Standards and indicators for care services

Standards and indicators help health and social care providers to: 

  • Identify gaps and areas for improvement
  • Measure the quality of the care they provide
  • Understand how to improve care
  • Show that they provide quality care on a local and national level

Find standards and indicators

List of our current standards and indicators

Find screening standards

List of national screening standards

What are standards and indicators?

Why we develop standards and indicators

Share your views

Take part in our live standards consultations

Help us develop this work

How professionals and the public can help to develop standards and indicators