The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) and the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) dictionary of medicines and devices (dm+d).
Read more on the NHS Prescription Services pages.
Releases of items ‘NHSBSA dm+d’ and ‘NHSBSA dm+d supplementary’ are made every Monday. Bank Holiday Monday releases should be available on the day, but might not be available until the next day.
Email NHSBSA release questions or feedback to nhsbsa.dmdenquiries@nhs.net.
This is an update to the news published on Delen on 21 March 2024 regarding the inactivation of Medicinal Product therapeutic role groupers.
SNOMED International have provided further advice on the outcome of the consultation on the proposal to inactivate therapeutic role groupers in the Medicinal Product hierarchy. Find information about the impact to content and the timescales for inactivations in the International content in this document (PDF, 97KB).
NHS England plan to reactivate the 178 Medicinal Product therapeutic role groupers (Excel, 15KB) within the SNOMED CT UK Drug Extension to make the content available for SNOMED CT users in the UK once SNOMED International inactivate the content in the International Release.
Email questions or feedback to information.standards@nhs.net.
8 July 2024 9:00 am
As part of the UK Medicines Terminology Futures work, we are seeking feedback from those who use or manage dm+d data, to understand the impacts of uplifting SCCI0052 dm+d.
The scope for uplifting the standard is:
The purpose of uplifting SCCI0052 is to reflect these changes as part of the core dm+d data model and be reflected in the core dm+d extract, rather than as supplementary files.
We've produced a short survey to assess the impact on users and the resultant change to the core dm+d files and download. Please submit responses by 5pm on Friday 21 June 2024.
A sample test file, nhsbsa_dmd_5.1.0_20240513000001.Future.zip (ZIP, 16MB), is available which reflects the proposed changes. This file is not official dm+d data and is for test purposes only.
If you have any issues completing the survey or would like to discuss this work further, email nhsdigital.ukmeds@nhs.net.
4 June 2024 1:00 pm
Read older category news in the news archive.
Use this tool to read the dm+d weekly-released XML files (under item ‘NHSBSA dm+d’ in this category) and convert the content to both Microsoft Excel and comma-separated value (CSV) files.
The tool:
No dm+d releases are included with the tool and must be downloaded separately.
dm+d in a vendor-neutral format.
Read more on the NHS Prescription Services pages.
Email questions or feedback about changes to the data and the editorial policy to
dmdenquiries@nhsbsa.nhs.uk.
Email questions or feedback about the dm+d XML files and the SNOMED CT
UK Drug Extension to
information.standards@nhs.net.
The next release is scheduled for 4:00 am on Monday, 29 July 2024.
The NHSBSA maintains a list of ATC classification and BNF codes linked to products prescribed in Primary Care. They are not an officially endorsed dm+d product and are provided for their own business purposes.
Status: Supported
The next release is scheduled for 4:00 am on Monday, 29 July 2024.