Seventy-second World Health Assembly (WHA72) opened Monday, 20 May 2019

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Update: Draft resolution A72/29 Add.1 (ICD-11) passed without amendments

Item 12.7 Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases was transferred from the Tenth meeting of Committee A to the Sixth meeting of Committee B, for consideration on Saturday 25 May. Item 12.7 was placed as the second agenda item.

Daily Journal N° 6: Programme of meetings for Saturday, 25 May 2019

Following statements from around 30 Member States reps and 1 Non-State actor (IOGT International), and a response from the Secretariat, the draft resolution to adopt the Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases was passed, with no amendments, at 10:20 Geneva time.

After the meeting has closed, a webcast of the meeting will be available for 3 months (Select Tab for Committee B; Select Sixth meeting of Committee B, 25/05/2019 9:00-).

A Draft report of the Sixth meeting of Committee B will be available in the next day or two on the WHA72 Documents page and I shall post a copy at the top of this post.

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The Seventy-second World Health Assembly (WHA72) opened this morning, in Geneva. This year’s Assembly runs from Monday 20 — Tuesday 28 May.

WHA72 website and Documents page

Daily live webcasts

Official Twitter hashtag: #WHA72

“The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of WHO. It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board. The main functions of the World Health Assembly are to determine the policies of the Organization, appoint the Director-General, supervise financial policies, and review and approve the proposed programme budget. The Health Assembly is held annually in Geneva, Switzerland.”

 

A Daily Journal is posted each morning (links for the Daily Journals are on the left of the WHA72 website and Documents page).

Daily Journal N° 1 | Programme of meetings for Monday, 20 May 2019

Daily Journal N° 2 | Programme of meetings for Tuesday, 21 May 2019

Daily Journal N° 3 | Programme of meetings for Wednesday 22 May 2019

Daily Journal N° 4 | Programme of meetings for Thursday, 23 May 2019

Daily Journal N° 5 | Programme of meetings for Friday, 24 May 2019

Daily Journal N° 6 | Programme of meetings for Saturday, 25 May 2019

Daily Journal N° 7 | Programme of meetings for Monday, 27 May 2019

Daily Journal N° 8 | Programme of meetings for Tuesday, 28 May 2019

 

Presentation of ICD-11 MMS for WHA adoption

The Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases is listed as Item 12.7 under Item 12 Other technical matters and is the purview of Committee A.

Item 12.7 is currently expected to be reached on Saturday, 25 May.

Note: Item 12.7 is now 3rd item on Committee A Agenda for Saturday, 25 May. 

Extract Page 5, Daily Journal N° 5:

Live streaming of the Tenth Meeting of Committee A should be available via the webcast page on Saturday 25 May from 9:00 Geneva time. I shall be watching the segment for Item 12.7 when this is reached and will report on any significant discussions, decisions or amendments to the Draft Resolution recommending adoption of the ICD-11 MMS.

(Webcasts for Plenary, Committee A and Committee B meetings will be available for 3 months.)

 

The two key documents for Item 12.7 Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases are:

A72/29 
Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases
Report by the Director-General

and

A72/29 Add.1
Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases
Draft Resolution

 

Draft resolution for consideration by Committee A:

Page 1:

Page 2:

The 72nd Assembly closes on Tuesday, 28 May. Finalization of Committee A resolutions and reports is scheduled for the final day:

 

There are in the region of 55,000 codes in the Eleventh Edition of ICD compared with around 14,400 in ICD-10.

It is anticipated that some Member States and other bodies may continue to raise concerns over specific controversial additions, for example, the inclusion of Gaming disorder. There have also been statements of concern lodged by some Member States regarding the proposed timelines for adoption of ICD-11 and transitional arrangements.

I will update with any significant discussions or amendments to the draft resolution as it currently stands and will post the finalized reports and ICD-11 resolution, when these become available.

 

The Blue ICD-11 MMS platform:

The WHO released a stable version of the ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics (ICD-11 MMS) in June 2018 as a pre-implementation version to enable Member States to begin the process of evaluation, consultations, training, translations and preparing for eventual transition to the new edition.

This initial release was replaced with an updated release in December 2018. The December 2018 version was replaced by a further stable release, in April 2019.

The current release is dated Version : 04 / 2019: https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en

It is unclear whether Version : 04 / 2019 is the version being recommended for adoption on Saturday 25 May, or whether the MMS will be updated this week to reflect the most recent content of the Orange Maintenance Platform, then frozen for presentation next Saturday. If WHO does issue a further release of the Blue Platform, this week, I will update this report.