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News and release notices
SNOMED CT International Edition
A new release of item SNOMED CT International Edition is available.
Increasing SNOMED International description length limits
Following the Delen news article on the proposal to increase description length limits, SNOMED International has published a briefing note, available on Delen:
MF Briefing Note - Conclusion on Increasing Description Type length limits
A blog post with further information is also available on the SNOMED International website:
As SNOMED International has outlined, the change to the description length limits will be implemented in the 1 July 2026 International Edition release. It will take effect in the October 2026 SNOMED CT UK release.
If you have any questions or concerns, email information.standards@nhs.net.
SNOMED CT UK Data Migration Workbench
A new release of item SNOMED CT UK Data Migration Workbench is available.
SNOMED CT human-readable subsets
New releases are available:
SNOMED CT UK Query Table and History Substitution Table
A new release of item SNOMED CT UK Query Table and History Substitution Table is available.
UK Drug bonus files
A new release of item UK Drug bonus files is available.
SNOMED CT UK Monolith Edition, RF2: Snapshot
A new release of item SNOMED CT UK Monolith Edition, RF2: Snapshot is available.
SNOMED CT UK Drug Extension, RF2
New releases are available:
SNOMED CT UK Clinical Edition, RF2
New releases are available:
ODS XML Organisation Data
A new release of item ODS XML Organisation Data is available.
Organisation Reference Data
A new release of item Organisation Reference Data is available.
NHS ODS weekly prescribing-related data
A new release of item NHS ODS weekly prescribing-related data is available.
NHS ODS weekly prescribing-related data
A new release of item NHS ODS weekly prescribing-related data is available.
Aligning the SNOMED CT UK Drug Extension model with SNOMED International
Further to the news on Delen regarding changes to the SNOMED CT UK Drug Extension, NHS England will go live with the phase 1 changes in release 41.0.0, due for publication on 1 October 2025.
For more detail about this work, see NHS England's updating the SNOMED CT UK Drug Extension model page.
If you have questions or concerns, contact: nhsdigital.ukmeds@nhs.net
Read older news and release notices in the news archive.