Elective Surgery - coding of planned procedures. How is this currently being done in public hospitals in New Zealand?

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For planned elective surgical procedures, what national data reporting requirements are there for names of operations?

For those hospitals who have an electronic elective surgical booking form for the surgeon to fill out when there is a Decision to Treat, do you get the surgeons to select from a structured data list of operation titles so it can be directly saved with these in the Patient Administration System to track the waiting list?

In Southern we are using ICD10 codes when the procedure is entered on our waiting list in SIPICS, and I believe this is the case for the South Island as a whole. Is anyone using SNOMED codes for this instead?

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Northern - still using ACHI here. Also v keen to see if anyone is using SNOMED for this in the country at the point of where the surgeon enters the booking. Even if just one spec (and even if then translating to ACHI for external reporting). I seem to recall there was a program of curating SNOMED terminology lists for different surgical specs. Have not looked into this for some years, so readily confess near-total ignorance re progress if any.