The coding workstream focuses on the accuracy of coding and supports trusts to create specialty-specific methodology to improve the accuracy of coding.  A key aim is to increase collaboration between clinical teams and coders by including coders in multidisciplinary team meetings where appropriate.

The workstream works closely with clinical associations, helping to identify and share good practice among coding departments and providing materials to support coding service provision.

The current focus of the GIRFT clinical coding project is to advise on how the GIRFT project uses and reports on clinical coding, as well as supporting the design of clinical activity groups for consultant level reporting in the National Clinical Improvement Programme (NCIP).