NosoNotes Lite
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Paste a direct URL to a signed JSON pack file (e.g. a SharePoint or intranet link). The file must be accessible from this device. One file per URL — repeat for multiple packs.
Choose the folder containing your signed JSON guidance pack files. The tool will remember this folder so you only need to do this once. All files load locally — nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Requires Chrome or Edge. You'll be asked to grant folder access — this is a browser security requirement.
Enter a condition, code or keyword — results appear as you type
A browser-based search across the ICD-10 & OPCS-4 National Clinical Coding Standards and the OPCS-4 Supplementary Information, surfacing the standard that governs a topic or code — plus your own personal coder notes.
All processing is client-side — it makes no network calls and nothing leaves the browser. Run it as a local HTML file for fully offline use, or host it as a website for instant access; it behaves the same either way. It is the lightweight web-app member of the NosoNotes family; the browser extension is the full NosoNotes that overlays the NHS Classifications Browser.
Click 📂 Select folder… and choose the folder that holds your signed JSON packs and your own copies of the standards documents.
Results appear as you type — no submit button. Words and codes become coloured chips:
Word-start matching: a term matches from the start of a word, so ear matches ear / ears / earache but not “appearance” or “near”. Two-letter abbreviations (MI, PE, DM…) match whole-word only, while word stems still match longer forms — e.g. arthro matches “arthroplasty”.
Spelling: British and American spellings are matched automatically (tumour/tumor, haemorrhage/hemorrhage), so either finds the same results. If a word matches nothing at all — a typo like diabtes — a did you mean suggestion appears under the search offering the closest word that actually exists in your loaded standards; click it to correct the term and re-search. Use more options to see a fuller list of near spellings for each term.
Recent searches: when the search box is empty, your last few queries this session appear as Recent pills beneath it — click one to run it again. They are held in memory only and clear when you reload.
Keyboard: the search and filter bars stay pinned at the top as results scroll. Press ↓ from the search box to jump into the results, then ↑/↓ to move between cards and Enter to open one at the standard. ↑ from the first card, or Esc, returns you to the search box.
Click a committed chip (or focus it and press P) to cycle it through three states:
Toggle any band in the legend below the search bar. If more than 200 results match, the top 200 are shown — add a term or code to narrow.
A collapsed navy box below the results: “N matches in the WHO ICD-11 to 10 crossmap”. It searches WHO’s own published ICD-11 ↔ ICD-10 mapping tables (concept titles plus WHO’s index terms) and shows the ICD-10 code(s) WHO maps each matching concept to. It is findability, not guidance — a starting point when ICD-10 dead-ends, never an assertion that a code is correct. Verify in the classifications and apply all UK codes and standards.
Loading it: put ICD11TrailIndex.json in your content folder alongside the packs. It is detected by its content type, not its filename, and — exactly like the packs — it is signed and verified before it loads. An unsigned or tampered crossmap is refused with a named banner. It remains WHO reference data surfaced as-is (CC BY-ND 3.0 IGO): signed for integrity, still findability rather than guidance. A navy ✓ ICD-11 to 10 pill on the Crossmaps row shows it is loaded and toggles it; the box is unavailable only in OPCS-only mode (OPCS on, ICD-10 off).
A collapsed blue box below the results, in OPCS-4 blue because this is a procedure-side aid. It merges up to three sources into one list and badges every row with where it came from, so you can always see whose position you are reading. Like the ICD-11 map it is findability, not guidance — it never asserts that a code is correct.
Loading it: put the chemotherapy map files in your content folder. They are detected by content type rather than filename, so any combination of the three merges — and each is signed and verified like the packs. A blue ✓ Chemotherapy pill on the Crossmaps row shows it is loaded and toggles it. It is tied to OPCS-4 the way the ICD-11 map is tied to ICD-10: switch OPCS-4 off and this box goes with it.
When you search, a gold bar appears above the results: General Classification — Rules, Conventions & General Coding Standards. It is an always-available list of the structural standards (the code-less Rules, Conventions and GCS), so they are one click away whatever you searched. They also still appear in the result bands when your terms match.
When you search a code that appears on the Mandatory Comorbidity or Charlson lists, a gold alert banner appears above the results. It shows which of your codes matched and an “N matched of M” count. Appendix 1 opens at its page in your document; Charlson offers a link to the external SHMI source.
Click the ✎ button (top right) to open the notes panel. Add a note with a title, classification, note text, associated codes and keywords. Your notes surface in the results — ranked last within their match band (honest ranking — your note never outranks a stronger standards match) — whenever they are relevant, with an orange coder note tag. Toggle them in results with the orange Coder Notes pill.
Notes live only in this browser. Export / Import use the NosoNotes format, so a notes file moves freely between NosoNotes Lite and the NosoNotes extension.
The ⚙ button opens Settings: search layers (turn Title, Keywords or Codes matching on/off — references are always searched), coder-note export / import / delete-all, and About with licensing and attribution.
Click a result to open it below the list. For National standards the viewer opens your document — either an HTML or a PDF copy of the standards — at the correct page (Document view). The Formatted button shows a summary instead:
Close the viewer via its header bar, Esc, or a new search.
NosoNotes Lite is client-side: it runs entirely in your browser, makes no network requests, and uploads nothing — whether opened as a local file (fully offline) or hosted as a website. Folder access is a browser permission, not an upload.
The National Clinical Coding Standards (ICD-10 and OPCS-4) and OPCS-4 Supplementary Information are © Crown copyright, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0; the pack files are derivative works of NHS England standards, presented in a restructured, searchable form. This is an independent project — not produced, sponsored or endorsed by NHS England or the Terminology and Classifications Delivery Service; the original documents on the NHS England website remain the authoritative source. No WHO ICD-10 or TRUD OPCS-4 code-description datasets are bundled.
What a signed pack means: a valid signature confirms only that the pack has not been modified since signing and was authorised by the named source. It is not a review or endorsement of the clinical content. Always apply your own professional judgement.