Patient's Usual Address

Change History
DSCN 2025 / 01	Audiology Wait Times Data Set
DSCN 2024 / 12	Welsh Emergency Care Data Set
DSCN 2022 / 06	Main Specialty (Consultant) (AMD)
DSCN 2020 / 28	Suspected Cancer Pathway – Core (AMD)
DSCN 2020 / 21	Single Cancer Pathway - Core
DSCN 2019 / 09	National Cancer Data Standards for Wales – Core
DSCN 2016 / 02	Maternity Indicators Data Set
DSCN 2015 / 03	Radiotherapy Data Set
DSCN 2012 / 11	Elective Admission List Data Set (EAL Ds)
DSCN (2009) 02 (W)	Emergency Department Data Set
DSCN (2008) 05 (W)	Outpatient Referral Data Set
DSCN (2007) 06 (W)	Amendments to Data Items; 'Patients Usual Address', 'Postcode of Usual Address' and 'Birth Date'.

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	1^st April 1999
EAL ds	1^st April 1999	21^st November 2012
OP ds	1^st April 1999
CC ds	1^st April 2007
OPR ds	1^st July 2008
EDDS	1^st April 2009
RTDS	1^st April 2014
MI ds	1^st April 2016
SCPC ds	1^st January 2021
National Cancer Ds - Core
WECDS	1^st August 2024
AUD WT ds	1^st April 2025

This is the usual address:

• (in the SCPC ds) for the patient at the Pathway Start Date (Point of Suspicion of Cancer)

• (in every other data set listed above) nominated by the patient at the time of admission or attendance. If patients usually reside elsewhere are staying in hotels, hostels or other residential establishments for a short term, say a week, they should be recorded as staying at their usual place of residence. However if long term, such as at boarding school, the school address must be recorded. University students may nominate either their home address or the address of their university accommodation. Where patients are not capable of supplying this information, because of age or mental illness, for example, then the person responsible for the patient, such as a parent or guardian, should nominate the usual address. Patients not able to provide an address should be asked for their most recent address. If this cannot be established then you should record the address as `No fixed abode' or `Address unknown'. These patients are regarded as resident in the local geographical district for contracting purposes. For birth episodes this should refer to the mother's usual place of residence.

Format: 175 character alpha-numeric. This is based on 5 lines of 35 characters. This relates to the physical layout of the address, not the logical layout and does not require intelligent intervention when splitting the text string into lines.

Prior to April 1999 the PEDW Format: 100 character alpha-numeric. This is based on 4 lines of 25 characters. This relates to the physical layout of the address, not the logical layout.