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CONTACTS (COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRIC NURSE) is an optional data item note in the Mental Health Minimum Dataset (MHMD) collection record and should only be present if:

a.	one or more FACE TO FACE CONTACT COMMUNITY CARE within the MENTAL HEALTH CARE SPELL has occurred during the REPORTING PERIOD
and
b.	where the COMMUNITY NURSE STAFF GROUP classification is b. 'Community Psychiatric Nurses - providing mental illness services'

It is the total number of such contacts within the REPORTING PERIOD. Each such contact is recorded by a FACE TO FACE CONTACT COMMUNITY CARE and there may be more than one recorded during the course of a REPORTING PERIOD.

There is a CONTACT DATE for each FACE TO FACE CONTACT COMMUNITY CARE and the calculation is based upon those contacts which have occurred during the REPORTING PERIOD. Where the contact nurse is also the allocated Care Programme Approach care coordinator for the PATIENT then a FACE TO FACE CONTACT CPA CARE COORDINATOR should also be recorded.

 

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	CONTACTS (COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRIC NURSES)