Hospitals in England are reimbursed via national tariffs set out by NHS England. The tariffs payable to hospitals are determined by the activity coded for each patient’s hospital visit. There are no ...

A coding error in software used by doctors has led to confidential data of around 150,000 NHS patients being shared without their permission. These patients had ...

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Clinical coding is a process by which descriptions of diseases, injuries or procedures are assigned a numeric or alphanumeric designation. Coding provides a mechanism for standardizing the recording ...

Camilla Cavendish’s otherwise excellent article on sharing data in the NHS (“Sharing patient data is something to be celebrated, not feared”, Opinion, FT Weekend, April 1) omitted two essential points ...