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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for each financial year the expenditure on capital and revenue on the development of Read codes; how many hospitals are participating in the pilot exercise and what their response has been to date; when he proposes to submit the project for independent evaluation; and if he will make a statement.[27829] Mr. Horam: The cost of developing version 3 of the Read codes is as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Revenue Capital 1992-93 £1.1 million Nil 1993-94 £2.1 million Nil 1994-95 £0.5 million Nil Total £3.7 million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. The nature of the Read terms is that new terms are added regularly through a maintenance process. This aspect of developments costs: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Revenue Capital 1994-95 £0.7 million Nil 1995-96 £0.7 million Nil Total £1.4 million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. The version 3 Read code partnership programme commenced in mid 1995 and involved 14 sites--a further 30 sites have expressed interest in participating in the programme. We are aware of an additional 15 non-partnership sites which are using or about to use version 3 of the Read codes. These assessments in use comprise evaluation. An evaluation beyond this is not planned.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

27829; 276 c608W

Session

1995-96

Subjects

Software Computers Diseases Expenditure NHS Classification schemes

Contains statistics

Yes