URGENT AND EMERGENCY CARE ACTIVITY IDENTIFIER is an identifier allocated by an Urgent and Emergency Care Service to provide a unique identifier for each URGENT AND EMERGENCY CARE ACTIVITY TYPE.

These are:

• Emergency Care Attendances (where the URGENT AND EMERGENCY CARE ACTIVITY TYPE is National Code 'Emergency Care Attendance at an Emergency Care Department type 'Major Emergency Care Department'' or 'Emergency Care Attendance at an Emergency Care Department Type Mono-specialty 'Emergency Care Department'’ or ' Emergency Care Attendance at an Emergency Care Department type 'Urgent Treatment Centre'’)
• Same Day Emergency Care Attendances (where the URGENT AND EMERGENCY CARE ACTIVITY TYPE is 'Same Day Emergency Care Attendance')
• Urgent and Emergency Care Extended Care Episodes (where the URGENT AND EMERGENCY CARE ACTIVITY TYPE is 'Urgent and Emergency Care Extended Care Episode')
• Hot Clinic Attendances (where the URGENT AND EMERGENCY CARE ACTIVITY TYPE is 'Hot Clinic Attendance'). Note this is only valid for piloting purposes. 

Usage in Emergency Care Data Set Version 4:

For an Emergency Care Attendance, URGENT AND EMERGENCY CARE ACTIVITY IDENTIFIER is the same as the EMERGENCY CARE ATTENDANCE IDENTIFIER in previous Emergency Care Data Sets (CDS V6-2-3 Type 011 - Emergency Care CDS), but the format/length is extended to max an20 characters for Emergency Care Data Set Version 4.

For a Same Day Emergency Care Attendance, the URGENT AND EMERGENCY CARE ACTIVITY IDENTIFIER should carry a system-generated unique identifier for each Same Day Emergency Care Attendance undertaken by the Health Care Provider.

For an Urgent and Emergency Care Extended Care Episode, the URGENT AND EMERGENCY CARE ACTIVITY IDENTIFIER should carry the URGENT AND EMERGENCY CARE EXTENDED CARE EPISODE IDENTIFIER (which is a system generated unique identifier for each Urgent and Emergency Care Extended Care Episode).

There should be no overlap or duplication of identifiers between URGENT AND EMERGENCY CARE ACTIVITY IDENTIFIERS generated by the Urgent and Emergency Care Service’s ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD system used to record each of these types of activity.

For example, it is not permissible to generate the same URGENT AND EMERGENCY CARE ACTIVITY IDENTIFIER to be used for both an Emergency Care Attendance and a Same Day Emergency Care Attendance. Each ACTIVITY IDENTIFIER must be unique within the Health Care Provider and ORGANISATION SITE IDENTIFIER (OF TREATMENT).

This data element is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	URGENT AND EMERGENCY CARE ACTIVITY IDENTIFIERS