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Mandatory report modifications 2024-25
1. VADC
A. The following change was made to allow for the recording of Indirect Support activities. Adding these visits will result in VADC reporting for Counselling and Non Residential Withdrawal. NB Support Activities are not allowable under Care and Recovery Co-ordination.
A new Visit Type of Indirect Spport has been added under the visit reasons Alcohol and Drug and KickStart:
When it is selected there is only one form to complete, AOD Visit Detail:
New contact mode categories have been added to cater for the different indirect support categories allowable under VADC rules:
B. The VADC selection criteria have been modified to provide stricter conformance with VADC reporting rules. All activities must now be consistent with the type of referral selected for each appointment / visit. This has been made possible by the changes made in the previous release where referrals are being automatically closed when episodes are complete. There is no visual change to the user interface.
C. KickStart Induction, Bridging Support and Counselling sessions will all now be reported under the KickStart funding codes. This requires the creation of a new new visit type for KickStart called KickStart Bridging Support that would appear when the Visit Reason KickStart is selected by clinicians. All exiting Bridging Support visits created for KickStart referrals will be migrated to this new visit type. The forms available under the visit type will remain the same.
D. The Sex at Birth check column has been removed from the VADC Check report as it is no longer required
E. The VADC Event Closure has been modified to resolve a bug preventing treatment type from being displayed
F. The DTAU Report printout has been modified to fix a bug which prevented new columns from being included
2. QHAPDC Inpatient reporting
A. A bug which caused 2024-25 files to be generated with 2023-34 names has been fixed
3. HMDS report has been updated to be compliant with new guidelines
A. Change to coding of for Mode of Separation
B. Change to Gender coding
4. VINAH / S10 changes
1. VINAH reports have had numerous changes to minimise validation errors when uploading to VADC. Also site-based inclusion / exclusion criteria have been updated. These changes have not resulted in any changes to the user interface. Selection criteria have also been updated to be consistent with the new Consolidation date of 24 August.
2. The VINAH report has been modified to include Gender coding mapping as separate from Sex mapping. This change has not resulted in any changes to the user interface
3. Selection criteria for the S10 report have been changed to provide as close a match as possible in VADC reporting
A. The following change was made to allow for the recording of Indirect Support activities. Adding these visits will result in VADC reporting for Counselling and Non Residential Withdrawal. NB Support Activities are not allowable under Care and Recovery Co-ordination.
A new Visit Type of Indirect Spport has been added under the visit reasons Alcohol and Drug and KickStart:
When it is selected there is only one form to complete, AOD Visit Detail:
New contact mode categories have been added to cater for the different indirect support categories allowable under VADC rules:
B. The VADC selection criteria have been modified to provide stricter conformance with VADC reporting rules. All activities must now be consistent with the type of referral selected for each appointment / visit. This has been made possible by the changes made in the previous release where referrals are being automatically closed when episodes are complete. There is no visual change to the user interface.
C. KickStart Induction, Bridging Support and Counselling sessions will all now be reported under the KickStart funding codes. This requires the creation of a new new visit type for KickStart called KickStart Bridging Support that would appear when the Visit Reason KickStart is selected by clinicians. All exiting Bridging Support visits created for KickStart referrals will be migrated to this new visit type. The forms available under the visit type will remain the same.
D. The Sex at Birth check column has been removed from the VADC Check report as it is no longer required
E. The VADC Event Closure has been modified to resolve a bug preventing treatment type from being displayed
F. The DTAU Report printout has been modified to fix a bug which prevented new columns from being included
2. QHAPDC Inpatient reporting
A. A bug which caused 2024-25 files to be generated with 2023-34 names has been fixed
3. HMDS report has been updated to be compliant with new guidelines
A. Change to coding of for Mode of Separation
B. Change to Gender coding
4. VINAH / S10 changes
1. VINAH reports have had numerous changes to minimise validation errors when uploading to VADC. Also site-based inclusion / exclusion criteria have been updated. These changes have not resulted in any changes to the user interface. Selection criteria have also been updated to be consistent with the new Consolidation date of 24 August.
2. The VINAH report has been modified to include Gender coding mapping as separate from Sex mapping. This change has not resulted in any changes to the user interface
3. Selection criteria for the S10 report have been changed to provide as close a match as possible in VADC reporting
