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)