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Change description : 2026-02-10 10:14:00: Removed documents: ‘HIV-PrEP activity coding guidance: transitioning from SHHAPT codes’ and ‘HIV-PrEP activity coding guidance: Appendix 1 flowchart text description’. Updated ‘GUMCAD: clinical coding guidance’, including adding new codes and a flowchart with an accessible text description. [Guidance and regulation]

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Guidance

GUMCAD: clinical coding guidance

Guidance for clinical staff in specialist and non-specialist services commissioned to provide sexual health services in England.

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UK Health Security Agency
Published
23 September 2010
Last updated
1031 FebruaryJuly 20262025 — See all updates

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GUMCAD: clinical coding guidance

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GUMCAD: minimum reporting guidance for online services

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HIV-PrEP activity coding guidance: transitioning from SHHAPT codes

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HIV-PrEP activity coding guidance: Appendix 1 flowchart text description

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GUMCAD: sample data extract

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GUMCAD: sexual health and HIV activity property type (SHHAPT) code look-up and summary of definitions

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GUMCAD: Read Codes V2 and CTV3

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GUMCAD is the mandatory surveillance system for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and collects data on STI tests, diagnoses and services from all commissioned sexual health services in England.

These documents provide detailed guidance to facilitate the recording and reporting of GUMCAD data in England for frontline staff of:

  • commissioned specialist (level 3) sexual health services (SHS)
  • commissioned non-specialist (level 2) SHS

It includes GUMCAD minimum reporting guidance for online services, HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) activity coding guidance and sexual health and HIV activity property types (SHHAPT) codes for the recording and reporting of GUMCAD data.

Please note that all NHS healthcare providers in England must now use SNOMED CT for capturing clinical terms within electronic patient record systems.

UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) will continue to accept SHHAPT and Read Codes in GUMCAD extracts until service providers complete the implementation of SNOMED CT. Both SHHAPT and Read codes will be retired once all services are reporting SNOMED CT codes.

Updates to this page

Published 23 September 2010
Last updated 1031 FebruaryJuly 20262025 + show all updates

  1. Removed documents: 'HIV-PrEP activity coding guidance: transitioning from SHHAPT codes' and 'HIV-PrEP activity coding guidance: Appendix 1 flowchart text description'. Updated 'GUMCAD: clinical coding guidance', including adding new codes and a flowchart with an accessible text description.

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Update history

2026-02-10 10:14
Removed documents: ‘HIV-PrEP activity coding guidance: transitioning from SHHAPT codes’ and ‘HIV-PrEP activity coding guidance: Appendix 1 flowchart text description’. Updated ‘GUMCAD: clinical coding guidance’, including adding new codes and a flowchart with an accessible text description.

2025-07-31 12:30
Updated ‘GUMCAD: clinical coding guidance’ and GUMCAD SHHAPT Code Look-up. Added ‘GUMCAD: minimum reporting guidance for online services’.