Whats this mean in my medical records ??? It's about Fancy Iced Cakes...

[ImitationofBeing]

Just having a nosey at my online medical records.

There's several references about cake.

2 just say Cake
1 says Fancy iced cake.

What are they on about ???

@idontgetpaidenoughforthis

Not sure where my post went but I'll try again:

it is a placeholder for authorisation for patients to receive certain vaccines. A GP has to place an authorIsation on each patients record and it's usually an easily searchable term so surgeries can quickly find out how many vaccines they need.

It can be deleted if you are concerned about it being there

You post is still there. Most people (not the OP) are ignoring it.

I absolutely love this, although the sucked into a jet engine one is better.

@ErrolTheDragon

Is there a code for catching ones nipple between two laundry baskets?

😂 I really really hope there is.

@StealthPolarBear 😂😂😂

@WiseUpJanetWeiss I couldn't see it lol

@Everythinghasturnedtoshit

Think I'd recall injury by a fancy iced cake. Unless it has caused memory loss

I imagine it was traumatic OP. Luckily your GP recorded it so you wouldn't forget.

😂

Maybe in medical notes everyone is a type of cake!

I'm more of a sticky toffee pudding.

Sorry.

Mostly I’m a fruity scone but sometimes I’m a treacle tart!

I love that this medical mystery has been solved by an actual real life GP receptionist who deals with these codes - who is being incredibly helpful, has given the correct answer, and yet nobody is actually listening...

Standard Covid operating procedure....

Standard Mumsnet operating procedure :o

You sure its not your nhs password thing? Ive not rtft but mine is something cottage.
They give you random words as passwords

I was wondering that. I’d tell you mine but then I’d have to shoot you all.

@idontgetpaidenoughforthis

Not RTFT but it is a placeholder for authorisation for patients to receive certain vaccines. A GP has to place an authorIsation on each patients record and it's usually an easily searchable term so surgeries can quickly find out how many vaccines they need. It can be deleted if you are concerned about it being there.

Really?

On an internationally used database with multiple different languages?

And the doc needs to remember which cake refers to rubella, diptheria, tetanus, polio, meningitis b, '6 in one', tuberculosis if in high risk area, etc...

Isn't that a pointless exercise? Docs who are starting need to learn this nonsensical approach and memorise the cakes?

Surely a code for 'polio vaccine placeholder' would be... The totally obvious thing to do?

I find that bizarre.

Obviously that's what's happening as NHS person confirms.

That is the most insanely ridiculous pointless and just wtaf thing I've heard in a very long time.

Like 50% of people on mumsnet I am a qualified physician and can confirm it is code for smelly fanny.

And as well as having to learn that fruit cake with fondant icing = mengitis b. They have no way of knowing from the cake at a glance which dose it is. First, second.

Why not code for eg.
MenB holding 8 weeks
Men B holding 16 weeks

Or something?

@ELOU1111

Like 50% of people on mumsnet I am a qualified physician and can confirm it is code for smelly fanny.

In children? Nice.

@idontgetpaidenoughforthis

Not RTFT but it is a placeholder for authorisation for patients to receive certain vaccines. A GP has to place an authorIsation on each patients record and it's usually an easily searchable term so surgeries can quickly find out how many vaccines they need. It can be deleted if you are concerned about it being there.

Yay so pleased the mystery has been solved!

It appears to be an American coding system, the link further up the thread takes you to some government Web page in the state of Georgia. Absolutely no idea what it means, probably some secret way of describing people that only doctors can read.

@NiceGerbil they probably do have codes for those things already. The reason for these being placeholders is that there was no code on the system for Coronavirus related things. So various practices have chosen innocuous or unusual codes that are unlikely to be used elsewhere as a placeholder. Someone else explained above that their practice was using "sucked into a jet engine".

When the software gets an update, the idea is that they run a mass search and replace all those terms with the correct one so that it makes sense in the future. Or they quite probably never bother because they don't have time and it's out of date and unneeded anyway. If someone has had a jab then getting cleared for that jab is done and dusted, no longer relevant. But it's harmless to have something like cake on their records. Harmless enough not to bother wasting time searching all the records that contain that and replacing them assuming there isn't a mass replace function in the program.

Maybe it's got mixed up with a surgery staff do and everyone's been asked what they're bringing to share........?

"Surely a code for 'polio vaccine placeholder' would be... The totally obvious thing to do?"

How many times do you think the word "flu" or "covid" appears in people's medical records? How many times the work "cake"....

@VaguelyInteresting

I love that this medical mystery has been solved by an actual real life GP receptionist who deals with these codes - who is being incredibly helpful, has given the correct answer, and yet nobody is actually listening...

Standard Covid operating procedure....

😂

I'm actually waiting for someone to start telling me what a dragon I am and what crap job we're doing... 😁

I missed 1 reference which states "Cake Intake"

That...could be pretty dangerous if you have been sucked into a jet engine... !

I am convinced its related to the Covid jabs and administration. I won't be asking to remove it. They've enough to sort out , for example they need to think what to call any following boosters - gateaux, lemon tart, choux bun.