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Notes:
CONTACTS (COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRIC NURSE) is an optional data element in the Mental Health Minimum Data Set collection record and should only be present if:
| a. | one or more Face To Face Contact Community Care within the Adult Mental Health Care Spell has occurred during the REPORTING PERIOD | |
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| b. | where the COMMUNITY NURSE STAFF GROUP classification is b. 'Community Psychiatric Nurses - providing mental illness services' | |
It is the total number of such contacts within the REPORTING PERIOD. Each such contact is recorded by a Face To Face Contact Community Care and there may be more than one recorded during the course of a REPORTING PERIOD.
There is a Contact Date for each Face To Face Contact Community Care and the calculation is based upon those contacts which have occurred during the REPORTING PERIOD. Where the contact nurse is also the allocated Care Programme Approach care coordinator for the PATIENT then a Face To Face Contact CPA Care Coordinator should also be recorded.
Face To Face Contact Community Care is a CARE CONTACT where the CARE CONTACT TYPE is National Code 15 'Face To Face Contact Community Care'.
Adult Mental Health Care Spell is an ACTIVITY GROUP where the ACTIVITY GROUP TYPE is National Code 23 'Mental Health Care Spell'.
Contact Date is the same as attribute ACTIVITY DATE of ACTIVITY DATE TIME where the ACTIVITY DATE TIME TYPE is National Code 39 'Contact Date'.
This data element is also known by these names:
| Context | Alias |
|---|---|
| plural | CONTACTS (COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRIC NURSE) |