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| Briefing note - Update of Case Significance of Descriptions for Drug Related Content | Jul 28, 2025 | Please complete the following actions: Review the content Provide your feedback Circulate as necessary | Sep 30, 2025 | Awaiting feedback | CLOSED
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| Briefing Note Patch Strength New Model | May 22, 2025 | For information only | For information only | CLOSED
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| Proposed Changes to Hierarchy 198609003|Complication of pregnancy, childbirth and/or puerperium (disorder)| | May 14, 2025 | Please complete the following actions: Review the content Provide your feedback Circulate as necessary | Jun 18, 2025 | Closed for feedback | CLCLOSEDOSED |
| Inactivate Procedure carried out | May 14, 2025 | None | The Briefing note feedback highlights issues for implementers and end users:
So after consideration, SNOMED International will refrain from pursuing inactivation of these concepts. Instead, concepts will be modeled as best as possible and will remain within the terminology. The Pre-Coordination Pattern will remain as-is with no further content will be accepted in this area. | CLOSED | |
| Terminology Services Course Summary | May 1, 2025 | Please complete the following actions: Circulate as necessary | N/A | Summary provided regarding plans for the Terminology Services Course and Certification Exam as agreed at ELAG. | CLOSED |
| Summary of Community Consultation on the Proposal to Increase Description Length Limits | Mar 26, 2025 | Please complete the following actions: Review the content Approve the proposed Transition date of 1st July 2026 | Apr 30, 2025 | Consultation complete Next steps and Transition date proposed. | OPEN |
| Planned Deprecation of the SNOMED CT - ICD-O version 3.1 Morphological and Topography Maps | Mar 25, 2025 | Review the content Provide your feedback Circulate as necessary | Apr 30, 2025 | Awaiting feedback | CLOSED |
| Inactivation impact of initial and follow-up assessments | Mar 20, 2025 | None | Inactivations to be released in 1 July 2025 | CLOSED | |
| Inactivation of Active Duplicate Descriptions in the Same Hierarchy | Feb 6, 2025 | Please complete the following actions: Review the proposed changes Provide your feedback Circulate as necessary | Mar 31, 2025 | Closed for feedback | CLOSED |
| Concept Non Current Indicators - Notice of Deprecation | Dec 17, 2024 Revised Feb 5, 2025 | Please complete the following actions:
| Jan 10, 2025 At this date the intention is to distribute this notice more widely. Additional feedback can be provided until 30 May 2025. | Awaiting Feedback | CLOSED |
| Member Forum Content development priorities 2025 | Jan 27, 2025 | Please complete the following actions: Review the content Provide your feedback Circulate as necessary | Feb 15, 2025 | Awaiting feedback | CLOSED |
| Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) | Oct 2, 2024 | For information only | Oct 30, 2024 | November 1st, 2024 | CLOSED |
| Inactivation of Sex-specific/ Sex-qualified Procedure concepts. | Oct 2, 2024 | Please complete the following actions: Review the content Provide your feedback Circulate as necessary |
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| Inactivation of the Navigational Concept hierarchy | Apr 1, 2024 | No action required. | Jun 30, 2024 | The Navigational concept hierarchy will be inactivated without replacement (aside from the exceptions noted in the Briefing note) in the 1 July 2025 release. | CLOSED |
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