Clinical Coding

A member of the Network contacted us recently asking about Clinical Coding and Information Governance (Professional Practice Competency 19).

At our Board Meeting this afternoon, Alex shared a few of the resources that helped her to complete this competency. These links are:

Clinical coding (the last two are written to explain the concept to lay people, perfect if you've never heard of it before!)

• The World Health Organisation www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/
• Jordan Lee Smith, writing in The Guardian, 17th July 2015 www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2015/jul/17/clinical-coder-like-being-detective-nhs
• Institute of Health Records and Information Management, published 25 Aug 2016: www.ihrim.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=274:back-the-epr-arms-august-2016-coding&catid=54&Itemid=452

Relevant specifically to biochemisty:

• www.thinkkidneys.nhs.uk/aki/blog/clinical-coding-and-acute-kidney-injury-aki/

For the Information Governance aspect, mandatory training via ESR Oracle may be useful:

• NHS e-Learning’s Introduction to Information Governance course
• HSCIC (now NHS Digital)’s Code of Practice on Confidential Information: http://systems.digital.nhs.uk/infogov/codes/cop/code.pdf -