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Clinical Coding

We recognise that high quality data is crucial for informing strategic and local decisions for capacity and service planning as well as understanding clinical performance and outcomes. Equally, accurate payment made under National Tariff Payment System is dependent upon high quality data and high-quality data is dependent upon highly skilled clinical coders and a robust programme of clinical coding audit.

Clinical coding is a highly specialised area requiring a highly trained and experienced workforce. We can help you build your team with our nationally recognised audit and training service.

What we offer:

  • Clinical Coding training: We provide nationally accredited clinical coding training for our host Trust and across the Yorkshire region hosted at one of our sites or alternatively remotely. We can train NHS and third sector organisations.
  • Clinical Coding audit: Our experienced audit team provide Clinical Coding Audit services to hospital trusts. We can provide professional Clinical Coding Audit for NHS and third sector organisations.

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Not sure which services you require? Our team is here to help. We reflect NHS values of professionalism, service and accessibility. We are here to explain options, provide solutions and serve diverse clients. You’re guaranteed a friendly welcome, expert advice and ongoing support. Get in touch for more details.

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Key Benefits

Your Coding team will be up to date with the most recent coding rules and conventions, i.e. national standards.

CCG’s will be reassured that the Trust has robust coded data.

Provision of increased Clinical Coding networking within the region.


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Professional Services

Within Professional Services we provide qualified project and programme management resource as well as a dedicated Education, Training and Development team offering a range of clinical system training courses plus Microsoft Office Specialist learning and exams. We also offer consultancy and development services aimed at automating business processes to generate efficiencies and improve patient care within the NHS.

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What is clinical coding?

  • Clinical governance: Clinical audits, risk analysis and mortality data.
  • Benchmarking: Reducing variations, model hospital, HED, Dr Foster, service line reporting.
  • Quality improvement: Improving patient pathways, clinical research, treatment effectiveness.
  • Commissioning: Casemix planning, the development of new services.
  • Epidemiology: Health trends, aetiological studies, clinical indicators.
  • Financial flows: National tariff income and cost analysis.

High quality clinical coding audits and training will help to: 

  • Provide financial protection by identifying potential omissions and their causes. 
  • Avert challenges by detecting and managing over coding. 
  • Confirm compliance with national standards requirements. 
  • Drive quality improvement. 
  • Measure performance against the Data Security and Protection Toolkit and the Cyber Assessment Framework (DSPT CAF) 

The NHSPS supports the way NHS organisations are funded. Acute trusts are ‘paid’ for the number and complexity of patient encounters, so it is crucial data submitted to the payment scheme is timely and accurate. 

 


Clinical coding courses

Our nationally accredited clinical coding training covers: 

  • Clinical coding standards for those entering the profession. 
  • Clinical coding refreshers, which every clinical coder has to complete every three years. 
  • National Clinical Coding Qualification (NCCQ) revision workshops for clinical coders seeking to become Accredited Clinical Coders (ACC). 

We can also provide training to meet DPST (Data Security and Protection Toolkit) CAF  (Cyber Assessment Framework) requirement E4.b Clinical Coding.  

Get in touch with us to discuss your clinical coding training needs with our vastly experienced clinical coding team. 

 


Clinical coding audits

We conduct independent clinical coding audits for our host trust, other NHS health trusts, third sector organisations and healthcare agencies. 

Audits can be done internally or externally, by speciality, for individual coders or for whole organisations, as part of the DPST CAF framework, or for quality assurance. 

 

Reach out today

We are quite unique in the number of trainers and auditors among our ranks, so if your trust or organisation needs a training and/or auditing resource, or you know someone who needs training, then please get in touch with us.

 

This is what some of the coders we have trained have had to say…

“(The) trainer is encouraging and supportive, knows the stuff and explains it well.” 
“I definitely noticed areas in my coding which could be improved.” 
“Kept all the group engaged and made the course interesting.” 
“Very knowledgeable with a lot of patience.” 

 

Bespoke Service

In addition to our core services of digital health solutions, we offer bespoke services and can tailor our solutions to each customers’ needs. We can combine a number of services into a package, discuss other service solutions that your organisation may benefit from, including new innovations and collaborative projects. Contact us to discuss your requirements.

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“THIS have provided Spectrum Community Health with quality service for over 10 years. They consistently strive to meet our IT needs and digital ambitions in a supportive partnership approach.”

Sharon Hardcastle
Director of Finance, Spectrum Community Health CIC

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Head of Digital, Spectrum Community Health CIC

“Really want to thank Daniel P for all his help, he was really patient and helpful. Clearly communicated what he was doing and that he would contact me back to test that things were working.”

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"Problem quickly resolved and gave information about how to resolve in the future.”

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Who we work with

Supporting organisations throughout the UK

Across the UK, we work closely with NHS and healthcare organisations in many different locations. From our roots in Yorkshire, we support clients across England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

Examples of our NHS clients include London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital and hospital trusts in Southampton, Oxford, Cambridge, Nottingham, Derby, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Middlesbrough, North Tees & Hartlepool, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Edinburgh, Lanarkshire and Glasgow.

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