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Blood pressure

Blood pressures in GP2GP are sent as a compound statement containing child statements representing systolic and diastolic values.  Each of these statements (BP, systolic, diastolic) has to be clinically coded (and all systems use READ for this). 

When this statement is imported into Vision 3, it creates a BP entity and looks to fill the systolic and diastolic attributes with the correct child statement from the compound.  This is done by converting the child clinical code to Read, then populating systolic from the statement which has a code mapping to '2469.00' and similarly diastolic from the statement with code mapping to '246A.00'.  As the READ dictionary used by Vision 3 says that the corresponding text for these codes is "O/E Systolic BP reading" and "O/E Diastolic BP reading" respectively rather than "Systolic blood pressure" and "Diastolic blood pressure", it issues a warning (based on the algorithm described above).  Were EMIS to send the correct text for this code, the warning would disappear.  The user verification should be a check that the Vision 3 importer is correct to map '2469.00 - Systolic blood pressure' to '2469.00 - O/E Systolic BP reading' which it clearly is, etc.  I.e. the verification occurs using the information in the Import Summary only.