Dictionary of Medicines and Devices
Standardised dictionary of medicines licensed in the United Kingdom for use in the NHS.
About this standard
- Publisher
- NHS England
- Also known as
- DM+D
- Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d): Conversion
- Reference code
- SCCI0052 Amd 13/2013
- Publication date
- 07/04/2017
- Status
- Active
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Active. Active standards are stable, maintained and have been approved, assured or endorsed for use by qualified bodies.
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- Standard type
- Information standards
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Collections. A Collection is a systematic gathering of a specified selection of data or information for a particular stated purpose from existing records held within health and care systems and electronic devices.
Extractions. An extraction is a type of collection that is pulled from an operational system by the data controller and transmitted to the receiver without additional processing or transcription by the sender.
Information standards. Information standards are agreed ways of doing something, written down as a set of precise criteria so they can be used as rules, guidelines, or definitions.
Technical Standards and specifications. Technical standards and specifications specify how to make information available technically including how the data is structured and transported.
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- Applies to
- Health and Care Organisations purchasing systems that support recording and communication of information about medicines
- Health and Care Organisations using medicines\u0027 information for reimbursement, pharmacovigilance, drug utilisation, supply chain
- Impacts on
- Suppliers of IT systems that support recording and communication of information about medicines used in patient care including, but not limited to: e-prescribing, administration, dispensing, medication history, reimbursement. No changes are required to those electronic systems already using dm+d. No changes are made to the distribution of data files. Pharmaceutical companies: no changes need to be made by pharmaceutical companies supplying product details for use in dm+d. No changes to the submission process are introduced.
- Conformance date
- 30/06/2017
Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Clinical decision support
- Data definitions and terminologies
- Dispensing
- Messaging
- Prescribing
- Reference data
- Tests and diagnostics
- Care setting
- Community health
- Hospital
- Maternity
- Mental health
- Pharmacy
- Urgent and Emergency Care
Dependencies and related standards
- Related standards
- Automatic Identification and Data Capture DAPB0108
- Electronic Yellow Card Reporting DCB1582
- Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Deployment and Use of Health IT Systems DCB0160
- Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Manufacture of Health IT Systems DCB0129
- Read Clinical Terms Version 3 ISB 1552
- Read Clinical Terms Version 2 ISB 1553 SNOMED CT supersedes READ codes as a terminology.
- SNOMED CT SCCI0034
- Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy Data Set DCB1533
- The Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA)
- HIV and AIDS Reporting System (HARS) SCCI1570
- Automatic Identification and Data Capture
Review Information
- Scope
- NHS Services
- Sponsor
Elizabeth Woodeson, Department of Health
- Senior Responsible Officer
Alistair McDonald, NHS Business Services Authority
- Business Lead
- Stuart Abbott, NHS Digital
- Approval date
- 28/03/2017
- Post Implementation review Date
- 30/06/2018
Legal basis and endorsements
- Legal authority
Section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
This information standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
More information
This standard comprises:
- A model of the components required to represent a medicine used in patient care, along with additional components specific to the reimbursement process used in primary care.
- Content that is maintained and distributed according to approved policies and processes.
- A governance structure that supports requirements for an evolving but stable set of implementable terminology products.
- Identification of medicines within the supply chain by the inclusion of GS1 GTIN codes where known.
The scope of the standard in terms of content is for medicines only; medical devices are currently excluded. The primary purpose is to support interoperability. Therefore electronic systems that exchange or share information about medicines relating directly to a patient’s care must adhere to the standard by using dm+d identifiers and descriptions when transferring information.
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