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Service type

Definition

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Care Quality Commission

Care Quality Commission



Healthcare services
- Acute services (ACS)
- Hyperbaric chamber services (HBC)
- Hospice services (HPS)
- Long-term conditions services (LTC)
- Hospital services for people with mental health needs, and/or learning disabilities, and/or problems with substance misuse (MLS)
- Prison healthcare services (PHS)
- Rehabilitation services (RHS)
- Residential substance misuse treatment/ rehabilitation services (RSM)

Community or integrated healthcare
- Community healthcare services (CHC)
- Doctors consultation services (DCS)
- Doctors treatment services (DTS)
- Dental services (DEN)
- Diagnostic and/or screening services (DSS)
- Community-based services for people with a learning disability (LDC)
- Mobile doctors services (MBS)
- Community-based services for people with mental health needs (MHC)
- Community-based services for people who misuse substances (SMC)
- Urgent care services (UCS)

Residential social care
- Care home services with nursing (CHN)
- Care home services without nursing (CHS)
- Specialist college services (SPC)

Community social care
- Domiciliary care services including those provided for children (DCC)
- Extra care housing services (EXC)
- Shared Lives (formerly known as Adult Placement) (SHL)
- Supported living services (SLS)

Miscellaneous healthcare
- Ambulance services (AMB)
- Blood and transplant services (BTS)
- Remote clinical advice services (RCA)

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