What are the Read Codes?

✍ Scribed by NICK BOOTH NHS

• Book ID: 104462434
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 456 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1471-1834
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2532.1994.1130177.x

✦ Synopsis

The Read Codes were initially developed by a general practitioner, Dr James Read from Loughborough, in the early 1980s and rapidly gained acceptance by general practitioners as a popular and useful mechanism for storing structured information about patients in individual, patient‐based records, which were beginning to become popular in a few general practices at the time. This short article aims to explain the past and future development of the coding system in the National Health Service as a whole.