For anyone interested in the National Pathology Catalogue:
Dear Subject Matter Experts,
It has come time once again to perform a review of the National Pathology Catalogue. As you may have been involved in this important task in the past, I am sure you are aware that reviewing the Catalogue is an ongoing piece of work which is vitally important in ensuring the validity and relevance of the content of the catalogue from a national perspective. In the very near future the Royal College of Pathologists is to undertake it's own review of the catalogue which will be based on the outcome of this particular SME review. At this point, it is envisaged that the College will take on a governance role over the content of the Catalogue.
The latest version of the catalogue is currently online at "espace" (http://www.espace.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/) which is a Connecting For Health hosted website used for sharing experiences, networking and collaborating on activities which affect the National Programme for IT. You will need to register to use the website and then select NHS Pathology IT <http://www.espace.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/community/nhs-pathology-it> as one of your communities. You will then find the version 6.0 of the catalogue in the "News" section.
There are a number of items which require attention in this workshop as well as individual reviews after the event. Amongst the items required for scrutiny are:
· Order forms - these are the forms which are used when requesting a particular test
· Editorial Principles - the conventions applied when naming requests
· National versus local attributes - the aspects of each request such as disciplines, specimens and
· Additional tests - which have not yet undergone review including their national (and possibly local) attributes
· Ambiguous test names
· Units of Measurement
· Components of Dynamic Function Tests and profiles
Initially this email is to invite you to attend in order that you may block off your diary. I will be sending a further email which will include documents for review prior to the workshop as well as an agenda and location.
The workshop is planned to take place in London but the venue is yet to be arranged.
Please could you respond to inform me if you are able to attend or unable to attend.
Whether you are able to attend or not, I would also appreciate it if you could also inform me of the discipline/s in which you work and your place of work.
The National Pathology Catalogue, now in its sixth version, is a piece of work which aims at providing a single pathology catalogue which contains pathology requests that can be used across England by any of the Care Records systems providers with their particular solutions. There has long been a need for consistency in pathology requests across the country and this work has also aimed at providing this.
Catalogue work first began in June 2007 and was originally a collation of data from across three National Programme for IT regions; The Southern, London and North Midlands and East Programmes for IT. The Catalogue was then "cleansed" of duplicates and augmented with individually requested tests from sites that had either just deployed or were just about to deploy the Catalogue. Since then further cleansing and additions have taken place which have included reviews by Subject Matter Experts (those with pathology backgrounds) amongst hundreds of other individuals. This work continues in order to maintain an up to date and accurate catalogue of pathology requests.
Adam Bargery
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