User guides & reference data

Links for our IMS user guides, forms, and reference data documents.

IMS User guides

Version

Updated

IMS online - Complete user guide version 2.0 November 2016

IMS online quick guides

IMS online - Drug Related Deaths version 2.0 November 2020
IMS online - Assessments module quick quide version 3.0 September 2018
IMS online - IMS user accounts - password expiry quide version 1.0 September 2017
IMS online - Reports dashboard user quide version 1.0 July 2017
IMS online - Home page updates & my user details version 1.0 July 2017
IMS online - Drug Related Deaths form - Data entry quide version 1.0 October 2016
IMS online - NPS 'legal highs' & club drugs module quick quide version 1.1 October 2015
IMS online - Naloxone module quick quide version 1.1 October 2015

IMS client review forms

IMS Core Data Set - Client assessment form (short version) version 3.2 April 2024
IMS Core Data Set - Client assessment form version 3.1 April 2019
IMS data entry - spreadsheet template(YP Services) version 1.0 November 2017
NPS (legal highs) record - data capture form version 1.0 August 2017
IMS wellbeing review questions version 1.0 March 2015

IMS data set & reference documentation

IMS Drug & Alcohol Related Deaths - Core Data Set updates CDS version B January 2024
IMS Drug Related Deaths - Surveillance and review system overview version 1.0 July 2022
IMS online - Terms and Conditions for the IMS online tool version 3.0 October 2021
IMS Intervention Categories version 1.0 April 2020
IMS COVID survey questions version 1.0 April 2020
IMS quarterly dates for data entry / data submission version 2.0 July 2020
IMS Privacy & Data Security Guide
(this replaces the 'IMS data sharing and confidentiality toolkit')
version 4.0 October 2021
IMS data definitions and guidelines version 1.7 December 2014
IMS data extract fields version 1.7 November 2014
IMS data reference tables version 1.7 November 2014
IMS compliant data extract example (downloadable CSV file containing test data)

Needle exchange forms

Needle exchange poster
Information for clients who use the needle exchange
version 1.0 January 2019
Pharmacy needle exchange recording form - Liverpool September 2018
Pharmacy needle exchange form - St. Helens version 6.0 September 2016
Pharmacy needle exchange form - Warrington version 5.0 June 2014
Pharmacy needle exchange form - Halton version 4.0 June 2016
Needle exchange form - 'Pick and Mix' version 1.0 December 2016

SharePoint

PHI Monitoring Team SharePoint site (Password required to access SharePoint)

Other forms & reference documentation

NDTMS: outcome monitoring forms
link to external site - PHE owned content
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National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) reference documentation and dataset guidelines
link to external site - PHE content
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Alcohol use screening tests
link to external site - PHE content
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Performance & Image Enhancing Drugs Assessment Tools
link to external site - copyright Nigel Brunsdon injectingadvice.com
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