CSDS sets out national definitions for the extraction of data about children and adults:
• personal and demographic
• social and personal circumstances
• breastfeeding and nutrition
• care event and screening activity
• diagnoses
• scored assessments

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https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-sets/community-services-data-set

Providers of publicly-funded community services are legally mandated to collect and submit community health data, as set out by the Health and Social Care Act 2012. The Community Services Data Set (CSDS) expands the scope of the Children and Young People"s Health Services Data Set (CYPHS) data set, by removing the 0-18 age restriction. The CSDS supersedes the CYPHS data set, to allow adult community data to be submitted. The structure and content of the CSDS remains the same as the CYPHS data set. The Community Information Data Set (CIDS) has been retired, to remove the need for a separate local collection and reduce burden on providers. Reports from the CSDS are available to download from the Community Services Data Set reports webpage

Timescales for dissemination can be found under "Our Service Levels" at the following link: [https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-access-request-service-dars-process](https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-access-request-service-dars-process)

1082405 referrals were received during December 2020, as recorded in the Community Services dataset

Across all submitters of referral data to CSDS in December 2020, there were 778520 patients with a referral received during the month, of which 185,525 were children and young people, 247240 were adults aged 19-64 and 345790 were adults aged 65 and over.

6905702 care contacts were made during December 2020, as recorded in the Community Services dataset

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NHS ENGLAND

A unique identifier generated from the CARE PROFESSIONAL TEAM LOCAL IDENTIFIER and the ORGANISATION IDENTIFIER (CODE OF PROVIDER) from CYP000.

Unique_TeamID_Local

Care Activities

Age_Contact_Date

Age_Referral_ClosureDate

Age at Service Referral Rejection in days.

Age_Referral_RejectionDate

Age in days of the patient at the time of the BMI Observation.

ServiceLineAgreement

Age of the patient in days, on the date the Breastfeeding Status was observed.

Age_BreastFeedingStatus

All pseudonymised (non-sensitive and non-identifiable) data items from the Care Activities group. Detailed list can be found on CSDS web site https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-sets/community-services-data-set

all pseudo Care Activities data

The registration identifier allocated by an ORGANISATION.

RegistrationEntryID

Unique_CareActivityID

To uniquely identify the CARE PROFESSIONAL.

UniqueCareProfessionalID_Local

Unique_CareContactID

Unique_ServiceRequestID

A code which identifies the PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION BODY or Representative Body.

ProfRegCode

A National Code for a POSITION applicable to an EMPLOYEE.

JobRoleCode

A nationally unique derived equivalent of CARE PROFESSIONAL LOCAL IDENTIFIER

Unique_CPLID

A nationally unique ID for the patient in the CSDS generated from an index held by the BSP.

UniqueCYPHS_ID_Patient

A unique identifier for a finding from a specific classification or clinical terminology.

FindingCode

A unique identifier for a procedure from a specific clinical terminology.

ProcCode

A unique identifier for an observation from a specific clinical terminology.

ObsCode

A unique identifier generated from the CARE PROFESSIONAL TEAM LOCAL IDENTIFIER and the ORGANISATION CODE (CODE OF PROVIDER) from CYP000 - pseudonymised to avoid potential inclusion of personal identifiable data

pseudo_UniqueCareProTeam_ID

A unique identifier generated from the CARE PROFESSIONAL TEAM LOCAL IDENTIFIER and the ORGANISATION CODE (CODE OF PROVIDER) from CYP000.

UniqueCareProTeam_ID

Age_ServiceRefClosure

Age_ServiceRefClosure_Years

Age at Service Referral Rejection in days

Age_ServiceRefRejection

Age at Service Referral Rejection in years

Age_ServiceRefRejection_Years

Age in days of the patient at the time of the BMI Observation

Age_BMI_Observation

Age in years of the patient at the time of the BMI Observation

Age_BMI_Observation_Years

Age of the patient in days on the date Breastfeeding Status was observed as part of the Care Activity in CYP202.

Age_BreastfeedingObsDate

Age_BreastfeedingObsDate_Years

An indicator of whether a Care Activity was delivered as Group Therapy.

Group Therapy is a SESSION where more than one PATIENT attends at the same time, to see one or more CARE PROFESSIONALS. Clinical notes are recorded in each individual PATIENT's casenotes.

GPTherapyInd

An NHS OCCUPATION CODE for an EMPLOYEE filling a POSITION.

The NHS OCCUPATION CODES are maintained by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, on behalf of the Department of Health and can be viewed in the NHS Occupation Code Manual.

OccupationCode

Distance from home to activity location in kilometres

ContactLocationDistanceFromHome

Identifies the communication mechanism used to relay information between the CARE PROFESSIONAL and the PERSON who is the subject of the consultation, during a CARE ACTIVITY.

The telephone or telemedicine consultation should directly support diagnosis and care planning and must replace a face to face Out-Patient Attendance Consultant, Clinic Attendance Nurse or Clinic Attendance Midwife, types of CARE ACTIVITY. A record of the telephone or telemedicine consultation must be retained in the PATIENT's records.

Telephone contacts solely for informing PATIENTS of results are excluded.

Medium

Indicates whether an APPOINTMENT for a CARE CONTACT took place and if the APPOINTMENT did not take place it whether advanced warning was given.

AttendCode

It is the date of the earliest of the Reasonable Offers made to a PATIENT for an APPOINTMENT or Elective Admission. It should only be included on the Commissioning Data Sets where the PATIENT has declined at least two Reasonable Offers, and a Patient Pause is to be applied to the length of wait calculation performed by the Secondary Uses Service. In format CCYY-MM-DD

Patient Cancellations

Where, for any reason, a PATIENT cancels or does not attend an APPOINTMENT or an OFFER OF ADMISSION the EARLIEST REASONABLE OFFER DATE for the rearranged APPOINTMENT or OFFER OF ADMISSION will be the EARLIEST REASONABLE OFFER DATE of the cancelled APPOINTMENT or OFFER OF ADMISSION.

Provider Cancellations

Where, for any reason, any Health Care Provider cancels and re-arranges an APPOINTMENT or an OFFER OF ADMISSION, the EARLIEST REASONABLE OFFER DATE for the re-arranged APPOINTMENT or OFFER OF ADMISSION will be the date of the earliest Reasonable Offer made following the cancellation.

Patients who are unavailable

Where a PATIENT makes themself unavailable for a longer period of time, for example a PATIENT who is a teacher who wishes to delay their admission until the summer holidays, making a Reasonable Offer may be inappropriate.

In these circumstances, so long as the Health Care Provider could have made at least two Reasonable Offers, the EARLIEST REASONABLE OFFER DATE will be the date of the earliest Reasonable Offer that the provider could have offered the PATIENT. This must be communicated to the PATIENT.

OfferDate

ORGANISATION CODE (CODE OF COMMISSIONER) is the ORGANISATION CODE of the Organisation commissioning health care.

The NHS England document "Who pays? Determining responsibility for payments to providers" sets out a framework for establishing responsibility for commissioning an individual's care within the NHS, (i.e. determining who pays for a PATIENT’s care.)

The document includes information on the following:

•General Rules
•Applying the rules to Clinical Commissioning Group commissioned services
•Exceptions to the general rules
•Examples to help clarify the boundaries of responsibility between commissioning Organisations.

For further information on this document contact NHS England at "Contact us".

ORGANISATION CODE (CODE OF COMMISSIONER) will be replaced with ORGANISATION IDENTIFIER (CODE OF COMMISSIONER), when it has been approved for use in national information standards.

orgcodecomm

Organisation code of provider submitting the data.

OrgCode_Prov

PERSON HEIGHT IN METRES is the result of the Clinical Investigation which measures the PATIENT's Height, where the UNIT OF MEASUREMENT is 'Metres (m)'.

Height

PERSON LENGTH IN CENTIMETRES is the Length of the PATIENT, where the UNIT OF MEASUREMENT is 'Centimetres (cm)'.

Length

PERSON WEIGHT is the result of the Clinical Investigation which measures the PATIENT's Weight, where the UNIT OF MEASUREMENT is 'Kilograms (kg)'.

Weight

School Year of the young person at the time of the BMI Observation

SchoolYear_BMI_Observation

SITE CODE (OF TREATMENT) is the ORGANISATION SITE CODE for the ORGANISATION SITE where the PATIENT was treated. 

This identifies the site within the ORGANISATION on which the PATIENT was treated, since facilities may vary on different hospital sites. The code recorded should always be the national code; if the treatment is sub-commissioned to another provider, the site code used should be that of the provider actually carrying out the work.

If the Site Code is not available and only the Organisation Code is available then this field should contain the Organisation Code suffixed with '00' as the site code.

SiteCode

ProcScheme

FindingScheme

ObsScheme

The date on which a Care Contact took place, or, if cancelled, was scheduled to take place. In format CCYY-MM-DD

This should be recorded in the eGIF Date format CCYY-MM-DD.

CContactDate

The date that a Care Contact was cancelled by the Provider or Patient. In format CCYY-MM-DD

CancelDate

The date that a replacement appointment was booked following the cancellation of an appointment with the patient by the SERVICE. In format CCYY-MM-DD

ReplApptDate

The date the Referral Request to a Health Care Provider's Service was closed by the Health Care Provider's Service. The overarching referral may remain open if another service or team involved in the same referral is still actively treating the patient. In format CCYY-MM-DD

RefCloseDate

The date the Referral Request to a Health Care Provider's Service was rejected by the Health Care Provider's Service. The overarching referral may remain open if another service or team involved in the same referral is still actively treating the patient. In format CCYY-MM-DD

RefRejDate

The duration of a CARE ACTIVITY in minutes, excluding any administration time prior to or after the CARE ACTIVITY and the CARE PROFESSIONAL's travelling time to the LOCATION where the CARE ACTIVITY was provided.

This is calculated from the Start Time and End Time of the CARE ACTIVITY.

ContactDuration

The earliest DATE that it was clinically appropriate for an ACTIVITY to take place. In format CCYY-MM-DD

AppropDate

The first day of the extract. In format CCYY-MM-DD

ExtractPeriodStartDate

The last day of the extract. In format CCYY-MM-DD

ExtractPeriodEndDate

The numeric value resulting from a clinical OBSERVATION.

ObsValue

The person who was the subject of the Care Contact.

CCSubject

The reason that a Care Contact was cancelled.

CancelReason

The reason that a Referral Request has been closed. A Referral Request can be closed as a result of a Patient being discharged from the SERVICE.

Cancelled referrals such as those entered onto a system in error should not be submitted within the data set.

RefCloseReason

The reason that a Referral Request has been rejected by the SERVICE.

RefRejReason

ProfRegID

The replacement appointment date offered by the provider to the patient following the cancellation of an appointment by the SERVICE. In format CCYY-MM-DD

ReplApptOffDate

The staff group of a CARE PROFESSIONAL working in a Community Health Service.

StaffGroup901

The time at which a Care Contact took place.

The time should be recorded using the 24 hour clock format in eGIF format i.e. hh:mm:ss.

CContactTime

The total duration of the direct clinical contact at CARE CONTACT in minutes, excluding any administration time prior to or after the CARE CONTACT and the CARE PROFESSIONAL's travelling time to the CARE CONTACT.

CLINICAL CONTACT DURATION OF CARE CONTACT includes the time spent on the different CARE ACTIVITIES that may be performed in a single CARE CONTACT. The duration of each CARE ACTIVITY is recorded in CLINICAL CONTACT DURATION OF CARE ACTIVITY.

This should be recorded in minutes.

ClinDuration

The type of Care Activity performed during a Care Contact by a CARE PROFESSIONAL.

ActivityCode

The type of community service or team that the patient has been referred into.

TeamType

The type of physical LOCATION where PATIENTS are seen or where SERVICES are provided or from which requests for services are sent.

LocCode

The unit of measurement used to measure the result of a clinical OBSERVATION. See http://unitsofmeasure.org/trac/.

UCUMUnit

This indicates the type of consultation for a SERVICE.

ConsultType

This is recorded for PATIENT ACTIVITY.

A PATIENT who is an Overseas Visitor does not qualify for free NHS healthcare and can choose to pay for NHS treatment or for private treatment. If they pay for NHS treatment then they should be recorded as NHS PATIENTS.

The PATIENT's ADMINISTRATIVE CATEGORY CODE may change during an episode or spell. For example, the PATIENT may opt to change from NHS to private health care. In this case, the start and end dates for each new ADMINISTRATIVE CATEGORY PERIOD (episode or spell) should be recorded.

If the ADMINISTRATIVE CATEGORY CODE changes during a Hospital Provider Spell the ADMINISTRATIVE CATEGORY CODE (ON ADMISSION) is used to derive the 'Category of PATIENT' for Hospital Episode Statistics (HES).

The category 'amenity PATIENT' is only applicable to PATIENTS using a Hospital Bed.

AdminCatCode

This is the type of feed a baby is receiving

BFStatus

TimeBetweenRefAndCareContact

UniqueCareActivity_ID

To uniquely identify the activity - pseudonymised to avoid potential inclusion of personal identifiable data

pseudo_UniqueCareActivity_ID

UniqueCareContact_ID

To uniquely identify the contact - pseudonymised to avoid potential inclusion of personal identifiable data

pseudo_UniqueCareContact_ID

uniqueservicereq_id

To uniquely identify the referral - pseudonymised to avoid potential inclusion of personal identifiable data

pseudo_uniqueservicereq_id

All pseudonymised (non-sensitive and non-identifiable) data items from the Care Plans group. Detailed list can be found on CSDS web site https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-sets/community-services-data-set

all pseudo Care Plans data

Care Plans

Unique_PlanID

Age of the patient in days when the Coded Scored Assessment Tool was completed.

Age_AssessmentToolComp_Date

Coded Scored Assessments

All pseudonymised (non-sensitive and non-identifiable) data items from the Coded Scored Assessments group. Detailed list can be found on CSDS web site https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-sets/community-services-data-set

all pseudo Coded Scored Assessments data

Age_AssessmentTool

Age of the patient in years when the Coded Scored Assessment Tool was completed.

Age_AssessmentTool_years

The date on which an assessment took place. In format CCYY-MM-DD

CompDate

The observable value (score) resulting from an ASSESSMENT.

Score

The SNOMED CT concept ID which is used to identify an ASSESSMENT in SNOMED CT.

SNOMEDID

A classification which identifies the source of referral to a Community Health Service.

Internal Referrals should normally be recorded as 'Community Service' and the Referring Organisation Code will be the same as the Organisation Code (Code of Provider).

referralsource

Demographics and Referrals

A cumulative count of the number of Care Contacts that were attended and that have taken place within the Referral.

CareContactCountAttended

A cumulative count of the number of Care Contacts that were not attended and that have taken place within the Referral.

CareContactCountNotAttended

Providers of publicly-funded community services are legally mandated to collect and submit community health data, as set out by the Health and Social Care Act 2012. The Community Services Data Set (CSDS) expands the scope of the Children and Young People's Health Services Data Set (CYPHS) data set, by removing the 0-18 age restriction. The CSDS supersedes the CYPHS data set, to allow adult community data to be submitted. The structure and content of the CSDS remains the same as the CYPHS data set. The Community Information Data Set (CIDS) has been retired, to remove the need for a separate local collection and reduce burden on providers. Reports from the CSDS are available to download from the Community Services Data Set reports webpage

Timescales for dissemination can be found under 'Our Service Levels' at the following link: [https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-access-request-service-dars-process](https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-access-request-service-dars-process)

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