Delivery Place Type (Actual)

Change History

 

DSCN 2023 / 30

Admitted Patient Care Data Set – Retirement of Maternity Tail Data Items

 

This data item is / was included in the following data sets / collections between the dates shown:

 

Data Set / Collection

Valid From

Valid To

APC ds99

1st April 1999

30th June 2023

 

This is used to classify the actual place of delivery. Recording both the planned and the actual place of delivery allows all changes of intent to be logged. Note that if a baby is delivered in a different hospital to the one originally specified, there would be no change in the Delivery Place Type, since the birth would still have taken place in an NHS hospital.

 

Format: 1 digit numeric

See Delivery Place Type