Referral to Treatment Patient Tracking Report – Details of Return

First introduced 1st September 2008

Retired October 2009

The data collection will consist of two sets of monthly aggregated data of patients on an open RTT pathway, broken down by weekly time bands. These are:-

1.   Patients on RTT pathways for whom no allocation of date for definitive treatment has been made.

2.   Patients on RTT pathways for whom an allocation of date for definitive treatment has been made which is scheduled beyond their breach date.

Patients who have a treatment or admission date within the target should not be reported.

All files are to be sent in the form of a comma separated text file (csv format). There will be no header record.

Files should be names as:

xxxmmmyy.csv

where: xxx = Local Health Board/ Trust Code

mmm = first three letters of the month to which the return relates, e.g. Apr for the first submission of data relating to waiting times at end April.

yy = last 2 digits of the year

The submission should be sent via the secure upload mechanism located on https://nwdss.wales.nhs.uk (NHS Wales Users Only)

Submission forms for all files are required to be e-mailed to Waitingtimes@wales.nhs.uk with the e-mail subject as 'Patient Tracking Report'.

Local Health Boards /Trusts are required to report on a monthly basis, on the 9^th day of the following month, e.g. the report for the period 1^st - 30^th April will be due on the 9^th May. Where the reporting date falls on a weekend or Bank Holiday, then the report should be sent on the next working day.

Only include counts for those specialties which you provide. Where a Local Health Board/Trust does provide a specialty service but there are nil patients to report, a zero should be in the zero Time Band Relating to Breach Date data item.