The level of resources and intensity of care which it is intended to provide or is provided in a particular WARD.
National Codes:
| For patients with mental illness |
| 51 | for intensive care: specially designated ward for patients needing containment and more intensive management. This is not to be confused with intensive nursing where a patients may require one to one nursing while on a standard ward |
| 52 | for short stay: patients intended to stay less than a year |
| 53 | for long stay: patients intended to stay a year or more |
| For patients with learning disabilities |
| 61 | designated or interim secure unit |
| 62 | patients intending to stay less than a year |
| 63 | patients intending to stay a year or more |
| For maternity patients |
| 41 | only for patients looked after by consultants |
| 43 | only for patients looked after by General Medical Practitioners |
| 42 | for joint use by consultants & General Medical Practitioners |
| For neonates |
| 33 | maternity: associated with the maternity ward in that cots are in the maternity ward nursery or in the ward itself |
| 32 | non-maternity: not associated with the maternity ward and without designated cots for intensive care |
| 31 | not associated with the maternity ward and in which there are some designated cots for intensive care |
| For the younger physically disabled |
| 21 | spinal units, only those units which are nationally recognised |
| 22 | other units |
| For terminally ill/palliative care |
| 81 | terminally ill/palliative care |
| For general patients |
| 11 | for intensive therapy, including high dependency care |
| 12 | for normal therapy: where resources permit the admission of patients who might need all but intensive or high dependency therapy |
| 13 | 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 |
Note: The classification has been listed in logical sequence rather than alphanumeric order.
This attribute is also known by these names:
| Context | Alias |
| plural | CLINICAL CARE INTENSITIES |