Format/Length:	n2
HES Item:
National Codes:	See CLINICAL CARE INTENSITY
Default Codes:

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 INTENDED CLINICAL CARE INTENSITY is required to be separately recorded.

INTENDED CLINICAL CARE INTENSITY is the same as attribute CLINICAL CARE INTENSITY, and the values recorded within the Commissioning Data Set messages are the National Codes contained within the definition of CLINICAL CARE INTENSITY, including additions:

	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 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
	additional codes
71	Home Leave, non-psychiatric
72	Home Leave, psychiatric

INTENDED CLINICAL CARE INTENSITY will be replaced with INTENDED CLINICAL CARE INTENSITY 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 CLINICAL CARE INTENSITIES