Adult Social Care Glossary, v 0.6

Event Outcome is the intended action once an event is completed. This either indicates that no further action (‘NFA’) is planned by the local authority in relation to the adult’s care needs or describes the planned next step.

Event Outcome should be known at the point when the event is completed, with no further processing required by the local authority. Unlike SALT, there is no requirement for local authorities to track cases and derive the sequel to each event. With CLD, sequels will be derived centrally from the sequence of events using agreed transformations.

Event Outcome will be used to provide a default sequel only where this cannot be derived from subsequent events in CLD. The ‘NFA’ outcomes are particularly important. Other outcomes help identify the sequence of events.

‘NFA’ means that the local authority does not plan any further actions in relation to the adult’s needs for care or support, with the expectation that there would be no subsequent events recorded in CLD.

The 'NFA - Self-funded client (inc. 12wk disregard)' should be used as the Event Outcome for a terminated permanent residential or nursing care service following a 12-week property disregard after which the service user became a self-funder.

Financial assessments are the only events that should not have an Event Outcome recorded, since they are carried out alongside the assessment and provision of care services.

Open and ongoing services should have the Event Outcome 'Provision of service' to indicate that the service was continuing at the end of the reporting period.

For reviews, when there is a change in package, the Event Outcome should be ‘Progress to Support Planning / Services’. When there is no change in package, the Event Outcome should be ‘No change in package’.

When multiple Event Outcomes apply, a single outcome should be selected from the list below, choosing the first which applies according to the order in which they appear, from top to bottom.

The defined list of Event Outcomes is:
• Progress to Reablement/ST-Max
• Progress to Assessment
• Admitted to Hospital
• Progress to Re-assessment / Unplanned Review
• Progress to Support Planning / Services
• Progress to End of Life Care
• No change in package
• Service ended as planned
• Progress to financial assessment
• Provision of service
• NFA - Deceased
• NFA - Moved to another LA
• NFA - 100% NHS-funded care
• NFA - Information & Advice / Signposting only
• NFA - Self-funded client (inc. 12wk disregard)
• NFA - Support declined
• NFA - Support ended – other reason
• NFA - No services offered - other reason
• NFA- Other

Data type: defined list