Type
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Vocabulary |
Title
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Department of Health thesaurus of health and social care terms |
Description
|
Controlled vocabulary for health and social care management |
Purpose
|
|
To support retrieval in internal and external Departmental information systems
|
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Current status
|
Live |
Location
|
http://multites.net/dhThesaurus/new/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/ |
Scope
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Department of Health |
Custodian
|
|
Department of Health
Phil Defriez
Website Publishing Manager
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Development
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Annual update |
License
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Crown copyright. Freely available for re-use |
Conforms
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: BS 8723, ISO 2788 |
How Implemented
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: Used in the library database available internally and through online hosts. Also a high level taxonomy, derived from the thesaurus, is used on the DH website, intranet and Business directory. Both the thesaurus and taxonomy are used by NHS and other healthcare libraries. |