TOTAL INFORMAL ADMISSIONS (MALE)
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The total number of male PATIENTS informally detained under the Mental Health Act and admitted to a Hospital Provider Spell during the REPORTING PERIOD.

It excludes transfers between Health Care Providers and between Hospital Sites of the same Health Care Provider which initiate a new Hospital Provider Spell where the MENTAL HEALTH ACT LEGAL STATUS CLASSIFICATION CODE is unchanged but includes such transfers where the MENTAL HEALTH ACT LEGAL STATUS CLASSIFICATION CODE does change.

It excludes admissions where the PATIENT is being treated under an active Supervised Community Treatment and/or subject of a Supervised Community Treatment Recall.

1. It is a count of the total number of admissions for all PATIENTS within the Health Care Provider where:
  a.the Hospital Provider Spell has a Start Date on or after the REPORTING PERIOD START DATE and the Start Date is before or on the REPORTING PERIOD END DATE 
   and
   where the Hospital Provider Spell contains at least one Consultant Episode (Hospital Provider) where the main TREATMENT FUNCTION of the CONSULTANT is for a mental illness MAIN SPECIALTY. The mental illness MAIN SPECIALTY CODES being 700, 710, 711, 712, 713 and 715. This includes both Hospital Stays and Care Home Stays (Consultant Care) within the Hospital Provider Spell
  and 
  b.the PERSON PROPERTY EFFECTIVE DATE for the MENTAL HEALTH ACT LEGAL STATUS CLASSIFICATION CODE of MENTAL HEALTH ACT LEGAL STATUS CLASSIFICATION is the same as the Start Date of the Hospital Provider Spell i.e. the MENTAL HEALTH ACT LEGAL STATUS CLASSIFICATION should be recorded when the PATIENT was admitted.
  and 
  c.the MENTAL HEALTH ACT LEGAL STATUS CLASSIFICATION CODE is National Code 01 'Informal' 
  and 
  d.the PERSON GENDER CODE of the latest recorded PERSON GENDER (whether recorded before or within) theREPORTING PERIOD is National Code 1 'Male' 
   and
   the PERSON GENDER TYPE for the PERSON GENDER is National Code 02 'Person Gender Current' 
2. Where no admissions match these criteria then TOTAL INFORMAL ADMISSIONS (MALE) should be set to zero.

Start Date is an ACTIVITY DATE where ACTIVITY DATE TIME TYPE is National Code 31 'Start Date' for the ACTIVITY GROUP.

Hospital Provider Spells, Hospital Stays, Consultant Episodes (Hospital Provider), Care Home Stays (Consultant Care), Supervised Community Treatment and Supervised Community Treatment Recall are the same as ACTIVITY GROUP where the ACTIVITY GROUP TYPE identifies the specific spell, episode or stay type.

 

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pluralTOTAL INFORMAL ADMISSIONS (MALE)