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Emergency care data set (ECDS) webinars
NHS Digital hosts Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) webinars covering all aspects of the ECDS. Copies of past webinars and slides are available to download, together with the details of the next webinar and how to register.
20 October 2020 webinar
Earlier 2020 webinars
2019 webinars
19 March 2019
This webinar covered ECDS mappings and the corrigendum.
Read the transcript of the webinar.
2018 webinars
7 November 2018
This webinar was a general ECDS question and answer session.
26 September 2018
This webinar focused on the October 2018 release of the ECDS and planned November ISN changes.
10 July 2018
This webinar covered data quality assurance, SUS and HES.
As discussed on the webinar the streaming guidance issued by NHS Improvement (NHSI) is also available. NHS Digital is liaising with NHSI on developing further streaming guidance specific to ECDS.
12 June 2018
This webinar covered: starting a local collection, local quality assurance and Message Exchange for Social Care and Health (MESH).
17 May 2018 Webinar 6 for type 3 and 4 emergency departments
The webinar focused on: attendance, streaming, referrals and discharge.
24 April 2018 - Webinar 5 for type 3 and 4 emergency departments
This webinar focused on: Adastra systems.
11 April 2018 - Webinar 4 for type 3 and 4 emergency departments
This webinar focused on: An introduction to the ECDS, Clerical data items, Clinical data items (Acuity, Chief Complaint, Diagnosis & the Diagnosis Qualifier), Clinician details, Injury and Information Sharing for Tackling Violence (ISTV), Investigations and Treatments.
10 April 2018 - ECDS Phase 1 show and tell webinar
This webinar focused on updates about GP letter, streaming / counting and UTC and Type 3 ED definitions, April updates to SNOMED subsets and the planned ECDS Information Standard uplift.
15 March 2018 - Webinar 3 for type 3 and 4 emergency departments
This webinar focused on implementation of ECDS in TPP’s SystmOne product.
7 March 2018 - ECDS phase 1 show and tell webinar
This webinar covers the case studies, coding mental health issues and self-harm, brief recap, data quality including CQUIN, duplication of records, ECDS development and maintenance, general question and and session.
27 February 2018 - Webinar 2 for type 3 and 4 emergency departments
This webinar covers implementation of automated daily submissions at a phase 1 site; configuration and data collection; getting ready for go-live; transition process for CDS010 to CDS011 (ECDS).
2017 webinars
Copies of the slides and webinars held in 2017 are available from our archive.
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