DISCHARGE DESTINATION CODE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL)

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DISCHARGE DESTINATION CODE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL) is used by the Secondary Uses Service to derive the Healthcare Resource Group 4. Failure to correctly populate this data element is likely to result in an incorrect Healthcare Resource Group, usually associated with lower levels of healthcare resource.

For further information, please refer to the NHS England website at: Payment by Results Guidance.

DISCHARGE DESTINATION CODE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL) will be replaced with DESTINATION OF DISCHARGE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL), which is the most recent approved national information standard to describe the required definition.

Code	Description
19	Usual place of residence unless listed below, for example, a private dwelling whether owner occupied or owned by Local Authority, housing association or other landlord. This includes wardened accommodation but not residential accommodation where health care is provided. It also includes PATIENTS with no fixed abode.
29	Temporary place of residence when usually resident elsewhere (includes hotel, residential Educational Establishment)
30	Repatriation from high security psychiatric accommodation in an NHS Hospital Provider (NHS Trust or NHS Foundation Trust)
37	Court
38	Penal establishment or police station
48	High Security Psychiatric Hospital, Scotland
49	NHS other Hospital Provider - high security psychiatric accommodation
50	NHS other Hospital Provider - medium secure unit
51	NHS other Hospital Provider - WARD for general PATIENTS or the younger physically disabled
52	NHS other Hospital Provider - WARD for maternity PATIENTS or Neonates
53	NHS other Hospital Provider - WARD for PATIENTS who are mentally ill or have Learning Disabilities
54	NHS run Care Home
65	Local Authority residential accommodation i.e. where care is provided
66	Local Authority foster care
79	Not applicable - PATIENT died or stillbirth
84	Non-NHS run hospital - medium secure unit
85	Non-NHS (other than Local Authority) run Care Home
87	Non-NHS run hospital
88	Non-NHS (other than Local Authority) run Hospice

Code	Description
98	Not applicable - Hospital Provider Spell not finished at episode end (i.e. not discharged) or current episode unfinished
99	Not known

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
Plural	DISCHARGE DESTINATION CODES (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL)

Type	Link	How used
Data Set	CDS V6-2 Type 120 - Admitted Patient Care - Finished Birth Episode CDS	references in description DISCHARGE DESTINATION CODE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL)
Data Set	CDS V6-2 Type 130 - Admitted Patient Care - Finished General Episode CDS	references in description DISCHARGE DESTINATION CODE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL)
Data Set	CDS V6-2 Type 140 - Admitted Patient Care - Finished Delivery Episode CDS	references in description DISCHARGE DESTINATION CODE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL)
Data Set	CDS V6-2 Type 180 - Admitted Patient Care - Unfinished Birth Episode CDS	references in description DISCHARGE DESTINATION CODE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL)
Data Set	CDS V6-2 Type 190 - Admitted Patient Care - Unfinished General Episode CDS	references in description DISCHARGE DESTINATION CODE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL)
Data Set	CDS V6-2 Type 200 - Admitted Patient Care - Unfinished Delivery Episode CDS	references in description DISCHARGE DESTINATION CODE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL)
Data Set	Cancer Outcomes and Services Data Set - Core	references in description DISCHARGE DESTINATION CODE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL)
Data Element	DESTINATION OF DISCHARGE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL)	references in description DISCHARGE DESTINATION CODE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL)
Data Element	DISCHARGE DESTINATION CODE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL)	references in description DISCHARGE DESTINATION CODE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL)
Data Set	Maternity Services Data Set	references in description DISCHARGE DESTINATION CODE (HOSPITAL PROVIDER SPELL)