BSIR NVR Engagement Survey
- We are conducting a national survey primarily focused on improving interventional radiology engagement with the NVR, with input also welcomed from others involved in data entry for endovascular procedures, including vascular surgeons, anaesthetists, and administrative teams.
- This initiative forms part of our ongoing work to update the NVR reports and datasets. The aim is to make contributing to the NVR easier and more clinically useful. Findings from this survey will help guide practical changes that we hope will improve the relevance of NVR data for audit, benchmarking, and service improvement in endovascular practice, as well as increase case ascertainment for endovascular procedures.
- This survey has also been circulated to the British Society of Interventional Radiology membership to ensure strong representation from the interventional radiology community.
- We would be very grateful for your participation.
OPCS codes for aortic procedures on the NVR
- We have been analysing the aortic data from 2025 recently and have noticed a number of procedures where the primary OPCS code entered on the NVR is not a primary procedure code (one starting with L).
- The new NVR IT system allows you to enter any code in any of the NVR OPCS code fields, which makes it more difficult to analyse. In some cases, it is impossible for us to determine the procedure performed.
- We have asked NEC to modify these fields so they are more restrictive.
- In the meantime, please use an OPCS code starting with L in the primary OPCS field on the NVR.
- For a primary aortic procedure, the code should start with L18 or L19 for an open repair and L27 or L28 for an endovascular repair (e.g. L194 or L271)