Coding

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Coding

• UKCPRS coding
• United Kingdom Clinical Product Reference Source
• Model
• Virtual Medicinal Product VMP
• Virtual Medicinal Product Pack VMPP
• Drivers
• ETP and PPA with the PCDD
• Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions
  Prescription Pricing Authority Primary Care Drug
  Dictionary
• Little Supply Chain Involvement until recently

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UKCPRS is the combined total of a number
of related elements.

• One Dictionary
• Made up of -
• Medical Devices
• Secondary care exclusive products
• and all of Primary Care

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The structure is based on five concept classes
Virtual Therapeutic Moiety
Virtual Medicinal Product Pack
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In real life they will look something like
this...
Atenolol
Virtual Therapeutic Moiety
Atenolol 50mg tablet
Atenolol 50mg tablet (Kent)
Prescribing Entity
Virtual Medicinal Product
Actual Medicinal Product
Aggregating Entity VMPP For Contracting
Atenolol 50mg tablets x28
Atenolol 50mg tablets x28 (Kent)
Actual Medicinal Product Pack
Virtual Medicinal Product Pack
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This jargon means you get a hierarchy like ...
Drug product
IS A
Cardiovascular drug
IS A
Beta-blocker drug
IS A
Cardioselective beta-blocker
IS A
Atenolol (drug product)
IS A
Atenolol 50mg tablet
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This jargon means you get a hierarchy like ...
Drug product
IS A
Cardiovascular drug
IS A
Beta-blocker drug
IS A
Cardioselective beta-blocker
IS A
Atenolol (drug product)
IS A
Atenolol 50mg tablet
Virtual Medicinal Product -VMP
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It is the virtual medicinal product that
locks dictionary and terminology together
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Structure of the SNOMED CT drug identifier
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2
99999999
0989121
18 numeric characters
Extension item identifier
Namespace identifier
Partition identifier
Check digit
CDs available or download from
www.nhsia.nhs.uk/ukcprs
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UKCPRS Programme NHS Information Authority
Part of ICRS- Integrated Care Record
Service
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NHS Care Record Service (formerly ICRS)

• NHS Care Record Service
• Part of Information for Health
• Part of 21st Century Strategy for NHS
• Required for the data spine of information
• Electronic Patient Records which will hold data
  about patients from the cradle to the grave.
• Diagnosis, treatment and follow-up
• Operating theatre anaesthetic machine and
  anaesthetics, treatment in hospital discharge
  and GP information
• GP has access to all that took place in hospital.

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Contact Details

• Judie Finesilver
• e-Commerce pharmacist NHS PASA
• judie.finesilver_at_pasa.nhs.uk