Any activity performed by an allied health service provider which supports allied health clinical care.

Allied health professional clinical support activity will be counted using various parameters. The sum total of allied health clinical support activity for each allied health service provider is limited to a single day duration i.e. maximum of 1,440 minutes.

An allied health clinical support activity is performed by an allied health professional, assistant or student working within the professions identified in Allied health clinical support activity – provider profession, code N[N].

A clinical support activity is any activity undertaken by an allied health professional, assistant or student which supports clinical care.

For example:

An activity that provides a service to an individual, group or community to influence health status; preparation and delivery of formal in-services, lectures, tutorials or seminars which impart knowledge to staff and students; formal research activities undertaken to advance the knowledge of the delivery of care to an individual, group or community. This item is limited to activities that lead to, and follow formal approval of the project by a research committee or equivalent body.

The date which an allied health activity occurred, expressed as DDMMYYYY.

This data element should be used in conjunction with the data element: Allied health clinical support activity—activity, code A[AA] to determine the daily totals for each professional for each activity type