Honorary Secretary Report Evelyn Ong Winter Members’ Meeting 24th January 2019 Oxford Belfry, Thame

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SNOMED CT New coding system to be used across Paediatric Services by 2020 Will be used in parallel with ICD initially All Clinical Systems providers will be mandated by NHS Digital to use SNOMED CT How does that affect you? Coding at point of delivery of care i.e. clinician entered data Better descriptions of clinical situations including tentative diagnoses Opportunity to ensure all surgical procedures coded accurately Can be applied in future for clinical outcomes databases – no secondary data entry! Next steps Evelyn Ong, Alex Lee, Basil Bekdash attended RCPCH Workshop Linked with NHS Digital to validate coding that exists Lists to go out to sub-specialty interest groups to ensure all procedures have applicable codes Achieve a full Paediatric Surgery SNOMED CT dictionary for GBI by 2020.

BAPS Members’ Meetings Previously called “Council” Open to ALL members of BAPS to attend Shortened format. Full GBI and 10 Overseas Council Members have voting rights. Overseas Council Members must be full members of BAPS and are elected by Council.

Upcoming Events Annual International Congress Winter Meeting – Glasgow December 2019 BAPS Oncology Course – Birmingham National Training Days – linked with Congress and Winter Meetings Overseas Skills Courses Paediatric Surgery for the General Surgeon Upcoming Events

Congress 2019 NEW for this year Global Surgery – new subject for abstract submissions REDUCED registration fees! Don’t miss the Early Bird Rates ending 30th April 2019 Postgraduate courses: Oncology – Mark Powis Colorectal – Ian Sugarman Education Symposium including Trainees’ Free Papers New Consultants’ Club Full day Nurses Symposium on Tuesday Dragon’s Den Transitional Care Symposium Multicentre Research Network Complex Upper GI Paediatric Surgery Network

Nominations sought President of BAPS – July 2020 Honorary Secretary of BAPS – April 2020 Email honsec@baps.org.uk for job descriptions. To apply please send a 300 word personal statement, copy of your CV and a supporting statement from a consultant member of BAPS. Deadline for nominations 5pm Monday 25 March 2019