Each patient attending a group session is counted as a non-admitted patient service event, providing that the session included the provision of therapeutic/clinical advice for each patient and that this was recorded using a dated entry in each patient’s medical record.

Family members are only counted as attending a group session if they are participating in the non-admitted patient service event as a patient in their own right.

Each patient attending a group session is counted as one non-admitted patient service event, regardless of the number of health care providers present.