Croydon are about to agree the use of two local codes to be used in
addition to the basic 16+1 codes. These are Sri Lankan and Black British.
These groups were chosen as they had both health needs or access
requirements relating to ethnicity and form a large enough minority of
Croydon's population. There were pressures to both increase and decrease
the number of codes to be used but this represents (what I believe will be)
the negotiated settlement.
Black British is already one of the 'long list' (code PC) - Croydon has
promoted it to the short list. Sri Lankan is currently included in
Indian but we wish to separately identify them. We have chosen HA as a
suitable code in the right place in the hierarchy. Croydon HA will be
asking providers with whom it does a lot of business to use these extra
categories in their collection procedures.
There is no central registry of made-up codes which could lead to problems
later. Providers may be faced with the task of synthesising the short lists
of purchasers into a short of medium list. Specialist centres who service a
number of purchasers could end up with a short list longer than the long list.
Do others know of plans to include local codes in ethnic category collections?
Ian
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Ian Nottage
Information Management and Technology Consultant
Eyrewell Informatics
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