Version: 1.0.2 | Published: 17 May 2024 | Updated: 566 days ago
Friends and Family Test
Dataset
Summary
Type:
collections
Effective From:
01 April 2013
Applies To:
- NHS funded inpatient and type I & II A&E services
- Maternity services
- Outpatient services
- Inpatient day cases, including children and young people and accident and emergency
- Walk-in-centres/minor injury units
- Mental health and community healthcare
- NHS funded ambulance and patient transport services
- Post-COVID syndrome assessment clinic services
Topics:
- Adult
- Care
- Child
- Service
Care Settings:
- Community health
- Hospital
- Maternity
- Mental health
- Urgent and Emergency Care
- Walk in centre
Alternate Name:
- FFT
- Friends and Family Test (FFT) data collection
Documentation
Description:
The FFT asks people about their experience of services they have used and offers a range of responses.
When combined with supplementary follow-up questions, the FFT provides a way to highlight both good experience and opportunities for improvement. This kind of feedback will help us to improve NHS services.
Documentation Link:
Relations:
- Friends and Family Test - Post-COVID Assessment ClinicsDAPB2054-4026
- Friends and Family Test - Quarterly Staff SurveyDAPB2054-3144
Document Control
Scope:
Acute Trusts, Ambulance Trusts, Care Trusts, Community Trusts, Mental health
Trusts, Voluntary and independent sector providers.
Technical Committee:
Data Co-ordination Board (DCB)
Mandated:
Yes
Status:
active
Legal Authorities
Legal Authority:
Section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
Legal Authority Description:
This standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act
2012.
Origin
Name:
NHSE-SD Data Catalogue