Guidance

Standards for official statistics published by DHSC

Information on the Department of Health and Social Care's (DHSC) approach to the use of administrative sources for statistical purposes.

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The statement on revisions and corrections policy sets out how revisions and corrections to the Department of Health and Social Care’s statistical outputs, whether scheduled or not, take place in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

Updates to this page

Published 5 March 2021
Last updated 7 May 2025 + show all updates
  1. Renamed the ‘Statement on revision policy’ to 'Statement on revisions and corrections policy' and updated the content terminology from unscheduled revisions to unscheduled corrections.

  2. Amended 'Statement on revision policy' to include information about OHID. Also added new attachment 'Statement of compliance with the pre-release access to official statistics order 2008'.

  3. First published.

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