Attribute: CLINICAL CARE INTENSITY

CLINICAL CARE INTENSITY

The level of resources and intensity of care which it is intended to provide or is provided in a particular WARD.

Notes:

National Code descriptions have been updated to remove National Code headings and add prefixes. The Data Set specifications that contain this item will be updated in the next version of the Information Standard where it is not already correct.

National Codes:

51	Mental Illness intensive care: specially designated ward for PATIENTS needing containment and more intensive management. This is not to be confused with intensive nursing where PATIENTS may require one to one nursing while on a standard WARD
52	Mental Illness short stay: PATIENTS intended to stay less than a year
53	Mental Illness long stay: PATIENTS intended to stay a year or more

61	Learning Disability PATIENTS in a designated or interim secure unit
62	Learning Disability PATIENTS intending to stay less than a year
63	Learning Disability PATIENTS intending to stay a year or more

41	Only for maternity PATIENTS looked after by CONSULTANTS
43	Only for maternity PATIENTS looked after by GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS
42	Joint use for maternity PATIENTS looked after by CONSULTANTS and GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS

33	Neonates: maternity: associated with the maternity WARD in that cots are in the maternity WARD nursery or in the WARD itself
32	Neonates: non-maternity: not associated with the maternity WARD and without designated cots for intensive care
31	Neonates: not associated with the maternity WARD and in which there are some designated cots for intensive care

21	Younger physically disabled PATIENTS: spinal units, only those units which are nationally recognised
22	Younger physically disabled PATIENTS: other units

81	Terminally ill/Palliative Care PATIENTS

11	General PATIENTS: for intensive therapy, including high dependency care
12	General PATIENTS: for normal therapy: where resources permit the admission of PATIENTS who might need all but intensive or high dependency therapy
13	General PATIENTS: for limited therapy: where nursing care rather than continuous medical care is provided. Such WARDS can be used only for PATIENTS carefully selected and restricted to a narrow range in terms of the extent and nature of disease

Note: The National Codes have been listed in logical sequence rather than alphanumeric order.

This attribute is also known by these names:

Context Alias

plural CLINICAL CARE INTENSITIES