Format/length:	an50
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Notes:
COMMUNITY SURVIVAL TIMES LIST (MENTAL HEALTH) is optional in the Mental Health Minimum Dataset (MHMD) collection record. It should only be present if:

a.	one or more periods of no HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL within the MENTAL HEALTH CARE SPELL has occurred within the REPORTING PERIOD
and
b.	where one or more HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL has occurred within the MENTAL HEALTH CARE SPELL, containing at least one CONSULTANT EPISODE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER) where the main TREATMENT FUNCTION of the CONSULTANT is for an adult or mental illness MAIN SPECIALTY. The adult or mental illness MAIN SPECIALTIES being 700, 710,712, 713 and 715.

For the list, the length in days between each HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL is calculated from the DISCHARGE DATE of one spell and either the START DATE of the next HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL which follows it, if one is recorded, or the end of the REPORTING PERIOD if not.

Where there is no HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL in being at the START DATE of the REPORTING PERIOD then use the DISCHARGE DATE of the last HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL in the MENTAL HEALTH CARE SPELL before the START DATE of the REPORTING PERIOD if any exists. Otherwise no entry in the list should be made in respect of days before the first HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL.

Where there is no HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL in being at the END DATE of the REPORTING PERIOD the END DATE of the REPORTING PERIOD should be used.

A suffix is attached to each calculated period length, the suffixes are:

C -	where the PATIENT has still not been readmitted to hospital by the end of the REPORTING PERIOD but the MENTAL HEALTH CARE SPELL is continuing
E -	where the PATIENT has still not been readmitted to hospital by the end of the REPORTING PERIOD but the MENTAL HEALTH CARE SPELL has finished before the end of the REPORTING PERIOD
P -	where the discharge date initiating the survival times is within the MENTAL HEALTH CARE SPELL but before the start of the REPORTING PERIOD
blank	where an admission terminates the survival period within the MENTAL HEALTH CARE SPELL and within the REPORTING PERIOD

The calculated length of days (plus their suffix) are recorded within the COMMUNITY SURVIVAL TIMES LIST (MENTAL HEALTH) in ascending DISCHARGE DATE of the previous HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL sequence.

 

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	COMMUNITY SURVIVAL TIMES LISTS (MENTAL HEALTH)