The value recorded must be the highest level of care given during a Hospital Provider Spell with Neonatal Level Of Care Periods.

NEONATAL LEVEL OF CARE CODE 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.

For the Commissioning Data Sets:

• Not applicable means "stillbirth or the episode of care does not involve a Neonate during all, or part, of the duration of the episode"
• Not known means "the episode of care involves a Neonate and is finished but no data has been entered, or the episode involves a Neonate and is unfinished therefore no data needs to be present. This would constitute a validation error only for a finished episode".

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	NEONATAL LEVELS OF CARE CODES