Source · Select Committees · Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 3
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Doctors may not be able to rely on patients to remember previous concussions or head...
Conclusion
Doctors may not be able to rely on patients to remember previous concussions or head traumas, especially if these happened at different times playing different sports. They must instead be able to rely on robust information that should be collated on a patient’s records.
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Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
The Government agrees in part with this recommendation. NHSX will continue to work with NHS England, NHS Improvement and NHS Digital to improve data quality and reporting by recommending the creation of codes for concussion resulting from sport. The adoption of standardised clinical coding with SNOMED CT13 allows staff to enter concussion and concussion-related brain injuries as structured data into a patient’s record. Reliably collating this information at a national level is dependent on a number of factors including patient consent to data sharing and the entering of accurate coded information by staff. The Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) is also expected to improve data collection related to head injuries. The Summary Care Record currently allows the sharing of key information from the GP care record and NHS Trusts to other authorised staff – including coded medical diagnoses. The NHSX Shared Care Record programme is building on this by allowing a more dynamic flow of information between partners in a local health and care system – creating a single complete picture of the individual patient to help inform treatments.