OUTPATIENT ATTENDANCE IDENTIFIER is a unique identifier for each Care Professional Out-Patient Attendance.

Note that the OUTPATIENT ATTENDANCE IDENTIFIER must be constructed without the use of PATIENT Confidential Information. This includes PATIENT Identifiers such as NHS NUMBER or LOCAL PATIENT IDENTIFIER, as well as any text which may identify the PATIENT DIAGNOSIS of the PATIENT or any PATIENT procedures being undertaken.

ATTENDANCE IDENTIFIER will be replaced with OUTPATIENT ATTENDANCE IDENTIFIER, which is the most recent approved national information standard to describe the required definition.

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	OUTPATIENT ATTENDANCE IDENTIFIERS