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OUT-PATIENT ATTENDANCE CONSULTANT (MENTAL HEALTH) is optional in the Mental Health Minimum Data Set and should only be present if:

a.	one or more Out-Patient Attendance Consultant within the Adult Mental Health Care Spell has occurred during the REPORTING PERIOD
and
b.	where the main TREATMENT FUNCTION of the CONSULTANT is for an adult or mental illness MAIN SPECIALTY. The adult or mental illness MAIN SPECIALTY being 700, 710,712, 713 and 715.

It is the total number of such attendances within the REPORTING PERIOD. Each such attendance is recorded by an Out-Patient Attendance Consultant and there may be more than one recorded during the course of a REPORTING PERIOD.

There is an Attendance Date for each Out-Patient Attendance Consultant and the calculation is based upon those attendances which have occurred during the REPORTING PERIOD.

 

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	OUT-PATIENT ATTENDANCES CONSULTANT (MENTAL HEALTH)