Format/length:	n1
HES item:	ADMISTAT
National Codes:
Default Codes:

Notes:
Where a PATIENT has a history of admissions to several Hospital Provider, then priority between National Codes 1 and 2 should be given to the current Hospital Provider, and National Code 1 selected, irrespective of whether or not the last admission was to the same Hospital Provider.

This data item applies only to PATIENTS admitted or transferred to a CONSULTANT in one of the psychiatric specialties within a Hospital Provider Spell. Record this against the first consultant episode under a CONSULTANT in one of the psychiatric specialties but not for subsequent psychiatric consultant episodes or for any non-psychiatric episodes. This information is used to indicate the turnover period within the service and identify, where possible, all first time psychiatric admissions and re-admissions.

Permitted National Codes:

0	No known previous Hospital Provider Spells with a Consultant Episode (Hospital Provider) within a psychiatric speciality within any Health Care Provider.
1	One or more previous Hospital Provider Spells involving a Consultant Episode (Hospital Provider) within a psychiatric specialty with this Health Care Provider.
2	One or more previous Hospital Provider Spells involving a Consultant Episode (Hospital Provider) within a psychiatric specialty with another Health Care Provider, but none with this Health Care Provider.
8	Not applicable: the PATIENT is not receiving admitted patient care under a CONSULTANT in a psychiatric specialty.
9	Not known: the PATIENT is receiving admitted patient care under a CONSULTANT in a psychiatric specialty, but the information is not available. This constitutes a validation error

PSYCHIATRIC PATIENT STATUS will be replaced with PSYCHIATRIC PATIENT STATUS 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	PSYCHIATRIC PATIENT STATUS