Version: 1.0.2 | Published: 1 Dec 2025 | Updated: 45 days ago
Friends and Family Test
Dataset
Summary
Reference Code:
DCB2054
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
Contact Point
Contact Point:
Collection/Extraction Details
Collection Level:
Aggregate level
Frequency:
Dataset publication or collection occurs once a month.
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:
Name:Friends and Family Test - Post-COVID Assessment Clinics
Url:https://standards.nhs.uk/published-standards/friends-and-family-test-postcovid-assessment-clinics
Explanation:DAPB2054-4026
Name:Friends and Family Test - Quarterly Staff Survey
Explanation:DAPB2054-3144
Review & Status
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 Authority 1
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.
Legal Authority 2
Legal Authority:
Section 259 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
Legal Authority 3
Legal Authority:
NHS standard contract
Origin
Name:
NHSE-SD Data Catalogue