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Service type

Definition

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Service type

from

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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Data descriptor

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Service type

from

CLD Guidance, release 1 (February 2023)

NHS England

The list of service types is based on the main short and long-term support categories included in the SALT return, plus carer support categories for carer services delivered either direct to carers or via service users. Annex D provides worked examples of how to use the carer support categories.

• Short Term Support: ST-Max
• Short Term Support: Ongoing Low Level
• Short Term Support: Other Short Term
• Long Term Support: Nursing Care
• Long Term Support: Residential Care
• Long Term Support: Community
• Long Term Support: Prison
• Carer Support: Direct to Carer
• Carer Support: Support involving the person cared-for

Data type: Defined list

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Value set

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Service type

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NHS Data Dictionary

NHS Digital

Enumerations

01 Appliances Service
02 Arts Therapy Service
03 Cancer Service
04 Cardiac Service
05 Community Dental Service
06 Community Paediatrics Service
07 Continence Service
08 Contraception and Sexual Health Service (Retired 01 September 2015)
09 Counselling Service
10 Dermatology Service
11 Diabetes Service
12 District Nursing Service
13 Ear, Nose and Throat Service
14 End of Life Care Service
15 Gastrointestinal Service
16 Health Visiting Service
17 Hearing Service
18 Intermediate Care Service (Retired 01 April 2020)
19 Long Term Conditions Case Management Service
20 Musculoskeletal Service
21 Neurology Service
22 Nutrition and Dietetics Service
23 Occupational Therapy Service
24 Orthoptist Service
25 Pain Management Service
26 Physiotherapy Service
27 Podiatry Service
28 Public Health and Lifestyle Service
29 Rehabilitation Service
30 Respiratory Service
31 Rheumatology Service
32 School Nursing Service
33 Speech and Language Therapy Service
34 Vulnerable Children's Service
35 Vulnerable Adult's Service
36 Respite Care Service
37 Clinical Psychology Service
38 Children's Community Nursing Service
39 Diagnostic Service
40 Treatment Room Nursing Service
41 Haematology Service
42 Phlebotomy Service
43 Tissue Viability Service
44 Family Support Service
45 Integrated Multidisciplinary_Team (jointly commissioned)
46 Prosthetic Service
47 Specialist_Palliative_Care Service
48 Enablement Service
49 Urgent Care Service
50 Wheelchair Service
51 Crisis_Response_Intermediate_Care_Service
52 Reablement_Intermediate_Care_Service
53 Home-based_Intermediate_Care_Service
54 Community_Bed-based_Intermediate_Care_Service
55 Children's Weight Management Service
56 Adult's Weight Management Service
57 Public Health and Lifestyle Service (Excluding Weight Management)
58 Nutrition and Dietetics Service (Excluding Weight Management)

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Service type

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Discussion

The CQC list of regulated service types seems more relevant to MODS than the list from the NHS Data Dictionary

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