Pregnancy: Sodium Valproate

(asked on 2nd November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that the Valproate Pregnancy Prevention Programme be given a SNOMED code.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 8th November 2021

In October 2021 NHS Digital received requests to add additional codes to specify 'valproate' in the term. NHS Digital, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and NHS England and NHS Improvement’s sodium valproate programme are working together to support the SNOMED CT coding requirements of the programme.

NHS Digital are currently developing the Valproate Annual Risk Acknowledgement Form and Referral for Valproate Annual Risk Acknowledgement Form and intend to publish them in the SNOMED CT UK Clinical Edition release on 1 December.

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