Notes:
This categorisation describes what is intended to happen to the PATIENT. Occasionally the PATIENT's treatment does not go exactly to plan. For example, a PATIENT admitted as a day case may develop complications and have to be kept in overnight. Therefore another data item, PATIENT CLASSIFICATION, is used to describe what actually happens to the PATIENT. In this example, the PATIENT CLASSIFICATION would be 'Ordinary admission' and not 'Day case admission'.

INTENDED MANAGEMENT will be replaced with INTENDED MANAGEMENT CODE, which should be used for all new and developing data sets and for XML messages.

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	INTENDED MANAGEMENT