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ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY TREATMENT - FIRST is the first recorded ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY TREATMENT of a CLINICAL INTERVENTION for an Accident and Emergency Attendance. This is required for recording within an Accident and Emergency Attendance Commissioning Data Set.

See Accident and Emergency Treatment Tables for clinical coding and classification structure.

For Commissioning Data Set and XML Schema version 6 onwards, ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY TREATMENT - FIRST will be recognised as Primary Treatment (Accident and Emergency).

 

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
schema	PRIMARY TREATMENT (ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY)
plural	ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY TREATMENT - FIRST