Multi-Professional Consultation (Payment By Results) is a CARE CONTACT.

A Multi-Professional Consultation (Payment By Results) is an attendance where multiple CARE PROFESSIONALS are seeing a PATIENT together, in the same attendance, at the same time. This may include CONSULTANTS with the same MAIN SPECIALTY. Where a PATIENT is seen by two or more CONSULTANTS with different MAIN SPECIALTIES, this should be recorded as a Multi-Disciplinary Consultation (Payment By Results).

It does not apply where a PATIENT sees single CARE PROFESSIONALS sequentially as part of the same Out-Patient Clinic, or CLINIC OR FACILITY.

A Multi-Professional Consultation (Payment By Results) should be recorded when a PATIENT benefits in terms of care and convenience from accessing the expertise of two or more CARE PROFESSIONALS at the same time. It does not apply if one CARE PROFESSIONAL is supporting another, either clinically or otherwise, for example in the taking of notes, acting as a chaperone, training, professional update purposes, operating equipment and passing instruments, etc.

The clinical input of Multi-Professional Consultations (Payment By Results) must be evidenced in the relevant clinical notes and/or other relevant documentation.

For the purposes of Payment by Results, a Multi-Professional Consultation (Payment By Results) is reported in the Out-Patient Commissioning Data Set:

• as one Out-Patient Appointment attended with one CARE PROFESSIONAL recognised as the lead CARE PROFESSIONAL for the Multi-Professional Consultation (Payment By Results), and EITHER
• using the OPCS-4 code X62.2 Assessment by Multiprofessional team NEC.

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	Multi-Professional Consultations (Payment By Results)