Terming and Technical Updates

Terming and technical updates are included with the main release of the Read Codes. These summary reports give details of terming and technical changes made to Version 2 and Version 3 since the previous release (for more detail on the term changes/additions, see the Change Reports)

Click on the links below to view the terming and technical updates:

4Byte

• Following the announcement of the withdrawal of support for maintenance by NHS Connecting for Health UK Terminology Centre (UKTC), there will now be no new versions of the clinical 4 Byte Read Codes issued.

V2

• UKTC READ V2 Techupd 20120401 (PDF, 83.3kB)
• UKTC READ V2 Termup 20120401 (PDF, 57.1kB)

V3

• UKTC READ CTV3 Techupd 20120401 (PDF, 47.7kB)
• UKTC READ CTV3 Termup 20120401 (PDF, 93.3kB)

Change Reports

Change reports are issued with the main release of the Read Codes. These reports list additions and other changes made to the Read Codes since the previous release.

Click on the links below to view the reports:

4Byte

• See above regarding the discontinuation of 4Byte releases.

V2

• UKTC READ V2 chgrep (TXT, 244.6kB)

V3

• curoptv3.txt (TXT, 1kB)
• curredv3.txt (TXT, 1kB)
• newconv3.txt (TXT, 273.4kB)
• optcurv3.txt (TXT, 1kB)
• redoptv3.txt (TXT, 1kB)

For further information on these files, see the Change Reports section

Summary of New Additions

Click on the links below to view the reports:

V2

• New additions to V2 (XLS, 83.5kB)

V3

• New additions to V3 (XLS, 427.5kB)