Guidance on Dementia Coding

A team of GPs working to improve dementia care in London, with support from specialist experts, has put together this GP dementia coding guideline.

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The guideline propose the use of four codes in primary care: Eu00, Eu002, Eu01 and Eu02z. The list below matches ICD10 codes to recognised general practice dementia READ codes.

ICD Description Read
F00 Dementia in Alzheimer’s disease Eu00
F00.2 Dementia in Alzheimer’s disease, atypical or mixed type (“Mixed Dementia”) Eu002
F01 Vascular dementia Eu01
F03 Unspecified dementia Eu02z

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