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📋 What Healthtech-1 codes vs NHSE auto-registration

Written by Vanessa Gouveia

The amount of coded detail on a patient's record makes a real difference - for your QOF, for patient safety, and for how much manual work lands on your team afterwards.

Healthtech-1 captures the full dataset and handles every patient communication for you. Here's exactly what each one captures:

Data point

Healthtech-1
​
~54 items captured and coded

NHSE auto-reg
​
~10 items captured and coded

Ethnicity

✅

✅

Patient is a carer / has a carer

✅

✅

Paid, foster & unpaid carers

✅

✅

Smoking status

✅

✅

Body weight and height

✅

✅

Body mass index (BMI)

✅

❌

Alcohol daily consumption

✅

✅
freetext only

AUDIT-C score

✅

❌

Allergies

✅
consultation note

✅
generic code

Long term conditions

✅
consultation note

✅
generic code

Mental health

✅
consultation note

✅
generic code

Disabilities

✅
consultation note

✅
generic code

Repeat prescriptions

✅
consultation note

❌

Birth country

✅

❌

Interpreter

✅

❌

Summary Care Record (SCR) consent

✅

❌

Flag patients removed from your list

✅

✅
removal code only

Residential coding (students / care homes)

✅

❌

Emergency contacts / relationships

✅

❌

Nominated pharmacy (EPS)

✅

✅
EMIS only

Armed forces

✅

✅
EMIS only

Reasonable adjustments

✅

❌

Accessible formats

✅

❌

Hepatitis C screening offered

✅

❌

Extra data via the HT1 Local Form

Education

✅

❌

Main spoken language

✅

❌

Care / nursing home patient

✅

❌

Sexual orientation

✅

❌

Special circumstances (asylum, homelessness, abuse)

✅

❌

Wider determinants of health

✅

❌

Blood pressure

✅

❌

Pregnancy

✅

❌

Family history

✅

❌

Armed forces - role, enlistment & leaving dates

✅

❌

Preferred contact method

✅

❌

Communication preferences

✅

❌

Patient participation group (PPG)

✅

❌

Vape / e-cigarette use

✅

❌

Religion

✅

❌

Exercise level

✅

❌

HIV test offered / declined

✅

❌

Chlamydia test offered

✅

❌

Firearms licence

✅

❌

Personalised comms & extra actions

Careers advice

✅

❌

Veterans advice

✅

❌

Smoking cessation advice

✅

❌

Welcome text + email

✅

❌

Notify patient of named GP

✅

❌

Hep C at home test

✅

❌

Prompt guardian to book 6–8 week baby check

✅

❌

Prompt guardian to upload red book (8 wks–6 yrs)

✅

❌

Send national data opt-out info

✅

❌

File medication authorisation tasks

✅

EMIS only

❌

File event degrade tasks

✅

EMIS only

❌

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