The information required relates to patients who are waiting for a follow-up appointment with the consultant or a member of his or her firm, or a nurse1, within the same specialty.
The data collection includes counts which relate to the following:
•Patients who are waiting for a follow-up appointment where there IS NOT a documented date that the follow-up appointment SHOULD take place (referred to as 'Target Date').
•Patients where there IS NOT a documented date that the follow-up should appointment SHOULD take place and it is unclear whether or not they require or are waiting for a follow-up appointment.
•Patients who are waiting for a follow-up appointment where there IS a documented date that the follow-up appointment SHOULD take place (referred to as 'Target Date').
•Patients who have started the booking process and have been sent an invitation letter asking them to ring and book a follow-up appointment, referred to as ‘invited patients’ are INCLUDED in the scope of the return.
•Patients who are discharged to an SOS pathway, where clinically appropriate, as an outcome of the last clinical review.
•Patients who are discharged to a PIFU pathway, where clinically appropriate, as an outcome of the last clinical review.
•All follow up patients are eligible for inclusion for PIFU or SOS where this pathway has been assessed by a clinician to be clinically appropriate to the individual needs of the patient.
1 Where those nurses/midwives have their own list of patients who are not expected to see or be in contact with a doctor (even though they may refer patients to the doctor be seen or be in contact during the same attendance or contact).
• Noting that HDUHB data excludes this information as it is store on the HCP module and not OPA.
2 The following caveats have been noted:
• CAVUHB are unable to provide Mental Health Pathway data and therefore it will be noted this information is excluded from their monthly submissions
• ABUHB will begin providing Mental Health data within their submissions once WCCIS has been implemented, but it will be noted that a resubmission of retrospective data is unavailable due to system limitations with their previous system (ePEX)