contact assessment

The initial interaction between a person needing care and a health and/or social care agency in the UK, during which basic personal information is collected and verified, the nature of the individual’s presenting concerns/difficulties is established, and a brief initial assessment is made of whether the person has greater health and social care needs, at which time a referral can be made or the individual can undergo further assessment.

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Mr Roberts said he would write to the health trust to ask them to examine their systems of first contact assessment with patients who attended in crisis for the first time.

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Once someone had been in touch we had to do an initial contact assessment in two days, which was not usually a problem.

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