All Age Continuing Care (AACC) implementation tools and guidance

These documents support services and organisations to configure their systems to extract the data required for the AACC data set.

The NHS AACC Data Set User Guidance explains how the national data set should be used and interpreted by users, system suppliers and other stakeholders.

This document supports and should be read in conjunction with the Technical Output Specification and data model.

The Enhanced Technical Output Specification (ETOS) expands upon the Technical Output Specification (TOS) that was provided as part of the Information Standard.

As well as input data items, the ETOS specifies how items are validated on submission, and details of the derived fields that NHS England provide as part of the output data set.

The AACC data model shows how items and groups defined in the TOS relate to each other in an entity relationship diagram style format.

AACC input and output XML schemas are available on the TRUD website.

The XML extract schemas describe the structure of the exports generated by NHS England and can be used to assist in development of in-house analytical and checking tools.

The “input” schema specifies the items and group structure required for submissions sent to NHS England. The “output” schema specifies the items and group structure, including derived items as processed by NHS England.

This guide provides a visual cross-reference of expected item completion for each service request type (for example CHC checklist or direct referral) within the AACC101 referrals assessments and outcomes group.