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Paediatric Critical Care Minimum Data Set

Provides a record of what happens to a patient on receipt of paediatric critical care in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) or other critical care setting suitable for children.

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Documentation
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About this standard

Publisher
NHS England
Also known as
PCCMDS
Reference code
SCCI0076 Amd 113/2015
Publication date
7 September 2016
Status
Active
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Standard type
  • Collections
  • Information standards
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Collections. A Collection is a systematic gathering of a specified selection of data or information for a particular stated purpose from existing records held within health and care systems and electronic devices.

Extractions. An extraction is a type of collection that is pulled from an operational system by the data controller and transmitted to the receiver without additional processing or transcription by the sender.

Information standards. Information standards are agreed ways of doing something, written down as a set of precise criteria so they can be used as rules, guidelines, or definitions.

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Contact point

enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk

Using this standard

Applies to
  • Acute Trusts (Foundation) providing paediatric critical care services
  • Acute Trusts (non-Foundation) providing paediatric critical care services
Impacts on
Implementation of the change to this information standard impacts all health IT systems suppliers providing systems to the above providers; suppliers and providers should work together to determine necessary changes.
Effective from
7 September 2016

Topics and care settings

Topic
  • Child
  • Data definitions and terminologies
  • Reference data
Care setting
  • Hospital
  • Maternity
  • Urgent and Emergency Care

Dependencies and related standards

Dependencies

No known dependencies.

Related standards

Review Information

Scope
NHS Services
Sponsor

Martin Campbell, Head of Pricing, NHS England

Senior Responsible Officer

Anthony Prudhoe, Senior Programme of Care Manager (Women and Children Specialised Services), NHS England

Business Lead
Paula Monteith, NHS England\r\n
Approval date
25 August 2016
Post Implementation review Date
1 December 2017
Technical Committee

Standardisation Committee for Care Information (SCCI)

Legal basis

Link to Information Standards Notice (ISN)
View the information standards notice

Information Standards Notices (ISNs) are published to announce new or changes to information standards published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012

Legal authority

  • Section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 This information standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

  • NHS standard contract This collection is published under the NHS Standard Contract.

More information

The primary purpose of the PCCMDS is to allow the operation of the National Tariff Payment System (NTPS) within paediatric critical care. It supports the NTPS by specifying and facilitating the capture of data needed to generate a Healthcare Resource Group (HRG) for each calendar day (or part thereof) of a period of paediatric critical care. The HRGs are, in turn, used for:

  • reimbursement
  • commissioning
  • cost monitoring
  • workload planning (clinical and non-clinical)
  • benchmarking.
Data is collected by specified providers of paediatric care and sent directly to NHS England’s Secondary Uses Service (SUS), as a subset of the Admitted Patient Care Data Set (in turn a subset of the Commissioning Data Sets, ISB 0092). This information standard is maintained by the National Casemix Office within NHS England. Version 1.0 of the PCCMDS was introduced in April 2007. About this change Version 2.0 of the Paediatric Critical Care Minimum Data Set maintains the data items introduced in Version 1.0 and, in order to support local use (clinical care and audit) and costing, introduces the following:
  • addition of 6 additional values to CRITICAL CARE ACTIVITY CODE
  • re-naming of DISCHARGE METHOD (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL) to DISCHARGE METHOD CODE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL).
The aggregate activity and costing data generated through Version 2.0 will continue to form part of the annual provider submissions of reference costs data to the Department of Health. Note that there is no change to the existing (Version 1.0) data flow to the Secondary Uses Service (SUS). Data extracts produced for submission to SUS must not contain the new Version 2.0 codes. SUS checks that all Critical Care Activity Code values are in an enumerated list based on Version 1.0; as with other such validation if a value is not found on the list the whole interchange will be rejected. On the next update of CDS, a supporting change to this data set will be made to allow the new codes to flow to SUS. At present, the change to the standard is for:
  1. local use
  2. submission of reference costs.

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