The Information Governance Toolkit (IGT) is an existing approved Information Standard. It is an online performance tool produced by Department of Health (DH) to support organisations to meet their information governance obligations and to enable organisations to measure their performance against information governance requirements. All organisations that fall under the responsibility of DH are required to carry out self-assessments of their compliance against the IG requirements.
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SNOMED CT® is the terminology identified in the ‘Power of Information’ as the terminology that all systems should use to exchange coded clinical information. The data files that are required for systems to provide SNOMED CT are currently available from the UK Terminology Centre (UKTC) using a structure known as release format 1 (RF1). The international core of SNOMED CT (provided by the...More
The national information standard for end of life care co-ordination was published in March 2012. This standard aims to support communication and co-ordination of end of life care between the professionals and services delivering care. In this way people approaching the end of life are supported to die in the place of their choosing and with their preferences and choices for care met. Minor amendments were made to the standard in October 2012.
The standard is being implemented across...More
The NHS Data Model and Dictionary includes definitions to support the e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) and the UK Government Data Standards Catalogue (GDSC). Following Cabinet Office advice that the framework should now be considered deprecated, the NHS Data Model and Dictionary Service issued DDCN 1345/2013 e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) and Government Data Standards Catalogue to advise that e-Gif/GDSC definitions were archived.
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The UK Terminology Centre and the NHS Classifications Service maintain links from clinical terms (Read Codes V2, Clinical Terms V3, SNOMED CT) to classifications (OPCS-4 and ICD-10) that are known as ‘cross-maps’.
The cross-maps are tools used to support the transformation of clinical terms recorded in the patient record into classification codes (ICD-10 and OPCS-4) that are then used to satisfy mandatory data collections and submissions, such as the Admitted Patient Care...More
The Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) system contains statistical information about the care provided to hospital inpatients, outpatients and accident & emergency (A&E) patients.
HES is currently missing considerable amounts of data that hospitals already record about their patients. In order to continue to raise standards and reduce inequities in care, NHS England believes it is important for this additional data to be incorporated into the next generation of HES.
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The NHS dictionary of medicines and devices (dm+d) is the NHS choice for recording details of medicines and devices in the electronic patient record and is the medicines standard approved by the Information Standards Board (ISB).
‘The Power of Information’ (The Department of Health's information strategy http://informationstrategy.dh.gov.uk/ ) states that to allow information to flow around the (care) system well all systems should use the same terminology, and for medicines...More
The NHS Data Model and Dictionary includes definitions to support the reporting of the provision of healthcare for overseas visitors.
Following publication of the new guidance “ EU cross border healthcare: information for commissioners (July 2013) ”, the NHS Data Model and Dictionary Service are reviewing the items relating to overseas visitors in the NHS Data Model and Dictionary.
A number of these items are out of date, and / or are not used in any data set within the NHS Data...More
Since November 2009 there have been two Safety Standards to define how clinical risk management should be applied and managed in both the manufacture (ISB 0129) and the deployment (ISB 0160) of health software in the NHS.
As part of the normal maintenance cycle for NHS standards, an assessment has been made of the implementation of these two standards. Based on the results of this assessment, the standards were revised to create simpler and more structured documentation; with the...More
Since November 2009 there have been two Safety Standards to define how clinical risk management should be applied and managed in both the manufacture (ISB 0129) and the deployment (ISB 0160) of health software in the NHS.
As part of the normal maintenance cycle for NHS standards, an assessment has been made of the implementation of these two standards. Based on the results of this assessment, the standards were revised to create simpler and more structured documentation; with the...More
The NHS Data Model and Dictionary contains class diagrams to assist with navigating and understanding definitions contained within the Dictionary.
The NHS Data Model and Dictionary Service would like to hold a detailed consultation on these diagrams, which will look at how the diagrams are currently used, their accessibility and how they can be improved.
If you use the class diagrams and are interested in participating, please complete the questions in this survey.
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The NHS Data Model and Dictionary contains class diagrams to assist with navigating and understanding definitions contained within the Dictionary.
The NHS Data Model and Dictionary Service would like to hold a detailed consultation on these diagrams, which will look at how the diagrams are currently used, their accessibility and how they can be improved.
If you use the class diagrams and are interested in participating, please complete the questions in this survey.
To be...More
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Following feedback we have launched a subsequent consultation on care plans -
SCCI Statement of Need – Care Plans in the paperless NHS
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There are a number of different email services in health and social care with differing security levels and interoperability requirements. This becomes an impediment to sharing sensitive or personal data between organisations. In theory all the systems are governed by the same law, regulations and standards yet in practice this is not the case.
This standard establishes the minimum requirements for email systems in health and care. The intention is not to impose significant requirements...More
The National Pathology Programme (NPP) ( http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/qual-clin-lead/npp/ ) wishes to implement a number of essential safety related updates to the Pathology Bounded Code List (PBCL) Catalogue of READ coded report items. The updates, intended to be introduced during 2014 (April and October), are significantly different to the routine “business as usual” updates that have been performed six monthly over recent years (usually approximately 20-30 changes per release)....More
The National Pathology Programme (NPP) ( http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/qual-clin-lead/npp/ ) wishes to implement a number of essential safety related updates to the Pathology Bounded Code List (PBCL) Catalogue of READ coded report items. The updates, intended to be introduced during 2014 (April and October), are significantly different to the routine “business as usual” updates that have been performed six monthly over recent years (usually approximately 20-30 changes per release)....More
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NHS England is developing an information standard aimed at ensuring that disabled patients, service users and carers receive information from health and social care organisations in formats that they can understand, and that they receive appropriate support to communicate, which may include advocacy. More information, including details of ways for people to get involved, is available at ...More
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The National Interim Clinical Imaging Procedure Code Set has been published by the UKTC since 2007 and was approved by the Information Standards Board (ISB) for Health and Social Care as an NHS information standard in December 2009. The ISB scope of approval for use of the standard was “to provide a standard terminology for describing clinical imaging procedures to facilitate identification of...More
The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s Clinical Classifications Service is undertaking the necessary development work to support the implementation of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems – Tenth Revision (ICD-10) 5 th Edition by NHS and NHS system suppliers from 1 April 2015 through the release of ICD-10 data files and publication of updated ICD-10 books, associated clinical coding standards and training materials.
ICD-10 is...More
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Comprehensive reference data for organisations that deliver health and social care has been maintained and published by a central service for the last twenty years. The data comprises authoritative national lists for a wide range of organisations of interest to the NHS, including a standard set of identification codes, a change history record, reference data to support NHS information systems and...More
Currently the NHS Data Model and Dictionary contains many Data Sets which between them, on rough calculation, comprise approximately 2,000 Data Elements, supporting a wide range of activities including:
Local and national resource management and performance management
Monitoring Quality Indicators, service agreements and Health Improvement Programmes
Planning and commissioning activity
National policy analysis, evaluation, monitoring and fair access to...More
It is the policy of the Clinical Classifications Service to continuously monitor and evaluate the quality of our training courses and events. It would be helpful if you could complete all parts of this online evaluation form. Your responses will be collated and used to improve our website information and the design and delivery of future trainer assessment days.
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August 2014: The results of this consultation have been published and can be found as part of the August 2014 SCCI papers , agenda Item 9.
It has, for several years, been the stated strategic direction for the NHS in England to adopt a single terminology for the capture and exchange of structured coded clinical data. That single terminology is SNOMED CT. This approach will go a long way to ensuring realisation of the current strategic priorities of paperless working, sharing and...More
It is the policy of the Clinical Classifications Service to continuously monitor and evaluate the quality of our training courses and events. It would be helpful if you could complete all parts of this online evaluation form. Your responses will be collated and used to improve our website information and the design and delivery of future trainer refresher courses.
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It is the policy of the Clinical Classifications Service to continuously monitor and evaluate the quality of our training courses and events. It would be helpful if you could complete all parts of this online evaluation form. Your responses will be collated and used to improve our website information and the design and delivery of future trainer assessment days.
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In November 2012 the Clinical Classifications Service (CCS) consulted on a preferred PYZ methodology for use in coding procedures (single or multiple) using the OPCS-4 classification, in order to provide uniformity of clinical coding. Introduction of a standard sequencing logic will allow a consistent presentation of all actions which take place during single or multiple interventions, and will enable the clinical coding professional to describe in full detail the actions of each separate...More
As part of our product review process we have identified some technical changes to the files we distribute as part of the release of the UK Edition of SNOMED CT that we feel would be advantageous to implement.
This consultation details the proposed changes, and in some cases proposes a number of options that could be taken and asks you to indicate your preferred option.
The consultation considers two main changes:
To the filenames of those subsets/refsets that are...More
It is the policy of the Clinical Classifications Service to continuously monitor and evaluate the quality of our training courses and events. It would be helpful if you could complete all parts of this online evaluation form. Your responses will be collated and used to improve our website information and the design and delivery of future clinical coding audit workshops.
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HSCIC provides a number of services on behalf of the Standardisation Committee for Care Information (SCCI), the entity that has assumed responsibility for the national governance of information standards and collections (including extractions) (ISCEs).
We want to understand the communications needs of our users, so that we can ensure the quality and effectiveness of the communication products we are developing to inform the standards community of SCCI activity.
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The proposal to develop a national standard for care plans was considered at the April 2014 meeting of the Standardisation Committee for Care Information (SCCI). The proposal was broadly welcomed but SCCI requested further assessment of both the current use of care plans and the appetite to develop a national standard.
This consultation is aimed at assessing that “take up” and...More