2010 Update

National Activities:

First release of renal disorders subset developed by the UK Renal Association and the Renal Information Exchange.

Guidance on the use of SNOMED CT in care planning has been produced.

Production of guidance focussed on the primary care sector to support migration to systems which incorporate SNOMED CT.

Functionality to support reference set development in the Workbench has been completed and plans for the introduction of other product authoring are well advanced with Workbench tooling to support the ICD-10 uplift in the UK going live on April 6th.

Additional enhancements to the UK licensing and distribution tool have gone live and development of our request submission portal continues.

Further on-line educational resources have been developed during 2010 and the UKTC website has been refreshed.

Efforts to re-establish a WHO Family of International Classifications Collaborating Centre in the UK are continuing.

Mappings from SNOMED CT Emergency Medicine concepts to UK administrative data dictionary codes for secondary uses have been developed.

Mappings from SNOMED CT to OPCS-4 Interventions and Procedure Classification have been updated to the latest revision - OPCS-4.6

Workbench tooling is being developed to support the intended update for the NHS from ICD-10 Reprinted 2000 (with updates and corrections) to ICD-10 4^th Edition.

UKTC continue to support Phase 1 of the IHTSDO SNOMED CT to ICD-10 mapping project with donation of 0.5 FTE Map Lead.

Affiliate activities: 

The following is an indication of affiliate activity in the UK:

• To date approximately 30 million prescription messages using drug concepts represented by SNOMED CT identifiers have been used for dispensing
• 98% of General Practitioners have prescribing systems using SNOMED CT identifiers for drug concepts to send prescription messages
• Extensively used systems in the community and mental health domains are at a late stage of development of their SNOMED CT supported functionality for prescribing, allergy recording, condition recording, and associated clinical decision support.