Notes:
CPA STANDARD DAYS is an optional data element in the Mental Health Minimum Data Set collection record and should only be present if one or more Care Programme Approach Episode with CARE PROGRAMME APPROACH LEVEL National Code 1 'Standard, requires the support or intervention of one agency or discipline; or requires only low key support from more one agency' have occurred during the REPORTING PERIOD.

It is the total number of CPA STANDARD DAYS within the Adult Mental Health Care Spell within the REPORTING PERIOD. Each period of CPA STANDARD DAYS is recorded by a Care Programme Approach Episode and there may be more than one such episode during the course of an Adult Mental Health Care Spell.

There is a Start Date and End Date for each Care Programme Approach Episode and the calculation is based upon those CPA STANDARD DAYS which have occurred during the REPORTING PERIOD adjusted for where periods of CPA STANDARD DAYS overlap the REPORTING PERIOD START DATE and/or REPORTING PERIOD END DATE (this includes where the period of CPA STANDARD 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 Programme Approach Episode.

CPA ENHANCED DAYS is the sum of the calculated periods of CPA STANDARD DAYS and should be recorded left justified with leading zeros.

Please note that although both CPA ENHANCED DAYS and CPA STANDARD DAYS are classed as optional data elements at least one of them should be present within the Mental Health Minimum Data Set collection record as Care Programme Approach is mandatory. A PATIENT subject to an Adult Mental Health Care Spell therefore should always have recorded CPA days with only the CARE PROGRAMME APPROACH LEVEL varying during the period of the Adult Mental Health Care Spell.

Care Programme Approach Episode is an ACTIVITY GROUP where ACTIVITY GROUP TYPE is National Code 10 'Care Programme Approach Episode'.

Adult Mental Health Care Spell is an ACTIVITY GROUP where ACTIVITY GROUP TYPE is National Code 23 'Adult Mental Health Care Spell'.

Start Date is an ACTIVITY DATE where ACTIVITY DATE TIME TYPE is National Code 31 'Start Date'.

End Date is an ACTIVITY DATE where ACTIVITY DATE TIME TYPE is National Code 11 'End Date'.

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	CPA STANDARD DAYS