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SNOMED CT

SNOMED CT is a structured clinical vocabulary for use in electronic health records.

SNOMED CT is the required standard across the NHS. It must be used as the clinical standard before 1 April 2020. This applies to systems used for the direct management of individual care within:

  • secondary care
  • acute care
  • mental health services
  • community services
  • dentistry
  • optometry

SNOMED must be used by all other providers of health related services before 1 April 2020. This applies to systems where the flow of information for the direct management of patient care comes into the NHS.

Resources

Information Standards Notice - changeTraining and educationSNOMED CT Implementation in primary careSNOMED CT Implementation in primary care newsKey publications - SNOMED CT Implementation in primary careUK SNOMED browserNHS Digital terminologyDownload SNOMED CTRequest submission portalSNOMED International

Dental reference data files

Dental oral surgery (text: 21KB)Dental procedures (text: 2KB)Dental procedures by tooth (text: 2KB)Dental tooth deciduous (text: 7KB)Dental tooth permanent (text: 10KB)Dental tooth supernumerary (text: 10KB)Dental tooth surface (text: 11KB)