Dear all,
The Production release of the July 2019 SNOMED CT® General Practitioner/Family Practitioner (GP/FP) Reference Sets package is now available, from the MLDS distribution site.
This package may be distributed to Affiliate Licensees and third parties at any time, within the relevant licensing restrictions. The Production release of the SNOMED CT® General Practitioner/Family Practitioner (GP/FP) Reference Sets package is dependent upon, and should therefore be consumed in conjunction with the July 2019 SNOMED CT® International Edition.
All files distributed are available from the “July 2019 v1.0” version in the “SNOMED CT GP/FP Refset package - SNOMED International” project, which can be found on the “SNOMED Releases” page in MLDS, accessed here:
https://mlds.ihtsdotools.org/#/ihtsdoReleases
The SNOMED CT® GP/FP Reference Sets package contains SNOMED CT files in Release Format 2 (RF2) only, distributed in a zipped file archive:
- SnomedCT_GPFP_PRODUCTION_20191030T120000Z.zip
The Release Notes have been separated from the release package, and so can be downloaded as a distinct pdf file from the same MLDS release version:
- doc_SnomedCT-GPFP-Production-ReleaseNotes_Current-en-US_INT_20190731.pdf
The Release Notes can also be accessed online from the following page:
Those Members using MLDS as their distribution site will find that their affiliates have access to the new release automatically.
Please note: SNOMED International have undertaken a review of a number of the derivative products over the past two years (including the GP/FP refset and the map to ICPC-2), in order to gather updated requirements and evidence of usage. This has included reaching out to Members, clinical groups, other stakeholders as well as those who have downloaded either the GP/FP refset or the map to ICPC-2, and we were unable to find anyone who is using the SNOMED CT to ICPC-2 map. In addition, in discussions with WONCA, they have confirmed that ICPC-2 is no longer being maintained by them as they are now focusing on producing and releasing ICPC-3. They see no use case for maintaining the current mapping and recommended that the January 2019 release should be the last one containing ICPC-2 updates.
On the basis of these discussions and investigations, a decision was taken jointly with Wonca to deprecate the map. SNOMED International have therefore inactivated all ICPC-2 map records in the current release package, ceased publishing the ICPC-2 release notes, and removed references to ICPC-2 in package naming conventions.
If you have any questions about the July 2019 SNOMED CT® GP/FP Reference Sets package, or have difficulties downloading the files from the distribution site, please contact SNOMED International at support@snomed.org with “July 2019 SNOMED CT® GP/FP Reference Sets package release question” in the subject line.
Kind regards,
Andrew Atkinson | Release Manager