Notes:
SSSA (NUMBER FOR DETENTION) is an optional data element in the Mental Health Minimum Data Set collection record and should only be present if one or more Social Services Statutory Assessments with a STATUTORY ASSESSMENT TYPE classification of a.i. 'Assess whether application for compulsory detention should be made have occurred during the REPORTING PERIOD.

It is the total number of such assessments for detention within the REPORTING PERIOD. Each such assessment is recorded by a Social Services Statutory Assessment and there may be more than one recorded during the course of a REPORTING PERIOD.

There is a Statutory Assessment Date for each Social Services Statutory Assessment and the calculation is based upon those assessments for detention which have occurred during the REPORTING PERIOD.

If the PATIENT has more than one Adult Mental Health Care Spell during the same REPORTING PERIOD and therefore more than one Mental Health Minimum Data Set collection record, then the same SSSA (NUMBER FOR DETENTION) will apply for all the Mental Health Minimum Data Set collection records for the PATIENT within the same REPORTING PERIOD.

Social Services Statutory Assessment is a CARE CONTACT where the CARE CONTACT TYPE is National Code 31 'Social Services Statutory Assessment'.

Statutory Assessment Date is an ACTIVITY DATE where ACTIVITY DATE TIME TYPE is National Code 46 'Statutory Assessment Date'.

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

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	SSSA (NUMBER FOR DETENTION)