13 December 2018

Migration to SNOMED - a Christmas guide

A Christmas guide to clinical coding
BMJ 2018;363:k5209 13 December 2018
  • Read codes have been the main clinical coding system in UK primary care since the mid-1990s. The UK government recently decided that the NHS would migrate all clinical systems to use SNOMED by 2020, with primary care the first to migrate. 
  • See : SNOMED CT implementation in primary care