SNOMED CT

SNOMED CT stands for Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms and is a common, standardised clinical coding language that replaces Read/CTV3 codes within the NHS.

SNOMED CT is the most comprehensive and precise clinical health terminology product in the world. It includes diagnosis and procedures, symptoms, family history, allergies, assessment tools, observations, devices and other content to support healthcare delivery.

Further information on SNOMED can be found at:

• NHS Digital SNOMED CT

Vision Anywhere uses SNOMED for data entry, this makes searching for codes more accurate and efficient as the SNOMED Concept Types are utilised.

To help you quickly find the correct term, tags are allocated to each concept type level and display alongside the clinical term.

For example, entering Cough, displays "Symptom or examination finding", whereas Cough fracture displays "Diagnosis", to indicate the type of code selected.

A summary of these is detailed below:

Concept Type	Tag visible in Vision Anywhere	SNOMED Concept Type Level
0	(blank)	N/A
1	Diagnosis	Disorder
2	Symptom or examination finding	Finding
3	Patient circumstance	Situation
4	Observable	Observable entity
5	Procedure	Procedure
6	Abnormal anatomy	Morphologic abnormality
7	Assessment scale	Assessment Scale
8	Event affecting patient	Event
9	Specimen	Specimen
10	Tumour staging	Tumour staging
11	Staging scale	Staging scale
12	Occupation	Occupation
13	Personal status	Person
14	Religion	Religion/philosophy
15	Navigational concept	Navigational concept
16	Location of care or event	Environment
17	Racial group	Racial group
18	Ethnic group	Ethnic group
19	Lifestyle	Lifestyle
20	Social status	Social Concept
21	Anatomy	Body Structure
22	Qualifier	Qualifier
23	Record type	Record artefact
24	Substance	Substance
25	Physical object	Physical object
26	Regime or therapy	Regime/Therapy
27	Family history	Family history

See - SNOMED FAQ.