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Notes: 
Data Set Change Notice 07/2000 implemented a change to replace the composite data items WARD TYPE AT PSYCHIATRIC CENSUS DATE and WARD TYPE AT START OF EPISODE within Commissioning Data Set by their constituent components. For Commissioning Data Set message purposes therefore the constituent component AGE GROUPS INTENDED is required to be separately recorded.

The following values for the attribute AGE GROUP INTENDED, with the addition of Home Leave, are to be used:

1	Neonates
2	Children and /or adolescents
3	Elderly
8	Any age
9	Home Leave

 

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	AGE GROUPS INTENDED