ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY INVESTIGATION - SECOND

ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY INVESTIGATION - SECOND  is the same as attribute ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY INVESTIGATION.

ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY INVESTIGATION - SECOND  is the second or subsequent CLINICAL INTERVENTION for an Accident and Emergency Attendance.

ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY INVESTIGATION - SECOND is required for recording within an Accident and Emergency Attendance Commissioning Data Set.

For Commissioning Data Set and Schema version 6 onwards, ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY INVESTIGATION - SECOND will be recognised as Secondary Investigation (Accident and Emergency).

For Commissioning Data Set version 6 onwards there are no restrictions on the number of Secondary Investigations (Accident and Emergency) recorded.

ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY INVESTIGATION - SECOND is used by the Secondary Uses Service  to derive the Healthcare Resource Group   4. Failure to correctly populate this data element is likely to result in an incorrect Healthcare Resource Group, usually associated with lower levels of healthcare resource.

For further information, please refer to the NHS Digital  website at: Payment by Results Guidance.