The Following DSCNs have been approved by the Welsh Information Standards Board. Changes will be reflected in the NHS Wales Data Dictionary.
|
DSCN |
Welsh Health Circular (WHC)/ WG Official Letter Ref |
Description |
Issue Date |
Implementation Date |
Data Dict. Ver. |
| 2021 / 01 | Single Cancer Pathway – Adjustments Data Set – Retirement | 3rd February 2021 | With immediate effect | 4.11 | |
| 2021 / 02 |
Inpatient and Day Case Admissions and First Outpatient Appointments Waiting Times (PP01W) Data Set - Retirement |
8th February 2021 | With immediate effect | 4.11 | |
| 2021 / 03 | National Cancer Data Standards for Wales – Site Specific – Brain & Central Nervous System (CNS) |
8th February 2021 | The Cancer Informatics Solution (CIS) MUST comply with this Standard with immediate effect. Services/data providers, however, MUST operate to ‘business as usual’ in terms of the data being collected and reported (see section Actions Required in this Notice) |
4.11 | |
| 2021 / 04 | 111 Service Final Outcomes | 5th March 2021 | September 2021 | 4.11 | |
| 2021 / 05 | 111 Service Relationship to Caller | 5th March 2021 | September 2021 | 4.11 | |
| 2021 / 06 | National Cancer Data Standards for Wales – Site Specific – Skin | 25th March 2021 | The Cancer Informatics Solution (CIS) MUST comply with this Standard with immediate effect. Services/data providers, however, MUST operate to ‘business as usual’ in terms of the data being collected and reported (see section Actions Required in this Notice) |
4.11 | |
| 2021 / 07 | 28 days Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (sCAMHS) waiting time data collection | 31st March 2021 | 1st April 2021 | 4.11 | |
| 2021 / 08 | Digitisation of Nursing Documentation – Adult Inpatient Assessment | 1st April 2021 | November 2019 | 4.11 | |
| 2021 / 09 | Digitisation of Nursing Documentation – Continence / Toileting Risk Assessment Tool | 1st April 2021 | March 2021 | 4.11 | |
| 2021 / 10 | Digitisation of Nursing Documentation – Nutritional Risk Assessment Tool | 1st April 2021 | March 2021 | 4.11 | |
| 2021 / 11 | Digitisation of Nursing Documentation – Falls & Bone Health Multifactorial Assessment | 1st April 2021 | March 2021 | 4.11 | |
| 2021 / 12 | Digitisation of Nursing Documentation – Pain Assessment Tool | 1st April 2021 | March 2021 | 4.11 | |
| 2021 / 13 | Digitisation of Nursing Documentation – Patient Handling Assessment and Safer Handling Plan | 1st April 2021 | March 2021 | 4.11 | |
| 2021 / 14 | Digitisation of Nursing Documentation – Purpose T Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment | 1st April 2021 | March 2021 | 4.11 | |
| 2021 / 15 | Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010 Data Collection (AMD) | 23rd April 2021 | 1st April 2021 | 4.12 | |
| 2021 / 16 | Children and Young People Neurodevelopment Assessment – Wait Times (AMD) | 23rd April 2021 | 1st April 2021 | 4.12 | |
| 2021 / 17 | Deaths Subject to a Universal Mortality Review (UMR) - Retirement | 23rd April 2021 | 30th April 2021 (last submission for census data at 31st March 2021) | 4.12 |