PATIENTS FAILED TO ATTEND

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The total number of PATIENTS classified as booked admissions or WAITING LIST admissions, who giving no advanced warning failed to attend for admission from an ELECTIVE ADMISSION LIST to a Hospital Provider Spell within the REPORTING PERIOD.

It includes private PATIENTS and PATIENTS from overseas, it excludes elective planned admissions, Self-Deferred Admission by the PATIENT and Suspended Patients.

It is the total of number of failed to attend for Elective Admission for PATIENTS where:

 a.the ADMISSION OFFER OUTCOME of the OFFER OF ADMISSION is National Code 4 'Patient failed to arrive' 
and  
 b.the OFFERED FOR ADMISSION DATE of the OFFER OF ADMISSION for the Elective Admission List entry is within the period of the REPORTING PERIOD START DATE and the REPORTING PERIOD END DATE 
  Within the REPORTING PERIOD includes where the DATE is the same as the START DATE or END DATE 
and  
 c.no ELECTIVE ADMISSION SUSPENSION DETAIL has been recorded
  or
  if recorded, the LIST SUSPENSION END DATE is before the OFFERED FOR ADMISSION DATE i.e. no period of suspension is still on-going at the DATE failed to attend. Where no LIST SUSPENSION END DATE has been recorded then the period of suspension is still active and should be excluded from the count
and  
 d.the ELECTIVE ADMISSION TYPE is National Code 11 'Waiting list admission' or 12 'Booked admission'
 

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pluralPATIENTS FAILED TO ATTEND