Cancer Diagnostics Data Project
Diagnostic Imaging Dataset – Data Specification
Since the previous version seen by the Project Board (1.7), the following changes have been made:
Data item
Patient Type
NHS number status indicator
Imaging code (NICIP)
and/or
Imaging code (SNOMED-CT)
NHS Number, DoB, Ethnicity,
Gender, Postcode, GP Practice
Exam Multiplier
Interventional Test
Change
Now a mandatory item
Added
Combined
It is now mandatory to include one of these data items
Removed
Removed
Name
NHS DD Reference
M/R/O
Comments
NHS number
NHS number status
Date of birth
Ethnicity
Patient gender
Patient home
postcode
Patient registered
GP practice
Patient Type
NHS NUMBER
NHS NUMBER STATUS INDICATOR CODE
PERSON BIRTH DATE
ETHNIC CATEGORY
PERSON GENDER CODE CURRENT
POSTCODE OF USUAL ADDRESS
M*
R
M*
M*
M*
M*
Patient-identifiable data
GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTICE CODE (PATIENT REGISTRATION)
M*
Patient-identifiable data
New DD data item: “PATIENT SOURCE SETTING TYPE (DIAGNOSTIC
IMAGING)”
M
Referrer
REFERRER CODE
R
Setting that the patient has come from: IP
(overnight) / IP (day case) / OP / GP (direct
access) / A&E / Other Healthcare Provider / Other
Referring practitioner code
Referring
organisation
Date of test request
REFERRING ORGANISATION CODE
R
Referring organisation code
New DD data item: “DIAGNOSTIC TEST REQUEST DATE”
R
Date test request
received
Imaging code
(NICIP)
or
Imaging code
(SNOMED-CT)
New DD data item: “DIAGNOSTIC TEST REQUEST RECEIVED DATE”
R
New DD data item: “IMAGING CODE (NICIP)”
or
New DD data item: “IMAGING CODE (SNOMED-CT)”
M
Date of test
Date test report
issued
Provider site code
New DD data item: “DIAGNOSTIC TEST DATE”
SERVICE REPORT ISSUE DATE
M
R
SITE CODE (OF IMAGING)
M
Date the referrer made the referral request for a
diagnostic imaging test
Date the diagnostic imaging test provider received
the referral request
National Interim Clinical Imaging Procedure
(NICIP) code – see:
http://www.datadictionary.nhs.uk/web_site_content
/supporting_information/clinical_coding/national_int
erim_clinical_imaging_procedure_code_set.asp?s
hownav=1
Date the diagnostic imaging test took place
Date the diagnostic imaging test provider issued
the test report
5-digit site-level code
RIS accession
number
New DD data item: “RADIOLOGICAL ACCESSION NUMBER”
M
Unique record number for the imaging exam
Patient-identifiable data
Patient-identifiable data
Patient-identifiable data
Patient-identifiable data