Guidance to support your DARS application

To help applicants understand more about making an application, NHS England has produced guidance or standards to support your DARS application.

Guidance for making a Data Access Request Service (DARS) enquiry

Guidance to support the DARS preliminary assessment

This guidance provides information to support you during the DARS preliminary assessment stage.

Contract and agreements

Security assurance guidance

Data Access Request Service (DARS) guidance

We have produced DARS Standards which provide guidance on some of the most important information you will need to consider to support your DARS application.

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