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Notes:
CONTACTS (CONSULTANT PSYCHOTHERAPY) 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 OUT-PATIENT ATTENDANCE CONSULTANT within the MENTAL HEALTH CARE SPELL has occurred during the REPORTING PERIOD
and
b.	where the MAIN SPECIALTY for the CONSULTANT is 713 'PSYCHOTHERAPY'

It is the total number of such attendances within the REPORTING PERIOD. Each such attendance is recorded by an OUT-PATIENT ATTENDANCE CONSULTANT and there may be more than one recorded during the course of a REPORTING PERIOD.

There is a ATTENDANCE DATE for each OUT-PATIENT ATTENDANCE CONSULTANT and the calculation is based upon those attendances which have occurred during the REPORTING PERIOD. Where the CONSULTANT 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 (CONSULTANT PSYCHOTHERAPISTS)