Episode of admitted patient care (mental health care)—referral destination, code N

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Referral destination to further care (psychiatric patients)
METEOR identifier:	269990
Registration status:	Health, Standard 01/03/2005
Definition:	The type of further health service care to which a person is referred from mental health, as represented by a code.
Data Element Concept:	Episode of admitted patient care—referral destination
Value Domain:	Mental health hospital care referral destination code N

Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Representation class:	Code
Data type:	Number
Format:	N
Maximum character length:	1
	Value	Meaning
Permissible values:	1	Not referred
	2	Private psychiatrist
	3	Other private medical practitioner
	4	Mental health/alcohol and drug in-patient facility
	5	Mental health/alcohol and drug non in-patient facility
	6	Acute hospital
	7	Other

Data element attributes
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	National Minimum Data Set Working Parties
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Is re-engineered from Referral to further care (psychiatric patients), version 1, DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (14.3 KB) No registration status
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes +	Admitted patient care NMDS 2016-17 Health, Superseded 05/10/2016 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2016 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 Conditional obligation: Only supplied for specialised mental health care patients. Admitted patient care NMDS 2017-18 Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2018 Conditional obligation: Only supplied for specialised mental health care patients. Admitted patient care NMDS 2018-19 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2018 Implementation end date: 30/06/2019 Conditional obligation: Only supplied for specialised mental health care patients. Admitted patient care NMDS 2019-20 Health, Superseded 18/12/2019 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2019 Implementation end date: 30/06/2020 Conditional obligation: Only supplied for specialised mental health care patients. Admitted patient care NMDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2020 Implementation end date: 30/06/2021 Conditional obligation: Only supplied for specialised mental health care patients. Admitted patient care NMDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2021 Implementation end date: 30/06/2022 Conditional obligation: Only supplied for specialised mental health care patients. Admitted patient care NMDS 2022–23 Health, Superseded 20/12/2022 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2022 Implementation end date: 30/06/2023 Conditional obligation: Only required to be reported for episodes of admitted patient care with Hospital service—care type, code N[N] recorded as: Code 11: Mental health care. Admitted patient care NMDS 2023–24 Health, Standard 20/12/2022 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2023 Implementation end date: 30/06/2024 Conditional obligation: Only required to be reported for episodes of admitted patient care with Hospital service—care type, code N[N] recorded as: Code 11: Mental health care. Admitted patient care NMDS 2024–25 Health, Qualified 08/09/2023 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2024 Implementation end date: 30/06/2025 Conditional obligation: Only required to be reported for episodes of admitted patient care with Hospital service—care type, code N[N] recorded as: Code 11: Mental health care. Admitted patient mental health care NMDS Health, Superseded 23/10/2006 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2006 Implementation end date: 30/06/2007 Admitted patient mental health care NMDS Health, Superseded 07/12/2005 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2005 Implementation end date: 30/06/2006 Admitted patient mental health care NMDS 2007-08 Health, Superseded 05/02/2008 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2007 Implementation end date: 30/06/2008 Admitted patient mental health care NMDS 2008-09 Health, Superseded 04/02/2009 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2008 Implementation end date: 30/06/2009 Admitted patient mental health care NMDS 2009-10 Health, Superseded 05/01/2010 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2009 Implementation end date: 30/06/2010 Admitted patient mental health care NMDS 2010-11 Health, Superseded 18/01/2011 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2010 Implementation end date: 30/06/2011 Admitted patient mental health care NMDS 2011-12 Health, Superseded 07/12/2011 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2011 Implementation end date: 30/06/2012 Admitted patient mental health care NMDS 2012-13 Health, Superseded 02/05/2013 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2012 Implementation end date: 30/06/2013 Admitted patient mental health care NMDS 2013-14 Health, Superseded 15/10/2014 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 Admitted patient mental health care NMDS 2014-15 Health, Superseded 04/02/2015 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2014 Implementation end date: 30/06/2015 Admitted patient mental health care NMDS 2015-16 Health, Superseded 19/11/2015 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Implementation end date: 30/06/2016