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{{Short description|Medical code system used in the UK}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}}

'''Read codes''' are a [[Medical terminology|clinical terminology]] system that was in widespread use in [[General Practice]] in the United Kingdom until around 2018, when NHS England switched to using [[SNOMED CT]]. Read codes are still in use in Scotland and in England arewere permitted for use in NHS secondary care settings, such as dentistry and mental health care until 31 March 2020. Read codes support detailed clinical encoding of multiple patient phenomena including: occupation; social circumstances; ethnicity and religion; clinical signs, symptoms and observations; laboratory tests and results; diagnoses; diagnostic, therapeutic or surgical procedures performed; and a variety of administrative items (e.g. whether a screening recall has been sent and by what communication modality, or whether an item of service fee has been claimed). It therefore includes but goes significantly beyond the expressivity of a [[diagnosis code|diagnosis coding]] system.

==History==