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...More
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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...More
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...More
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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...More
The NHS Classifications Service is a team within the Data & Information Services directorate of the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC).
It is the national resource responsible for clinical classifications and associated products and the publication of the national clinical...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...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...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...More
This consultation is now closed. Please see the Results section at the bottom of this page.
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...More
This consultation is now closed. Please see the Results section at the bottom of this page.
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...More
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...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...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
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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...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...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, which will be collated anonymously, will be used 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...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...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...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...More