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Proposals to amend the NDTMS dataset

The NTA is proposing to amend the data that is collected by NDTMS from April 2012, to ensure it remains relevant to drug and alcohol treatment delivery. Read more

Core Data Set Documents

All drug treatment agencies must provide a basic level of information to the NDTMS on their activities each month – known as the Core Data Set. The documents below provide technical guidance for managers of treatment services on what core data must be provided, plus guidance for IT managers on how to develop systems to manage this process. ‘Data Set H’ is the current version and ‘Data Set I’ will be implemented from April 2012.


Core data set documents
 
Data Set H
 
Data Set  I                
Data Set J                   

Adult treatment documents 

 
  

Business definition for adult drug treatment providers
Overview of Core Data Set for managers of drug treatment agencies.

Version 8.03

Updated 01/03/11

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guidance for adult drug treatment providers
Guidance on the drug data collection requirement, including which services should report to NDTMS, what data is being collected and why, and confidentiality and consent issues

Version 8.00

Updated 24/01/11

 

 

 

 

Business definition for adult alcohol treatment providers
Overview of Core Data Set for managers of alcohol treatment agencies.

Version 8.03

Updated 01/03/11

 

 

 

Guidance for adult alcohol treatment providers
Guidance on the alcohol data collection requirement, including which services should report to NDTMS, what data is being collected and why, and confidentiality and consent issues

Version 8.00

Updated 24/01/11

 

 

 

FAQs for new discharge codes

 

July 2009

 

 

 

 
  

Young people's treatment documents

 

 
  

Business definition for young people's treatment providers
Overview of Core Data Set for managers of young people’s treatment agencies.

Version 8.03

Updated 01/03/11

 

 

 

Guidance for young persons' treatment providers
Guidance on the data collection requirement, including which services should report to NDTMS, what data is being collected and why, and confidentiality and consent issues

Version 8.01

Updated 24/05/11

 

 

 

 

  

Prison treatment documents

   

Business definition for prison establishment treatment providers
Overview of Core Data Set for managers of prison establishment treatment agencies

Note: This document is currently only applicable to early adopter sites

Version 1.01

Updated 02/11/11

 Version 2.03 

 

Guidance for Prison establishment treatment providers
Gudance on the data collection requierment, including what data is being collected and why, the confidentiality and consent issues.


Version 1.00

Updated 02/11/11

 Version 2.00

 

 

Other documents

  

Reference data
Reference data in use within the NTA to support data collection and analysis. Defined as (relatively) static data. Generally employed as a means of validating data entry and is typically used to control the order and content of drop-down lists etc.

Version 8.03

Updated 01/03/11

 Version 9.06

  

   Version 10.01

Technical definition
Guidance to IT managers within treatment agencies and/or IT companies on the Core Data Set

Version 8.02

Updated 24/01/11

 Version 9.07

 

    Version 10.00

CSV input file format
Definition of the file format for the Comma separated variable (CSV) used as the primary means of inputting the Core Data Set items into the NDTMS database

Version 8.03

Updated 01/03/11

 Version 9.00

 

 

Geographic Information
A list of Drug Action Team, Primary Care Trust and Local Authority combinations, sorted by Strategic Health Authority

Version 8.00

Updated 27/10/10

 

 

Verification rules – (error messages)
Verification rule error messages and the severity setting (FATAL, ERROR or WARNING) of each one.

Version 8.02

Updated 27/01/11

 

 

Verification rules – (information messages)


Version 8.02

Updated 27/01/11

 

 

TOP functionality
Functionality to be included in software supplier’s applications to assist NDTMS Treatment Providers in providing accurate and timely completion and entry of Treatment Outcome Profile (TOP) forms.

Version 2.00

Updated 3/11/09

 

 

Supplier test scenarios
The test scenarios that must be covered within the sample files submitted to the NDTMS Development Team.

Version 2.02

Updated 28/03/11

 Version 2.03

 

 

 

NDTMS Data Quality Framework
NDTMS Data Quality Metrics, Data Verification Metrics and Access Application User Guide. This document is to explains how NDTMS data quality is monitored and in which areas, as well as detailing the scoring mechanism of each metric.

Version 8.00

Updated 31/05/11

 

 

NDTMS Data Quality Metrics 2009/2011

Version 6.05

Updated 31/05/11

 

 

 
 
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