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Needs & Status Tables

Needs & Status Overview

The status tables contain recent information on social factors and needs affecting patients that may impact of their health and clinical treatment.

Common Fields

Each table has the following fields:

fieldname description
label descriptive label of the table contents. eg 'diabetes'
area_id area id for GP Practice
ods_code ODS (Organisation Data Service) identifier for the GP Practice.
person_id identifier of person
patient_id identifier of patient at a practice

Information format:

table name (relationship)
Measure (full title and synoymns) The business rules syntax used to create the table with (CLUSTER ID)s and date ranges.
Table of fieldnames + description specific to the table
Additional information


status_homeless

Homelessness code (HOMELESS_COD).

fieldname description
latest_date latest date of code for register
latest_code SNOMED concept id for latest code
latest_name code term for latest code

status_housebound

Housebound code (HOUSEBOUND_CEG).

fieldname description
latest_date latest date of code for register
latest_code SNOMED concept id for latest code
latest_name code term for latest code

status_carer

Carer code (ISACARER_COD), excluding patients with a more recent Not A Carer code (NOTACARER_COD).

fieldname description
latest_date latest date of code for register
latest_code SNOMED concept id for latest code
latest_name code term for latest code

status_interpreter (interpreter required)

Includes interpreter requirement codes (REQINTERPRETER_CEG, NOINTERPNEEDED_CEG),
spoken language interpreter codes (SPOKENLANGINTERP_CEG), preferred language codes,
and communication support codes (COMSSUPPORT_CEG) including deafblind, sign language, lip-speaker, speech-to-text reporting, and advocate.

fieldname description
interpreter_latest_date latest date of code for interpreter needed register
interpreter_latest_code SNOMED concept id for latest interpreter needed code
interpreter_latest_name code term for latest interpreter needed code
interpreter_lang_latest_date latest date of code for language interpreter register
interpreter_lang_latest_code SNOMED concept id for latest language interpreter code
interpreter_lang_latest_name code term for latest language interpreter code
preflang_latest_date latest date of code for preferred language register
preflang_latest_code SNOMED concept id for latest preferred language code
preflang_latest_name code term for latest preferred language code
coms_support_latest_date latest date of communication support code
coms_support_latest_code SNOMED concept id for latest communication support code
coms_support_latest_name code term for latest communication support code