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BED DAYS (MENTAL HEALTH NHS COMMUNITY CARE) is optional in the Mental Health Minimum Data Set collection record. It should only be present if:

a.	one or more Care Home Stay (Nursing Care) and/or Care Home Stay (Residential) within the Adult Mental Health Care Spell has occurred during the REPORTING PERIOD
and
b.	where the BROAD PATIENT GROUP CODE is National Code 5 'Patients with mental illness'
and
c.	where the Care Home is operated and managed by an NHS ORGANISATION as classified by ORGANISATION TYPE

It is the total number of bed days within the REPORTING PERIOD. Each period of bed days is recorded by a Care Home Stay (Nursing Care) or Care Home Stay (Residential) and there may be more than one such stay during the course of an Adult Mental Health Care Spell.

There is a Start Date and End Date for each Care Home Stay (Nursing Care) or Care Home Stay (Residential) and the calculation is based upon those bed days which have occurred during the REPORTING PERIOD adjusted for where periods of bed days overlap the REPORTING PERIOD START DATE and/or REPORTING PERIOD END DATE (this includes where the period of bed days has not yet ended). Where such overlaps occur the REPORTING PERIOD START DATE and/or REPORTING PERIOD END DATE should be used instead of that of the Care Home Stay (Nursing Care) or Care Home Stay (Residential).

BED DAYS (MENTAL HEALTH NHS COMMUNITY CARE) is the sum of the calculated periods of bed days and should be recorded left justified with leading zeros. The calculation should be adjusted for any periods of Mental Health Leave Of Absence or Mental Health Absence Without Leave of 28 days or less.

A PATIENT going on Home Leave, or Mental Health Leave Of Absence for 28 days or less, or who has a current period of Mental Health Absence Without Leave of 28 days or less, does not interrupt the Care Home Stay (Nursing Care) or Care Home Stay (Residential) but are not using a bed during their period of absence.

Care Home Stay (Nursing Care), Care Home Stay (Residential) and Adult Mental Health Care Spell are the same as ACTIVITY GROUP where the ACTIVITY GROUP TYPE identifies the specific spell, episode or stay type.

Mental Health Leave Of Absence, Mental Health Absence Without Leave and Home Leave are instances of LEAVE where the LEAVE TYPE identifies the leave type.

Start Date and End Date are the same as ACTIVITY DATE TIME where the ACTIVITY DATE TIME TYPE identifies the date type.

Care Home is an ORGANISATION SITE where the Care Home is an ORGANISATION SITE.

 

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	BED DAYS (MENTAL HEALTH NHS COMMUNITY CARE)