The level of resources and intensity of care which it is intended to provide or is provided in a particular WARD.
National Codes:
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 a patient 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 GMP |
42 |
for joint use by consultants & GMPs |
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 |
Note: The classification has been listed in logical sequence rather than alphanumeric order.
This attribute is also known by these names:
Context |
Alias |
plural |
CLINICAL CARE INTENSITIES |