GP WRITTEN REFERRALS MADE
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The total number of APPOINTMENTS resulting from GENERAL PRACTITIONER written referrals, whether from doctors or dentists, where PATIENTS have been added to an Out-Patient Waiting List within the REPORTING PERIOD for a first Out-Patient Appointment Consultant.

Currently this count only includes GP written referrals to a named CONSULTANT and excludes any other form of REFERRAL REQUEST whether to a named CONSULTANT or not.

The DECISION TO OFFER AN APPOINTMENT DATE of a SERVICE REQUEST indicates in which REPORTING PERIOD the PATIENT was added to an Out-Patient Waiting List as a result of the REFERRAL REQUEST received. Note there may be a period of time between when the referral was recieved and when the decision to offer an appointment was made and recorded depending upon referral process and whether and what type of booking systems was used.

It is the total number of APPOINTMENTS arising from GP written referrals where:

 a.the REFERRAL REQUEST TYPE of the REFERRAL REQUEST is National Code 01 'GP referral request'
and  
 b.the WRITTEN REFERRAL REQUEST INDICATOR of the REFERRAL REQUEST is classification 'Yes'
and  
 c.the REFERRAL REQUEST is to a CONSULTANT for an Out-Patient Appointment Consultant 
and  
 d.the DECISION TO OFFER AN APPOINTMENT DATE of the SERVICE REQUEST is within the period of the REPORTING PERIOD START DATE and the REPORTING PERIOD END DATE.
  Within the reporting period includes where the date is the same as the start date or end date
and  
 e.the APPOINTMENT FIRST ATTENDANCE of the APPOINTMENT is National Code 01 'First appointment' 
  or
  where there is one or more APPOINTMENT recorded for a PATIENT but none has as yet taken place, the notional 'first appointment' included in the count will be the APPOINTMENT with the earliest APPOINTMENT DATE. This excludes any APPOINTMENTS which have been cancelled as indicated by a recorded APPOINTMENT CANCELLED DATE.

Out-Patient Appointment Consultant is a SERVICE REQUEST for an APPOINTMENT where APPOINTMENT CLASSIFICATION CODE is National Code 02 'Out-Patient Appointment Consultant'.

 

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pluralGP WRITTEN REFERRALS MADE