Health informatics

Use the links below for more information:

CSP Health Informatics Advisory Group

The purpose of the Advisory Group is to facilitate communication channels in order to ensure that members are kept informed of and involved in the development of the information for health agenda and to develop a medium and long-term information and communications strategy for the CSP.

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Clinical terms

For more information about current developments in clinical terms please refer to SNOMED section on the NHS Information Authority's website.

SNOMED Clinical Terms is the result of combining two standard clinical vocabularies, Clinical Terms Version 3 (The Read Codes) and SNOMED RT, following a 3 year collaboration between the NHS Information Authority (NHS IA) and the College of American Pathologists (CAP).

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Garner report

The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) and the College of Occupational Therapists (COT) collaborated to commission an information management project which ran between October 1998 to April 1999. The project in turn led to the publication of a report named after it's author Ruth Garner. The report identified information management as central to the professions for their clinical practice and for legal, management and academic purposes. It brought together policy context, details about national programmes and an overview of information management needs of both physiotherapists and occupational therapists. The report contained 7 key recommendations:

  1. Formalise links with the NHS Information Authority
  2. Invest in a centre of excellence for the professions allied to medicine
  3. Make information management more meaningful
  4. Undertake further work on record structures
  5. Provide support, information and advice to members about the development of the Electronic Patient Record (EPR)
  6. Develope an information literate, competent and confident workforce
  7. Support the National Electronic library for Health (NeLH).

Please note that the Garner Report is no longer available from the CSP.

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Patient records

For further information about patient records, see CSP Information Paper PA47. Information in this publication covers:

  • Patient confidentiality
  • Security
  • the Human Rights Act
  • the Data Protection Act
  • Ownership
  • Use of computer-generated records
  • Disposal of paper records
  • Access to Health Records
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • Acts of Parliament
For additional information, please also see the CSP 'Core Standards of Physiotherapy Practice 2005'.
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