Mental Health - Information Sets

In the context of health and social care a dataset (or information set) is a set of data items that support a specific purpose. IMHIP have developed two datasets in2006 with the support of two multidisciplinary working groups in collaboration with the National Clinical Dataset Development Programme (NCDDP).

These were:

The Information Core for Integrated Care (ICIC) -An encounter and intervention record for community specialist mental health teams.
The Psychiatric Inpatient Clinical Discharge Summary (PIC-DSIS) - An Information bundle to support transitions in care.

Both datasets were issued for formal consultation and approved as national standards for use in mental health by the National Clinical Dataset Development Programme (NCDDP) at their board meeting on 15th September 2006. The datasets are now published in the Health and Social Care Data Dictionary: www.datadictionary.scot.nhs.uk

These datasets were also test implemented in mental health services and the evaluation reports for these are available below:

ICIC Report link to an adobe pdf file 1.03mb
ICIC Executive Summary 53.7kb