WARD INTENDED CLINICAL CARE INTENSITY

Mental Illness intensive care: specially designated ward for PATIENTS needing containment and more intensive management (e.g. Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)). This is not to be confused with intensive nursing where PATIENTS may require one to one nursing while on a standard WARD 

Mental Illness short stay: PATIENTS intended to stay less than a year

Mental Illness long stay: PATIENTS intended to stay a year or more

Learning Disability PATIENTS in a designated or interim secure unit

Learning Disability PATIENTS intending to stay less than a year

Learning Disability  PATIENTS intending to stay a year or more

Only for maternity PATIENTS looked after by CONSULTANTS 

Only for maternity PATIENTS looked after by GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS 

Joint use for maternity PATIENTS looked after by CONSULTANTS and  GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS 

Neonates: maternity: associated with the maternity WARD in that cots are in the maternity WARD nursery or in the WARD itself

Neonates: non-maternity: not associated with the maternity WARD and without designated cots for intensive care

Neonates: not associated with the maternity WARD and in which there are some designated cots for intensive care

Younger physically disabled PATIENTS: other units

Terminally ill/ Palliative Care  PATIENTS

General PATIENTS: for intensive therapy, including high dependency care

General PATIENTS: for normal therapy: where resources permit the admission of PATIENTS who might need all but intensive or high dependency therapy

General PATIENTS: for limited therapy: where nursing care rather than continuous medical care is provided. Such WARDS can be used only for PATIENTS carefully selected and restricted to a narrow range in terms of the extent and nature of disease