Final Orthopaedic Surgery ELECTIVE Procedure OPCS codes SC

PH3420 / 8448

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Jan 26, 2026

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  1. Overview

    Codelist ID
    opensafely/final-orthopaedic-surgery-elective-procedure-opcs-codes-sc
    Version ID
    18f3383e
    Coding System
    OPCS4 codes
    Collections
    OpenCodelistPhenotype Library
    Tags
    No data

  2. Definition

    This codelist was taken from OpenCodelists, created by OpenSAFELY. We recommend viewing this Phenotype on the OpenCodelist website to view the most recent version.

    OPCS-4 codes for all ELECTIVE, or non-emergency, orthopaedic procedures.

    © University of Oxford for the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science 2025. This work may be copied freely for non-commercial research and study.

  3. Methodology

    Non-emergency procedures defined according to the Royal College of Surgeons surgical prioritisation guidelines. This list contains all procedures which were deemed to fall in category 2, 3 and 4.

  4. References

    Source Reference

    https://www.opencodelists.org/codelist/opensafely/final-orthopaedic-surgery-elective-procedure-opcs-codes-sc/18f3383e

  5. Clinical Codelist

  6. API

    To Export Phenotype Details:

    FormatAPI
    JSON site_root/api/v1/phenotypes/PH3420/version/8448/detail/?format=json
    R Package

    # Download here

    library(ConceptLibraryClient)


    # Connect to API

    client = ConceptLibraryClient::Connection$new(public=TRUE)


    # Get details of Phenotype

    phenotype_details = client$phenotypes$get_detail(
     'PH3420',
     version_id=8448
    )

    Py Package

    # Download here

    from pyconceptlibraryclient import Client


    # Connect to API

    client = Client(public=True)


    # Get details of Phenotype

    phenotype_detail = client.phenotypes.get_detail(
     'PH3420',
     version_id=8448
    )

    To Export Phenotype Code List:

    FormatAPI
    JSON site_root/api/v1/phenotypes/PH3420/version/8448/export/codes/?format=json
    R Package

    # Download here

    library(ConceptLibraryClient)


    # Connect to API

    client = ConceptLibraryClient::Connection$new(public=TRUE)


    # Get codelist of Phenotype

    phenotype_codelist = client$phenotypes$get_codelist(
     'PH3420',
     version_id=8448
    )

    Py Package

    # Download here

    from pyconceptlibraryclient import Client


    # Connect to API

    client = Client(public=True)


    # Get codelist of Phenotype

    phenotype_codelist = client.phenotypes.get_codelist(
     'PH3420',
     version_id=8448
    )

  7. Version History