CLINICAL CARE INTENSITY

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