — Scottish Ministers / legislation.gov.uk | Regulations; official original XML supplied by current endpoint; Scotland; registered independent healthcare-service providers. Status: Official current endpoint resolves original/made XML; dated 2026 endpoint unavailable; do not claim revised-text status from original. Reg 5 requires HIS to notify provider in writing of records/notification/annual-return matters and permits reasonable variation. Regulator current notification guidance specifies events, portal and times. Provider written notification/registration scope must be matched. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-369 | Independent Healthcare Regulation Notifications Guidance, version 3.1 June 2024 — Healthcare Improvement Scotland | Official regulator process guidance; current linked PDF; Scotland; registered independent healthcare services. Status: Publication page 17 June 2024 fetched 3 November 2026 links June 2024 as most-up-to-date; document review dateJune 2026 has passed. PDFp 3 requires HIS portal submission. Notification 15 public-protection concerns within 24 hours (p 5); pp 14–15 distinguish service-user/visitor concerns; personal details not required initially. Registration regime/notice gives scope; guidance is not a universal NHS-system interface. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-370 | Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, Article 66 — Official national authority | Primary legislation; Northern Ireland. Status: Current revised XML retrieved; paragraph 5A commenced 1 April 2024.. Inquiries, requested assistance, information/advice and limits. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-371 | Safeguarding Board Act (Northern Ireland) 2011, sections 10–12 — Official national authority | Primary legislation; Northern Ireland. Status: Revised sections 10–12 XML inspected; in operation 14 September 2012.. Board cooperation; conditional requested-information duty; service safeguarding arrangements. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-372 | Children’s Services Co-operation Act (Northern Ireland) 2015, section 2 — Official national authority | Primary legislation; Northern Ireland. Status: Current revised XML inspected.. Cooperation by children’s authorities, consistent with proper exercise of functions; no specified electronic dataset. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-373 | Criminal Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1967, sections 4(1A) and 5 — Official national authority | Primary legislation; Northern Ireland. Status: Current revised XML of sections 4 and 5 inspected.. Relevant-offence reporting; material assistance; reasonable excuse; Article 20 Sexual Offences Order exclusion. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-374 | Guidance on Information Sharing for Child Protection Purposes, March 2024 version — Official national authority | Departmental guidance; Northern Ireland. Status: Current publication page updated 20 June 2024; linked 34 page PDF inspected.. HSCT child-protection necessity, lawful authority, confidentiality, consent and recording; principally pages 8–12. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-375 | Co-operating to Safeguard Children and Young People in Northern Ireland, 2026 update — Official national authority | Departmental policy; Northern Ireland. Status: Page updated 23 September 2026; describes June 2026 CCE and October 2026 regulated-activity updates; linked 86 page PDF inspected.. Framework across statutory/private/independent/voluntary/community/faith sectors; children’s register/planning duties. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-376 | SBNI Procedures Manual: The Child Protection Register — Official national authority | Regional safeguarding procedure; Northern Ireland. Status: Live chapter inspected. Retains obsolete HSCB references; platform migration details require local confirmation.. Sections 5, 6, 8: authorised enquiries, regional electronic logging, update/transfer rules. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-377 | Adult Safeguarding: Prevention and Protection in Partnership — Official national authority | Departmental policy; Northern Ireland. Status: 2015 policy remains linked by current 2026 joint protocol.. Adults 18+; targeted protection threshold; all-sector safeguarding expectations. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-378 | Adult Safeguarding Operational Procedures: Adults at Risk of Harm and Adults in Need of Protection — Official national authority | Regional procedure; Northern Ireland. Status: PDF own cover September 2016; landing-page updated 15 October 2026 does not turn it into a 2026 edition.. Referral, ASC, protection and recording framework; all sectors; pages 5–7, 12–20. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-379 | Northern Ireland Assembly: Adult Protection Bill NIA 16/22–27 legislative status — Official national authority | Official legislative tracking; Northern Ireland. Status: Committee Stage completed 26 March 2026; Consideration Stage unscheduled; amendment notice 4 September 2026; no Royal Assent recorded.. Bill proposals are not operative adult-reporting powers or duties. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-380 | Revised Protocol for the Joint Investigation of Adult Protection Cases V1 August 2026 — Official national authority | Current regional inter-agency protocol; Northern Ireland. Status: Fourth edition; expressly replaces 2016 joint protocol; 115 page PDF inspected.. Sections 2.2–2.5, 3.4 and Appendix 1: AJP 1 and CJSM; statutory reporting remains separately assessed. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-381 | RQIA: Statutory Notification of Incidents and Deaths guidance V 1.1 January 2023 — Official national authority | Regulator operational guidance; Northern Ireland. Status: Current RQIA Submission of Notifications page links this 23 page PDF.. Pages 3–6: portal, service-specific legal duties, incident details, unique identifiers and identity minimisation. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-382 | Nursing Homes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005, regulation 30 — Official national authority | Secondary legislation; Northern Ireland. Status: Current legislation contents reports no known outstanding effects; full plain text inspected.. Notifiable deaths/injuries/adverse safety events/misconduct etc; without delay; oral notices confirmed in writing within 3 days. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-383 | Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, Articles 174–175 — Official national authority | Primary legislation; Northern Ireland. Status: Current revised XML of both articles inspected.. Long hospital/home stays and cessation: Trust and private-provider notification routes; Article 174 intra-authority exception. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-384 | Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007, Articles 37–42 — Official national authority | Primary legislation; Northern Ireland. Status: Current revised Articles 37/39 XML inspected; duties commenced 2009; revised contents includes outstanding/future changes.. Employer/personnel-supplier DBS referral; requested prescribed information; distinguish HSC-body power from employer duty. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-385 | DBS: Making barring referrals — Official national authority | Official referral guidance; Northern Ireland. Status: Updated 11 September 2026; April/July 2026 updates explicitly retain paper alternative on request.. Online Barring Referral Service; referral conditions; paper route where online unavailable. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-386 | Crime and Policing(2026 Act)(Commencement No.1)Order(Northern Ireland) 2026 — Official national authority | Commencement instrument; Northern Ireland. Status: Made 11 August 2026; section 140 in operation 1 September 2026.. Removes supervision exemption from regulated activity; affects provider/DBS scope, not EPR exchange format. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-387 | PSNI: Operation Encompass — Official national authority | Official operational scheme description; Northern Ireland. Status: Regional rollout completedMay 2023; current page inspected.. Police domestic-abuse incident information to schools before 9am; distinct from encompass healthcare EPR. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-388 | SBNI Procedures Manual: Referrals — Official national authority | Regional safeguarding procedure; Northern Ireland. Status: Chapter last updated 12 January 2026; live text inspected.. Sections 3–6: staff referrals, 24h written follow-up, same-day computer entry and protective action. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-389 | NIECR Privacy Notice 20230914 — Official national authority | Official system privacy information; Northern Ireland. Status: 2023 version publicly hosted; 11 page PDF inspected; not proof of 2026 feed completeness.. Page 3 lists social-care records including CPR; professional access/confidentiality; historical capability evidence. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-390 | Data Protection Act 2018 Schedule 1 paragraph 18: safeguarding condition — UK Parliament | Legislation; UK; children under 18 and defined adults at risk aged 18 or over. Status: Current revised official XML inspected 3 November 2026. Conditional substantial-public-interest processing ground: necessity, protective purpose, age/risk threshold and one of three reasons for processing without consent. This condition does not itself compel disclosure, override confidence or prescribe digital transmission. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-391 | Data Protection Act 2018 Schedule 3: health, social work and child-abuse access restrictions — UK Parliament | Legislation; UK; paragraph-specific territorial and requester limits. Status: Current revised official XML inspected 3 November 2026. Health paragraphs 4–6, social-work paragraphs 9 and 11–12, and child-abuse paragraph 21 have distinct access restrictions. Paragraph 21 does not apply in Scotland. These are conditional rights restrictions, not automatic suppression of all safeguarding records from every patient or parent. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-392 | GMC: disclosures for the protection of patients and others — General Medical Council | Professional regulatory guidance; UK doctors; paragraphs 50–70. Status: Current official page inspected 3 November 2026. Distinguishes legally required adult disclosures, serious harm where capacity is lacking, capacitous refusal and public-interest disclosure. Relevant information, appropriate recipients, explanation and decision records remain necessary. Does not prescribe one electronic system. | 2026-11-03 |
| SRC-393 | GMC: protecting children — confidentiality and sharing information — General Medical Council | Professional regulatory guidance; UK doctors; paragraphs 28–47. Status: Current official page inspected 3 November 2026. Prompt justified disclosure to an appropriate agency; consent and explanation exceptions where risk or public interest requires; relevant identities and concern facts, with cautious documented decisions about delay. Professional requirements differ from a statutory digital-only report. | 2026-11-03 |
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