Consultant Episode (Acute Home-Based) is an ACTIVITY GROUP.

A PATIENT may not have concurrent Consultant Episodes (Acute Home-Based) or Consultant Episodes (Hospital Provider) but can have Consultant Episodes (Hospital Provider) overlapping with a Consultant Episode (Acute Home-Based).

The start of a Consultant Episode (Acute Home-Based) will initiate a series of contacts at the PATIENT's normal place of residence to deliver care, each of which will be recorded as an Acute Home-Based Contact. Where face to face contact occurs with the allocated care coordinator, a Face To Face Contact CPA Care Coordinator will also be recorded. In circumstances of the PATIENT approaching readiness for ending the period of care or are in a period of trial withdrawal, contact may be by telephone.

The Consultant Episode (Acute Home-Based) will be ended when the CONSULTANT determines no further acute home-based care is required. When responsibility for a PATIENT transfers from one CONSULTANT to another, then one Consultant Episode (Acute Home-Based) will be ended and another one will be started.

For each Consultant Episode (Acute Home-Based) the responsible CONSULTANT's MAIN SPECIALTY should be recorded together with the TREATMENT FUNCTION. Each episode of acute home-based care must be associated with a PATIENT's single address, and may be made up of a number of Acute Home-Based Contacts.

Information recorded for a Consultant Episode (Acute Home-Based) includes:

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	Consultant Episodes (Acute Home-Based)