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DoH_Terms

This information was last updated on 25/06/2008, and is revision number 1.

Type

Vocabulary

Title

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

Current status

Live

Location

http://multites.net/dhThesaurus/new/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/

Scope

Department of Health

Custodian

Department of Health

Phil Defriez

Website Publishing Manager

Development

Annual update

License

Crown copyright. Freely available for re-use

Conforms

: BS 8723, ISO 2788

How Implemented

: 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.