NHS Digital is responsible for the UK management of SNOMED CT, the Read Codes and other products to support the implementation of terminology, including tools and derivative products.
NHS Digital maintains the NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) in partnership with the NHS Business Service Authority.
As part of the national strategy to move to a single terminology across health and care, NHS Digital is in the process of withdrawing the Read Codes. The Standardisation Committee for Care gave notice in December 2014 of this planned withdrawal. Read more on the retirement of Read Version 2 and Clinical Terms Version 3.
A new release of item SNOMED CT human-readable subset - UK Drug Extension is available.
10 July 2024 5:09 pm
A new release of item SNOMED CT UK Monolith Edition, RF2: Snapshot is available.
10 July 2024 5:08 pm
New releases are available:
10 July 2024 5:08 pm
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
SNOMED International are proposing to increase the maximum length of Fully Specified Name and Synonym descriptions from 255 to 4,096 characters.
Read more about the proposal in the document SNOMED International Proposal to Increase Description Length Limit (PDF only, 128KB).
The zip file xSnomedCT_InternationalRF2_TestDescLenDelta_20240505T120000Z.zip (4KB) contains the proposed changes to the Description Type Refset.
As the UK Member's National Release Centre, NHS England is collating feedback from SNOMED CT users in the UK on behalf of SNOMED International. To provide feedback on this proposal, submit your response by 5pm on Wednesday, 31 July 2024.
Email questions or feedback to information.standards@nhs.net.
17 May 2024 9:29 am
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