DISCHARGE DESTINATION

Description

The destination of a PATIENT on completion of a Hospital Provider Spell, or a note that the PATIENT died or was a stillbirth.

DISCHARGE DESTINATION will be replaced with DESTINATION OF DISCHARGE, which is the most recent approved national information standard to describe the required definition.

Code	Description
19	Usual place of residence unless listed below, for example, a private dwelling whether owner occupied or owned by Local Authority, housing association or other landlord. This includes wardened accommodation but not residential accommodation where health care is provided. It also includes PATIENTS with no fixed abode.
29	Temporary place of residence when usually resident elsewhere (includes hotel, residential Educational Establishment)
30	Repatriation from high security psychiatric accommodation in an NHS Hospital Provider ( NHS Trust or NHS Foundation Trust)
37	Court
38	Penal establishment or police station
48	High Security Psychiatric Hospital, Scotland
49	NHS other Hospital Provider - high security psychiatric accommodation
50	NHS other Hospital Provider - medium secure unit
51	NHS other Hospital Provider - WARD for general PATIENTS or the younger physically disabled
52	NHS other Hospital Provider - WARD for maternity PATIENTS or Neonates
53	NHS other Hospital Provider - WARD for PATIENTS who are mentally ill or have Learning Disabilities
54	NHS run Care Home
65	Local Authority residential accommodation i.e. where care is provided
66	Local Authority foster care
79	Not applicable - PATIENT died or stillbirth
84	Non-NHS run hospital - medium secure unit
85	Non-NHS (other than Local Authority) run Care Home
87	Non-NHS run hospital
88	Non-NHS (other than Local Authority) run Hospice

This Attribute is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
Plural	DISCHARGE DESTINATIONS

Type	Link	How used
Class	ACTIVITY GROUP	has an attribute DISCHARGE DESTINATION of type DISCHARGE DESTINATION
Attribute	DESTINATION OF DISCHARGE	references in description DISCHARGE DESTINATION
Data Element	DISCHARGE DESTINATION CODE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL)	references in description DISCHARGE DESTINATION
Data Element	DISCHARGE DESTINATION CODE (MOTHER POST DELIVERY HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL)	references in description DISCHARGE DESTINATION
Attribute	DISCHARGE PLAN CONTENT AGREED BY	references in description DISCHARGE DESTINATION
Data Element	DISCHARGE PLAN CONTENT AGREED BY	references in description DISCHARGE DESTINATION
Supporting Information	Organisation Mergers	references in description DISCHARGE DESTINATION