National Clinical Terminology Service Registration Terms
User Registration
Individual
Choose this option if you are an individual and wish to use the NCTS resources for your own personal use, or you are a member of an Organisation that has already registered to use the NCTS.
Organisation
Choose this option if you are an individual and wish to use the NCTS resources for your own personal use, or you are a member of an Organisation that has already registered to use the NCTS.
By registering to access and/or download the Registration Content, you agree to be bound by the Registration Terms outlined below. All registered users will be required to answer a short Statement of Usage survey annually each June as a condition of continued access to the Registration Content.
These are the terms (Registration Terms) under which users can register on the National Clinical Terminology Service (NCTS) website found at www.healthterminologies.gov.au (Website) to access and download certain terminology products and tools (Registration Content). By registering to access and/or download the Registration Content, you agree to be bound by these Registration Terms. The Australian Digital Health Agency (the Agency) may amend these Registration Terms from time to time and without notice to you. If you continue to access the Registration Content you are deemed to have accepted the Registration Terms, as amended.
Other parts of the Website may have specific terms and conditions of use which apply in addition to these Registration Terms, and by accessing those parts of the Website, you also agree to those additional terms and conditions of use.
Individual
By registering to access and/or download the Registration Content, you will be able to access and/or download (where applicable) the Registration Content which contains Agency developed products and third party developed products from time to time, including:
the Australian National Terminology release comprising the International Release of SNOMED CT® 1 together with the Australian national extensions (e.g. SNOMED CT AU) and any Australian national derivatives (e.g. Australian Medicines Terminology); some third party terminology products licensed to the Agency by third parties;
Website content migration
The content of the Health Terminologies website is progressively being migrated to parts of digitalhealth.gov.au. See homepage for more details.
The core Concept, Description and Relationship files have been updated to include the January 2024 International SNOMED CT Release.
Consequently, all reference sets provided in the previous release have been updated accordingly. Specific content developments and improvements have been inherited from the January 2024 SNOMED CT International Release.
If you have any questions or concerns feel free to contact us by emailing help@digitalhealth.gov.au.