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Health service event—first service contact date, DDMMYYYY

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termFirst health service contact date
METEOR identifier:Help on this term447930
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Standard 07/12/2011
Definition:Help on this termThe date on which first contact is made between a health care provider and one or more persons for assessment, care, consultation and/or treatment, expressed as DDMMYYYY.
Data Element Concept:Health service event—first service contact date

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termDate
Data type:Help on this termDate/Time
Format:Help on this termDDMMYYYY
Maximum character length:Help on this term8

Data element attributes

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
See also Health service event—service request received date, DDMMYYYY
  • Health, Standard 07/12/2011
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +

Lung cancer (clinical) DSSHealth, Superseded 14/05/2015

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

Use this data element to record the date a patient presents for the first time to a lung or cancer specialist.

This consultation may occur prior to diagnosis so the specialist is involved in the diagnostic process or after the diagnosis of lung cancer has been made so the specialist is involved in the treatment of cancer.

A lung or cancer specialist is defined as a consultant in any of the following specialties: respiratory medicine, cardio-thoracic surgery, clinical oncology, medical oncology and radiation oncology.

Lung cancer (clinical) NBPDSHealth, Standard 14/05/2015

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

Use this data element to record the date a patient presents for the first time to a lung or cancer specialist.

This consultation may occur prior to diagnosis so the specialist is involved in the diagnostic process or after the diagnosis of lung cancer has been made so the specialist is involved in the treatment of cancer.

A lung or cancer specialist is defined as a consultant in any of the following specialties: respiratory medicine, cardio-thoracic surgery, clinical oncology, medical oncology and radiation oncology.


Radiotherapy waiting times DSS 2012-13Health, Superseded 13/11/2013

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2012

Implementation end date: 30/06/2013

Conditional obligation:

Every record must contain either this item or Patient—radiotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY.

DSS specific information:

This is the date of the patient's first ever consultation at a particular establishment with a radiation oncologist. Subsequent consultations the patient has at the same establishment (with the same or different radiation oncologist or for the same or a new diagnosis) are not within scope of the RWT DSS.


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