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The Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) collects information about why people attend Emergency Care Services and the treatment they receive.
The ECDS is a Commissioning Data Set. Find previous releases under item Commissioning Data Set XML Schema.
This release is useable from 1 July 2023.
This is an update of the previous 20 January 2023 release (now withdrawn). It corrects the cardinality of the data group EXPECTED DATE AND TIME OF TREATMENT to match the NHS Data Model and Dictionary.
The Information Standard was approved by the Data Coordination Board as DCB0092-2062 : Commissioning Data Sets: Emergency Care Data Set.
Previous versions supplement the existing CDS062 version and allows submission of CDS011 (Emergency Care) CDS Type only.
Released on 6 March 2023.