The group has been established to provide guidance and assistance to NHS Connecting for Health programmes in the development and implementation of standards in a consistent manner. The SCG will operate across programme boundaries providing consolidated review and guidance services.

The group's objective is to develop the Data Standards and Products portfolio, to enable a full longitudinal electronic healthcare record that supports clinical practice.

Publications

These sections provide access to the documents published by the Standards Consulting Group (SCG).

Clinical

• SCG Guidance on the Representation of Allergies and Adverse Reaction Information Using NHS Message Templates (PDF 549Kb). This is designed to provide detailed technical information on the representation of allergies and adverse reactions when using NHS message templates.

  This guidance is aimed at the MIM 6.03.01 clinical domains, i.e. Inpatient Discharge, Emergency Department and Outpatient sections of the Personal Spine Information Service (PSIS) Clinical Document Architecture.

  This document provides; guidance on populating Allergies and Adverse Reactions templates, the SNOMED CT codes to be used, and example xml.

• SCG Guidance on the Use of Specific Medication NHS Message Templates (PDF 303Kb). This guidance is designed to provide detailed technical information on the representation of medications when using NHS message templates.

  This issue of the guidance is aimed at MIM 6.3.01 clinical domains, i.e. Inpatient Discharge, Emergency Department and Outpatient sections of the Personal Spine Information Service (PSIS) Clinical Document Architecture (CDA).

  N.B. Where a HL7 RMIM/model or any other Message Implementation Manual (MIM) artefact is shown this may not be the latest version of that artefact and the relevant version of the MIM should be consulted for the actual artefact version to implement.

Technical

• SCG Clarification on Time Zone (PDF 134Kb). This document is designed to provide clear requirements on the usage of time fields within MIM defined message payloads, times in messages (ebXML) as well as Audit and appropriate outputs for use within and between NHS Connecting for Health (NHS CFH) compliant systems. Appendix (PDF 31kb).
• SCG Guidance on Telecommunication Standards (PDF 172Kb). Guidance on the common approach for telecommunication standards and the rules needed for processing and displaying the MIM data type TEL for telephone numbers and email addresses.

Standards

• SCG Guidance: How to Use the Religious or Other Belief System Affiliation List (PDF 200Kb). The purpose of this document is to provide guidance on the use and recording of patients' religious or other belief system affiliation.
• SCG Guidance: How to convert Diacritic Characters within Patient Names (PDF 450Kb). * This document has been developed as guidance on how to convert diacritic characters that exist in a patient's name. The scope of this document will focus on diacritic characters that exist in names from all official European Union (EU) writing scripts and at minimum all modern diacritic characters used in the alphabets of the 23 official EU languages.

*Voted as "the most useful shared item of information" in 2009 - Data Quality Guild Awards

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